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Wollheim
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E-Mail:    pwollhe@boisestate.edu
Phone:    426-3532
Office:    C222

Office Hours:  Tuesday and Thursday - 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
                           And by Appointment

Syllabi and Courses - SPRING 2008:
COMM 487 - Studies in Media Theory
COMM 501 - Selected Topic in Research Methods
COMM 593 - Thesis
COMM 595 - Readings and Conference
COMM 598 - Graduate Seminar

WORKSHOPS:
COMM/HIST/POLI 294 - Arab Israeli Conflict in Film
COMM/NURS-B/HLTH STUD/PSYCH 294 -Advanced Certified Crisis Worker Prep (CCW2)
COMM 294/494, Section 1074/1751 - Suicide in Idaho - Behind the Headlines
COMM 294/494, Section 1075/1750 - Adolescent Suicide Prevention
COMM 294/494, Section 1092/1754 - High School in Films
COMM 294/494, Section 1750 -  Adolescent Suicide Prevention
COMM 294/494 Section  1090/1752 - Survey of Japanese Anime Films
COMM 294/494, Section 1753 - Mormons in the Movies
COMM 494/594, Section 1084 - History of Quebec Feature Film 1965 - 1985

Wollheim Power Point Presentations:
1.  Coming Together to Save Lives
2.  Elderly Suicide in Idaho
3.  Good Protein/Bad Protein
4.  Suicide Prevention Gatekeepers
5.  Suicide Prevention Planning for Schools
6.  Survivor Groups
7.  Community Partnering for Suicide Prevention

CLASS ASSIGNMENT Links:
Internet Fears, Crimes, and Sanctions

Other LINKS of Interest:                                                                        
Anomie After Durkheim
Critical Issues
The Arbiter
The Onion
Curriculum Vitae for Peter Wollheim

Subject Specialties:  Mass Media, Mass Media/Social Change, Photography, Philosophical Perspectives of Inquiry and Communication, News Reporting and Writing, Feature Writing

Research Interests/Activities:  Photojournalism, History and Aesthetics of Mass Media, Modernism and Modernity, Psychoanalysis, European Post-Structuralism, Suicide Prevention, Metacommunication, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Professor Bio:
     Beginning his career as a photojournalist and art writer,  Peter Wollheim received his M.A. from Simon Fraser University (1978) and Ph.D. in Communication from McGill University (1991).  Previous projects include published photoessays on childbirth, the treatment of geriatric patients in a psychiatric hospital, the aftermath of gold mining on the landscape in British Columbia, and the history of Idaho’s historic State Penitentiary. 
     Current academic research projects include the role of money in family communication (with special emphasis on disinheritance), the role of alcohol as a proximate factor in completed suicides, and adolescent suicide prevention.  Recent investigative reporting interests center around patient abuses in private nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, expose of U.S. combat troops to depleted uranium munitions, and interlocking directorships in the Treasure Valley.  Long-term ambitions include writing a mystery series set in Boise (tentatively titled “The Potatoe Skin Murders”) and explorations of lenseless digital photography. 
     Dr. Wollheim serves as the Co-chair of the Idaho Commission on Suicide Prevention.  He has presented papers and posters regarding suicide at several national and international conferences.   He is a founding board member of the Idaho Suicide Prevention Action Network, and established the nation’s first Certified Crisis Worker preparation program on the BSU campus.  His efforts have earned him a Jefferson Award for Public Service, a BSU Foundation Scholar Award for Service, and commendations from the Idaho State Planning Council on Mental Health and the Idaho Chapter of the National Association for Mental Illness. He has also won two First Place Investigative Reporting Awards from the Idaho Press Club. 
     Dr. Wollheim often prefers to spend his spare time with what others dismiss as “the lower forms of life.”  An avid organic gardener, he practices apiculture (bee-keeping) and vermiculture (worm raising), as well as culturing yeast for purposes of homebrewing wine and beer.  On the stream or lake, he studies insects and other forms of aquatic organisms appropriate to fly tying and fishing. 
     The centerpiece of Dr. Wollheim’s office is a rocking chair, especially provided for students.  It’s his small protest against the rising tide of depersonalization in higher education.  Feel free to come visit.