Impaired/Distracted Driving.

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to increase teacher candidates' awareness of common contributors to impairment and distraction and their effect on a person's ability to operate a vehicle safely. Topics include pharmacology and toxicology of alcohol, signs/symptoms of commonly abused drugs, distractions (such as cell phones, entertainment and climate controls, and passengers), and state of mind, fatigue, and drowsiness. Related statutes, national standards for collecting data from traffic accidents, and field sobriety testing, arrest, prosecution, and adjudication will also be examined. Graduate credit requirements are described in the course syllabus. If this class is taken at the 500 level, it is a graduate course and expectations for student performance are at an advanced level. Evaluation of course requirements is more rigorous than at the lower division section of this course.