Curriculum Infusion

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Curriculum infusion is a way for faculty to help educate students about the risks associated with high risk drinking choices by incorporating information and issues related to alcohol use into their class.

Minigrants are available for professors who incorporate lectures, papers, projects, discussions and/or group assignements that address critical health and social issues of alcohol and drug use while teaching and reinforcing a subject's skills and concepts. That may entail one lecture, a 3 week unit or the substance abuse prevention content may wind thematically through a course. Curriculum infusion is not a program that provides speakers on substance abuse for courses, nor is it a program where drug prevention staff or student peers speak in classes when faculty are absent. However useful these activities may be, they do not engage the faculty in the design and delivery of prevention content for their courses which are essential elements of curriculum infusion.
Faculty have substantial potential for impacting student attitudes and behavior, including attitudes and behavior toward alcohol and other drugs. Faculty who participate in Curriculum Infusion programs can become creative and enthusiastic proponents of campuswide prevention efforts.

For more information, please contact Lorie Morris at lorie.morris@sa.ucsb.edu or 805-893-4081.




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