| Credits | 1 |
| Restrictions | No 2026 2025 2024 Instr perm req during Drop/Add |
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| Core Area | Sciences |
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| Liberal Arts Practices |
Faculty Profile for Professor Martinez
What makes a drug recreational or medicinal? Why do different drugs stimulate, relax, change our perceptions, and affect us all so differently? When is drug use considered problematic? Students consider drugs and drug use from start to finish. Students explore: How a drug is made, how it works in the brain, how addiction is diagnosed and treated, and how various systems and societies approach drugs. Students who successfully complete this seminar receive credit for CORE S156 and satisfy the Core Sciences requirement.
Julia Martinez is the current chair of the Psychological and Brain Sciences department. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology, and her area of study is addiction science and statistics. She spent her undergraduate years at Dartmouth, her graduate years at University of Missouri, and her graduate internship at the Medical University of South Carolina. The first in her family to attend college, she is always happy to discuss the ups and downs of college with any student.