Undergraduate Minor in Drug Studies
Overview and Requirements
The Drug Studies Minor enables students to develop a critical perspective on humankind’s diverse relationships with drugs from historical and global perspectives. A variety of courses currently offered in different departments at NMSU provide students a broad and diverse overview of drug uses and abuses, drug control policies, and opportunities for fieldwork and internships in agencies and organizations in the drug treatment or enforcement fields. (See attached course descriptions)
Students complete the Drug Studies Minor by taking one required course and an additional 15 credits, 9 of which must be upper division. No more than 9 credits may be earned in any one department and no more than 6 credits may be taken on a pass/fail basis. If the class is graded, students must earn a C or higher. Students may not earn more than 6 credits total in independent studies or special readings courses and must receive approval from the minor advisor to count these credits.
Courses
Required Course:
- ANTH 336 - Drugs, Culture and Society (3 cr)
Students must choose 15 additional credits from among th ecourses listed below and additional courses as approved (see note below list):
- CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 395G - Brewing, Society and Science
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE 432 – Issues in CJ: Global Perspectives on Youth and Drug Use
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE 432 - Issues in CJ: Global Drug Use and Policy
- HEALTH SCIENCES 300 - Drugs and Behavior
- HEALTH SCIENCES 484 - Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Control
- GOVERNMENT 420 - Special Topics in Public Policy: Drug Policy
- GOVERNMENT 422 - Border Security Policy
- PSYCHOLOGY 303 – Community Psychology
- PSYCHOLOGY 325 - Health Psychology
- INDEPENDENT STUDIES or PRACTICUM COURSES as appropriate (see note below)
Note: Independent studies, practicum, fieldwork, or internship courses in a variety of disciplines may be approved for the Drug Studies Minor if these courses involve students in learning principally about drugs. Additional courses may be approved for the minor in consultation with the minor advisor. To qualify 1/3 of the course content must be about drugs. For approval for independent studies and to obtain a list of agencies or organizations that could serve as internship sites, please contact Minor advisor, Prof. Christine Eber, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 646-2448, Breland Hall 314, ceber@nmsu.edu