Class Detail

Engages the social, historical, and economic trajectories of the drugs, illicit and licit, botanical and pharmaceutical within U.S. society. Through an examination of case studies, and other texts of encounter, explores how international, state, and local actors mediate as interlocutors between globalized interests, local knowledges, and the molecules we have increasingly come to know, ingest, and incorporate.

Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior sociology, anthropology, biology, biotechnology, biochemistry and molecular biology, community studies, critical race and ethnic studies, global and community health B.A. and B.S., Latin American/sociology combined, and global information and social enterprise majors, proposed majors, and minors.

All students can enroll - restriction review is lifted in summer. If you receive an error message, email summer@ucsc.edu for a permission number to enroll.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
TuTh 01:00PM-04:30PM	Online	Staff	07/28/25 - 08/29/25