Academic Catalog

KINS 51: PERFORMANCE ENHANCING SUBSTANCES IN SPORT & EXERCISE

Foothill College Course Outline of Record

Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading Value
Effective Term: Summer 2024
Units: 4
Hours: 4 lecture per week (48 total per quarter)
Advisory: Not open to students with credit in PHED 51.
Degree & Credit Status: Degree-Applicable Credit Course
Foothill GE: Area IV: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Transferable: CSU
Grade Type: Letter Grade (Request for Pass/No Pass)
Repeatability: Not Repeatable

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students will demonstrate an ethical analysis of performance-enhancing substance use in sport
  • Demonstrated knowledge of presented performance-enhancing substances and their known efficacy in terms of enhancing sport performance

Description

Current and historical issues, as well as general social, biochemical, pharmacological, and behavioral information related to performance enhancing substances in sport and exercise. Areas to be addressed include, but are not limited to: theories of addiction, populations, social implications, anabolics, blood doping, diuretics, nutritional ergogenic aids, social and recreational drugs, stimulants, emerging science and technologies, and drug testing.

Course Objectives

The student will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a thorough knowledge base of performance enhancing substances and how they relate to sport, exercise, and contemporary society
  2. Understand and apply theories of addiction used to examine performance enhancing substance use/abuse
  3. Analyze substance definitions, populations, substance use/abuse, and substance effects—physical, psychological, and social
  4. Analyze and communicate critical thought regarding current social and behavioral issues relating to performance enhancing substances in sport and exercise and broader contexts
  5. Classify and differentiate drug types, symptoms, and performance effects, both short- and long-term
  6. Distinguish and compare social populations and recreational drug use
  7. Examine and compare issues surrounding drug testing, state and federal laws, and sport testing

Course Content

  1. Introduction and history of performance enhancing drugs
    1. Sport/exercise history, issues, and population analysis
    2. Why the demand?
    3. Ethics, morality, legality
    4. Social implications of substance use/abuse
  2. Theories of addiction
    1. Medical model
    2. Psychodynamic model
    3. Social model
    4. Moral model
    5. Bio-psycho-social model
  3. Anabolics
    1. Definition, issues, use, and populations
    2. Anabolic-androgenic steroids
    3. Beta-2 antagonists
    4. Growth hormone
    5. Human chorionic gonadotropin
    6. Effects on performance
    7. Greater societal effects/issues
  4. Blood doping
    1. Definition, use, issues, population, and history
    2. Erythropoietin
    3. Effects on performance
    4. Social implications/issues
  5. Diuretics
    1. Definition, use, issues, and populations
    2. Effects on performance
    3. Social implications/issues
  6. Narcotic and non-narcotic analgesics and depressants
    1. Definition, use, issues, and populations
    2. Narcotic analgesics
    3. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids
    4. Hypnotics, anxiolytics, and neuroleptics
    5. Beta-adrenergic antagonists
    6. Effects on performance
    7. Social implications/issues
  7. Nutritional ergogenic aids
    1. Definition, use, issues, and populations
    2. Macronutrients and metabolic intermediates
    3. Creatine as an ergogenic supplement
    4. Sodium bicarbonate
    5. Herbals
    6. Effects on performance
    7. Social implications/issues
  8. Social and recreational drugs
    1. Definition, use, issues, and populations
    2. Alcohol
    3. Marijuana
    4. Effects on performance
    5. Fact vs. myth
    6. Social implications/issues
  9. Stimulants
    1. Definition, use, issues, and populations
    2. Amphetamines
    3. Caffeine
    4. Cocaine
    5. Ephedrine
    6. Effects on performance
    7. Social implications/issues
  10. Drug testing
    1. Methodology and history
    2. Legal context
    3. Issues and populations
  11. The future of performance enhancing substances in sport and exercise
    1. Issues and concerns
    2. Supply and demand—the marketplace
    3. Emerging science and technologies

Lab Content

Not applicable.

Special Facilities and/or Equipment

When taught as an online or hybrid class students will be required to have email and internet access.

Method(s) of Evaluation

Methods of Evaluation may include but are not limited to the following:

Unit quizzes
Mid-term exam
Final exam
Academic research paper

Method(s) of Instruction

Methods of Instruction may include but are not limited to the following:

Lecture
Discussion
Cooperative learning exercises
Electronic discussions/chat
Independent study
Demonstration

Representative Text(s) and Other Materials

King, Tony. Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports. 2014.

Although this text is older than the suggested "5 years or newer" standard, it remains a seminal text in this area of study.

Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments

  1. Chapters from text
  2. Supplemental articles
  3. Reporting on empirical academic research
  4. Reflections on how to change a substance-abusing culture
  5. Synthesis of historical and social relevance to performance enhancing drugs in sport and exercise

Discipline(s)

Physical Education