PSYC 52.04 Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Corporate and Environmental Influences

Chronic health conditions (like cancer and heart disease) kill the majority of people worldwide. Those diseases result, in part, from use of products—e.g., tobacco, alcohol, & convenience food—that are produced and marketed worldwide by multinational corporations.  This course centers around how corporations influence unhealthy product consumption during childhood and adolescence. This course describes the theoretical basis for these influences, the science used to establish corporate products as a cause of youth behavior, and how governments try to limit the influence through regulation. The study will cover tobacco, alcohol, drug use, homicide/suicide, food/obesity, and risky sex.

Instructor

Sargent

Prerequisite

PSYC 1

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC

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Offered

• Fall