Catalog Course Description

Psychoactive drugs — stimulants, sedatives, psychedelics, analgesics, antidepressant and antipsychotic pharmaceuticals, and others — powerfully impact the human mind and brain. Understanding these substances and their effects is a truly transdisciplinary endeavor: anthropology, botany, cell biology, chemistry, clinical medicine, physiology, psychology, public policy, sociology, governmental law, and more. This class explores that territory, emphasizing the complex nature of drugs as both medicines and poisons, and emanating from plants and fungi having deep historical relationships with humankind.

Summer Term

4.5 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 10 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 2 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Fall Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Spring Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 5 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Neuroscience C62/Letters and Science C30T