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Folsom Lake College
Health Science Course Assignments |
This assignment page for the Folsom Lake College 3 unit course in Health Science is to be used with www.flc.losrios.edu/~klimes. This course starts January, 2009. Email us at edu@learnwell.org with any questions. Review the online supplementary information page at www.flc.losrios.edu/~klimes/orientation.htm.
Orientation for the spring 2009 course is on January 20, 2009 from 6:00-7:00 pm on the Folsom Lake College campus at Folsom in room FL3-165. Attendance is highly recommended. If you are registered and listed in the class, start your first assignment as soon as possible. Also look over all 16 assignments and if the class does not look to you like something worth studying, consider another class. Once you start, you need to be committed to help you finish successfully. The professor is here to help you in this.
Go to www.d2l.losrios.edu and log in. Nearly all of your coursework will be via Desire2Learn.
One of the first things to do: update your email address on D2L (Desire to Learn). Otherwise you will not receive my emails. Do that now.
Students may volunteer for Teaching Assistants to serve as Discussion Coordinators. Teaching Assistants, instead of participating in the class discussion, respond helpfully to 5-10 student submissions a week. For that part, they get full marks on the discussion assignment and a certificate. If you are interested, email the professor.
A. Basics
1. Rudy Klimes, PhD, MPH serves as adjunct professor at Folsom Lake College and teaches this online course.
2. Every assignment submission needs to give the following in the subject line or the heading: 1) your first and last name, and 2) the module number (A1, A2 etc) that you are submitting, in that order. Example: Joe Dow, A1.1. Check the Blackboard Announcements weekly on in order to get the detailed up-to-date instructions for your next weekly assignment. The Blackboard Announcement is the professor's weekly letter to you.
3. The assignments must be submitted the professor's Digital Drop Box (DDB) via Blackboard by Mondays. The professor comments and grades the work usually within 24 hours. There may be times that the response may take longer. The dates given below are due dates after which the work will be counted as late and be discounted. You are encouraged to submit the assignment anytime in the preceding week. Students need one year of extensive internet experience to take this course. Students who do not submit assignments for three consecutive weeks may be dropped from the class.
4. Submit modules via DDS. Answer the 5 listed questions for each written assignment. The questions should be labeled. Keep a copy for your own records. Use 100-200 words for each of the five parts. Carefully edit your submission to meet the course requirements. Be specific, using data and numbers where possible. Assignments deal mainly with your own health, and in some cases, with the health of someone close to you. You need to start each module at least one or two weeks before it is due in order to be able to report meaningfully. The verbs in each assignments are italicized, respond to each in carefully designed sections or paragraphs. When the answer includes a number of parts, write each in a separate paragraph.
5. Each answer needs to consist of 1-3 carefully designed paragraphs, each with an topic sentence and 3-7 well-reasoned supporting sentences that enlarge on or explain the topic sentence. Some of the supporting sentences may refer to supporting research or information and need to include documentation as to author, title and year. Give data when ever possible. Do not cut and past from other sources. When an assignment has a number of parts, present each part in a paragraph.
6. Postings of 60-100 words are to be made on the designated Blackboard bulleting board every week. Keep track of your postings and email a list of submission topics, a summary of them, and conclusion to the instructor at the designated dates.
7. You need to do two postings weekly by Thursdays on the Blackboard Discussion Board, in the category of your choice. One posting shall be a new one as described below, the other a response to posting by someone else in the course. Make your own posting relevant to the issues of the current module as a QA, CC, TS or CT as explained below. Always indicate which approach you use at the beginning of each posting. Make each posting meaningful, not just a general line or so. This is the class-discussion portion of the course. Do not give just your opinion, all postings need to be backed up by evidence or references to source materials.
QA. QUESTIONS on the topic under study that you personally want to have answered and that grows out of your experience, text-book reading or module web-site. If you can, give tentative answers to the above question, or suggestions on how one could arrive at an answer.
CC. COMMENTS on the topic under study and the behavioral changes in your lifestyle that you are considering or that you are making in light of this new insight or knowledge.
CT. CRITICAL THINKING responses to the issues presented at the end of each textbook chapter.
TS. TRUE STATEMENTS on the topic that for you highlights the central issue under study. That statement should be your own or from a source other than the textbook or module website. Give source and explain the statement.
