As college students wrap up the year, many reflect on what they learned in the classroom and what it means for their lives.

At the University of Notre Dame, a hugely popular course offering has very real life implications.

Special correspondent Mike Serra reports for our ongoing series at the intersection of health and arts, part of canvas.

From Animal House in the 80s to the more recent hangover films.

Oh, it's like college.

Pop culture and advertising's depiction of drinking is playing out on college campuses to a much more alarming

degree than the Toga parties of the past. Nearly half of college students

say they drink and 30% say they binge drink according to a

recent survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Alcoholism.

Here on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, they're taking a more academic and intellectual

approach in addition to traditional counseling and disciplinary action.

The Psychology Department is teaming up with the Film, television, and theater department on a course that teaches students why they think drinking is so cool and why it's probably not.

Societarily, people seem to condone your actions because you are drunk.

Drunk on film is a full credit in person and online course with over 150 students on the

wait list each semester. Psychology professor Henri Ventor and film and TV professor Ted Mandel lead the students in their critiques of popular films featuring heavy drinking and its social and health consequences.

So what we want to focus on and what we like research a little bit into is kind of this effect of depressed on depressants

obviously since alcohol is a depressant. Along with pop culture

favorites the films include classics like it's a wonderful life and even some

cartoons as students grew up with like Beauty and the Beast.

Professor Mandel believes film, TV and advertising have long cultivated the

students acceptance of drinking as part of normal life.

Where does total absence fit acceptance of drinking as part of normal life.

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