Student Conduct
Weatherford College has the responsibility and authority to formulate and enforce rules of student conduct that are appropriate and necessary to further the educational goals of the College and its students. Students who enroll must accept responsibility for their behavior and for their ultimate success in higher education. To create a positive climate for learning, Weatherford College expects all students to abide by a Code of Student Behavior. To summarize:
Students must maintain high standards of scholastic honesty. Violations of the Code of Student Behavior include but are not limited to cheating on tests or assignments, plagiarism, and collusion; violence or threats of violence; loud or abusive language; and failure to comply with the direction of College officials and instructors.
Grade Information
Class participation & outside assignments consist of appropriately participating in class discussion, working in groups or in class projects, completing all class assignments, and completing and bringing to class open book quizzes, glossaries, and internet searches and papers.
Exams will consist of multiple choice, true/false, and short answers.
Attendance
Your attendance is the biggest predictor of your success. Attendance at every class is expected. If you miss a class it is expected that you will contact your instructor. If for some reason you expect to miss a lot of class it is recommended that you contact your instructor to discuss possible options.
- Identify the components of the autonomic and central nervous system and explain their general functions in relation to drug use and misuse; explain the physiological, psychological, and social effects of drugs or addictive behavior on the major systems of the body; identify classes of psychoactive drugs; list the schedules and explain concepts of current and 20th Century drug legislation; and define and accurately use terms common to drug use, misuse, abuse, and dependency.
- Describe drugs from a pharmacological perspective.
- Be aware of basic pharmacological concepts. Some of these concepts are acute-chronic distinction, the ED/LD ratio, drug tolerance, and drug fate.
- Describe factors that influence drug action. The factors of route of administration, dose, potency and purity, and drug mixing.
- Indentify the models of drug dependence, such as the dependence/reinforcement model, and the classic addiction model.
- Explain the classification of psychoactive drugs and their effects.
- Identify and list legal drugs and their uses and effects.
- Present the consumption and effects of alcohol, looking at the social cost of accidents, disease, production, and relationships.
- Describe the history, and medical harm of tobacco.
- List the types and affects of psychotherapeutic drugs; sedative/hypnotics, tranquilizers, antipsychotics, and antidepressants.
- Demonstrate an understanding of marijuana, LSD, and club drugs.
- Present the uniqueness of marijuana, the rates and patterns of usage, who uses it, and the acute and chronic effects of marijuana.
- Explain the “gateway” hypothesis: progression to more dangerous drugs.
- Discuss the medical use of marijuana.
- Describe the subjective effects of hallucinogenic drugs, genetic damage and LSD, and continuance rates and frequencies of use of LSD.
- Show an understanding of club drugs in today’s society.
- Show an understanding of heroin and the narcotics.
- Discuss the use and abuse of narcotics today, showing the patterns of use.
- Understand the user’s perspective.
- Explain the relationship between heroin and AIDS.
- Demonstrate an understanding of controlled opiate use programs.
ADA Statement:
Any student with a documented disability (e.g. learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) may contact the Office on the Weatherford College Weatherford Campus to request reasonable accommodations. Phone: 817-598-6350 Office Location: Office Number 118 in the Student Services Building, upper floor. Physical Address: Weatherford College 225 College Park Drive Weatherford, TX.