8. Grades given are A (excellent, 91-100%), B (good, 81-90), C (satisfactory, 71-80), D (passing, 61-70), F (failing, 0-60). To receive an A or "excellent", students must include in their answers unique and insightful components that show a deeper grasp of the assignment. The normal or minimum fulfillment of the assignment will be graded as a B or C.
B. Weekly Assignments:
All weekly Assignments (A1-16) are due Mondays, at midnight at the latest. The Discussion Postings can be done anytime but are due weekly by Thursdays.
Each week you may start your assignment on the Tuesday morning following the submission of your assignment and then deal with the health lifestyle issues that you exhibit the next four days.
Assignments A1-A16 carry 50 points each, or 80% of the grade. Each weekly assignment will consist of at least five paragraphs of 4-7 complete sentences . In each question, notice the word YOU. Be sure to read the textbook chapter and the below linked webpage for each assisgnment.
Section 1. Taking Charge of your Health
Note: Do NOT take the tests on the linked websites. Limit each of the 5 answers in an assignment to about 100-120 words. Start each paragraph with a carefully developed topic sentence.
| A1 Jan 26, 2009 | Healthy Change
Ch 1, pp 3-34 Bulletin Board |
1. Write one specific health goal for this term, using
the SMART model.
2. Give a specific example of how preparation, action and maintenance can improve your health. 3. Give two examples of how lotus of control works in your life. 4. What did you learn from the results of your 12-section wellness Inventory? 5. Map your family health history. |
| A2 Feb 2 | Well-being Ch 2, pp 35-56 Bulletin Board |
1. Give three examples of how sleep affects your wellbeing. 2. Assess your emotional health. 3. Assess your spiritual health. 4. What steps will you take to improve your spiritual health? 5. Describe the steps you will take to forgive someone who hurt you. |
| A3 Feb 9 | Stress Management & MentalHealth Ch 3,4. pp 57-104 Bulletin Board | 1. Give two examples of events that cause you eustress and
distress. 2. Describe how stress may affect you physiologically. 3. Develop a stress reduction plan for yourself. Give two example of its use. 4. What can you do to reduce the stress of people around you? 5. What methods of relaxation have you used this week? How did they work? |
| T1, Feb 12 | Test 1 | Go to Quiz Section and take the test at the appointed time. |
Or an alternative assignment for January 26 for those who may get their textbook late: Click on
http://www.infinitewellnesssolutions.com/health-calcuators.html and submit the results and interpretations of 5-10 tests.
There is no class on February 16, President's Day.
Section 2: Healthy Lifestyles
| A4 Feb 23 | Fitness
Ch 5, pp 107-144 Bulletin Board |
1. Explain how you would use PRICE with an acute
knee injury. 2. How do you use the 3 principles of exercise: overload, FITT, reversibility? 3. Calculate and analyze your BMI and waist circumference. 4. Describe an adequate flexibility program for yourself. 5. Describe an adequate muscular fitness program for yourself. |
| A5 March 2 | Nutrition Ch 6, pp 145-180 Bulletin Board | 1. Take and analyze the Self-Survey: How Healthful is
your Diet? 2. Describe Your Personal Health Action Plan for Better Nutrition. 3. Compare the nutrition facts of three breakfast cereals and choose the healthiest. 4. What changes would it require for you to be a vegetarian? How would that affect your health? 5. Analyze Some Fast-Food Choices and select the healthiest for you. Be specific. |
| A6 Start March 2 and submit March 9 | Project 1 | Do, monitor and give data biweekly on 11 health activities: 1. Resting HR, 2. Exercise HR, 3. BMI, 4. BP, 5. Minutes walked/run, 6. Minutes of 2 mile walk/run, 7. Pushups in 2 min, 8. Fruit/vegie cups, 9. Fat intake in g, 10. Alcohol/Tobacco consumption, 11. waist circumference.. (March 9: state goal, data, hindrances, and method) |
| A7 March 16 | Weight Management Ch 7, pp 181-206 Bulletin Board |
1. Describe the difference between hunger and appetite
in your life. What hormones affect each? 2. Describe the weight management traps that affected you or could affect you. 3. Develop a weight management plan that you can use throughout your life. 4. Analyze yourself as to possible eating disorders. 5. What health risks could be associated with your over/under weight? |
| T2, March 19 | Test 2 | Go to Quiz Section and take the test at the appointed time. |
Section 3. Avoiding Health Risk
There is no class on April 6, Easter.
