Anthropology 216: Reducing Alcohol Abuse on College Campuses: Addressing Student Health through Public Interest Anthropology

Faculty: Francis Johnston, PhD, (Dept. of Anthropology)
Kate Ward-Gaus MS Ed (Office of Health Education)
Stephanie Ives MA (Office of Health Education)

Alcohol abuse among college students is a serious problem across the United States. This seminar will combine anthropological tools and public health strategies to: 1) contextualize the phenomenon historically and culturally; 2) encourage students to critically analyze existing alcohol prevention and intervention approaches; 3) use the University of Pennsylvania campus as a local case study/field site to investigate the problem and generate solutions for it; 4) move from theory to action through drafting a feasible proposal addressing alcohol reduction on Penn’s campus or engage in the implementation of an existing proposal/project.