| A8 March 23, | Relate/Sexuality
Ch 8-10, pp 207-300 Bulletin Board |
1. Describe one of your close relationships and show how
you can improve it. 2. Describe one of your dysfunctional relationships and show how you can improve it. 3. Evaluate your codependency and describe how you can overcome it. 4.Describe your position to marriage and how it changed in the last 5 years. 5.Describe and evaluate your action plan for responsible sexuality. |
| A9 March 30 | Addiction Ch 11, pp 303-338 Bulletin Board |
1. Review your drug history, both legal and illegal. 2. Describe your caffeine use, its effects and hazards. 3. What risks did/could you face from stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens and inhalants? 4. Analyze three common advertisings of drugs. 5. How would you help a friend who is addicted? |
| A10 April 14 | Alcohol & Tobacco Ch 12,13 pp 339-392 Bulletin Board |
1. Evaluate your drinking habit and list any possible health
risks you are taking. 2. As you see it, list the negative and positive consequences of you alcohol use or your abstinence. 3. Take the Self-survey: Do you Have a Drinking Problem and analyze the results. 4. Explain how alcohol is or is not a drug. 5. What effect did alcohol use among your family/friends have on you? |
| T3, April 17 | Test 3 | Go to Quiz Section and take the test at the appointed time. |
Section 4: Protecting your Health in Context
| A11 April 20 | Prevention
Ch 14, pp 395-434 Bulletin Board |
1. Describe your risk factors for heart disease and your
preventive actions.
2. Describe your risk factors for stroke and your preventive actions. 3. Describe your risk factors for cancers and your preventive actions. 4. Describe your risk factors for diabetes and your preventive actions. 5. How can you lower your blood cholesterol through lifestyle changes? |
| A12 April 27 | Infections Ch 15, 16, pp 435-486 Bulletin Board |
1. Where do you come across the various agents of
infection?
2. What will you do to protect yourself against various infectious diseases? 3. What will you do to protect yourself against sexually transmitted infectious diseases? 4. Analyze your risk of your major infectious diseases. 5. Apply the basic guidelines for sexual health to your life. |
| A13 May 5 | Health Care Ch 17, pp 487-514 Bulletin Board |
1. Take and analyze your vital signs in light of the
normal range.
2. Describe and analyze 4 self-care screening tests that you did as a result of reading chapter 17. 3. Describe and analyze how you take care of your mouth. 4. Write out questions you should ask your doctor and suggest possible answers. 5. Describe and evaluate your personal health care provider, including finances. |
| A14 May 12 | Lifetime of Health Ch 18-20, pp 515-581 |
1. What hormonal changes have you experienced and what
will you experience.
2. Discuss the risk factors of aging and your preventive measures. 3. Complete and discuss the main parts of an Advance Directive. 4. How have you dealt with grief over a person or other loss and evaluate it. 5. Explain what you do or should do to stay healthy longer. |
| A15 May 14 | Summary of Bulleting Board Submissions | 1. Number of new submissions. Number of responses to
others.
2. One-line summaries of all submissions. 3. Summaries of new main insights from the Bulletin Board. |
| A16 May 19 | Project 2 | Final project report with weekly data since March 16, gained insights and conclusion. |
| T4, May 20 | Test 4 | Go to Quiz Section and take the test at the appointed time. |
Resources:
A1 See the Life Experiences Survey and Type A Personality Assessment Wellness Lifestyle Questionnaire http://www.infinitewellnesssolutions.com/health-calcuators.html
A2
See Behavior Modification: Stages, Processes, and Techniques for Change
A3
See the Stress Vulnerability Questionnaire Goals and Time Management Stress Management
A4
See Cardiorespiratory Endurance Assessment Resting Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Assessment, Exercise readiness Questionnaire Ecardiorespiratory Exercise Prescription Exercise Heart Rate and Caloric Cost of Physical Activity Muscular Strength and Endurance Assessment Strength-Training Program Muscular Flexibility Assessment Posture Evaluation Flexibility Development and Low Back Conditioning Programs Assessment of Skill-Related Components of Fitness
A5
See Nutrient Analysis Healthy Diet Plan Hydrostatic Weighing for Body Composition Assessment Body Composition Assessment, Disease Risk Assessment, and Recommended Body Weight Determination Estimation of Daily Caloric Requirement, Stage of Change, and Exercise Program Selection Calorie-Restricted Diet Plans Behavioral Goals for Weight Management
A6
Participate in the VeryFit Clinic Plan.
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R.
Klimes, PhD, MPH.
January 18, 2009 |