Faculty Syllabus

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. Mandatory orientation: Complete Online Orientation Quiz by noon, Friday of the first week of class to avoid being automatically dropped from the course. Always check your ACC email, which is the linked email to the system where you will receive updates and communication from your instructor.
2. Labs:  All Lab activities are graded by completion. Everyone will have differing responses to the questions. I do encourage you to answer for yourself truthfully to benefit from these exercises, but you are not required to share all info. Lab assignments are provided and submitted online through Blackboard. All entries are private and cannot be viewed by other students. An assignment may take a week to complete, so schedule accordingly.
3. Video Quizzes: You will be required to view 15 short videos on health-related topics, then complete 15 video quizzes. Video quiz questions that accompany the videos are on Blackboard. Most students prefer to answer as they watch the videos. Once you are sure of your answers, please select the corresponding video quizzes located on Blackboard under “Video Quizzes.” All quizzes must be submitted via Blackboard by their respective due dates.  These are repeatable. Once you open the quiz, you must save and submit your answers.
4. Discussion Boards:  You are asked to comment on a health related article  from an outside source of your choosing and comment on 2 articles submitted by your classmates.  There are Discussion Boards in Modules 2 and 4.
5. Exams:  All exams are to be taken through Blackboard. You may take them anywhere since Covid-19 has forced us to close testing centers. You are STRONGLY encouraged to use the Study Guides, but you may not use them while testing. The “SGs” consist of multiple-choice questions corresponding with your textbook. They are located on Blackboard. The exams are taken directly from the Study Guides. The chapter breakdown of all exams is as follows:

        Exam 1 Covers chapters 1, 2, 3, 4,                                       

        Exam 2 Covers chapters 5, 6, 7, 8,

        Exam 3 Covers chapters 9, 10, 11, 12,                   

        Exam 4 Covers chapters 13, 14, 15, 16

        Exam 5 Covers chapters 17, 18, 19, 20

***Each exam has 50 questions. You may retest each exam ONCE if you wish to improve your grade. ***

Grades:  The point values for each component are listed below. You can track your grade by finding the grade range in which your Total points earned falls. There is no tricky math.

Individual Component point values:

Orientation                    10 EC points

Video Quizzes             300 points  (15 x 20pts each)

Labs                            100 points (2 x 50pts each)

Exam 1                        100 points      

Exam 2                        100 points

Exam 3                        100 points

Exam 4                        100 points

Exam 5                        100 points

Discussion Boards      100 points   (2 x 50 pts)

Total                           1000 points

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:         

Deadlines are not test dates- The deadline is the LAST day you may complete the work NOT the ONLY day. You may finish work as early as you like!

     THE FINAL DEADLINE IS A HARD DEADLINE DUE TO COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS.

*** Sticking to the deadlines is preferable, but if you are having trouble meeting a deadline, please just reach out to one of us (instructor/assistant) for an extension BEFORE THE DEADLINE PASSES.

EXTRA CREDIT:  If you need a boost to your grade after trying your best on the coursework, there are two Extra Credit opportunities. These are both optional, of course.

• Exit Exam- this is a short quiz covering basics about health. The quiz is worth 15 extra points toward your final point total.
• Documentary Report & Review- You may do a two-page paper covering a health-related documentary of your choice from the free website Top Documentary Films.com. This paper will give you an additional 50 points on your final point total:  You must provide a short summary of the documentary, report five things you have learned from the documentary, and review whether you would recommend it with detail about why or not? Papers should be double-spaced, 1inch margins, 12pt Times New Roman font.

FINAL GRADES: Final grades are available online the Thursday after the semester ends. Access this information using the “online” link on the right side of the ACC main web page. Log in as a student and you will find information including your grades under “unofficial transcript” or “grades by term.”

Course Policies:

 ALL students will complete ALL required course components to receive a grade.  Students are expected to learn course material.

Withdrawal:  It is a student’s responsibility to withdraw from a course.  Instructors are allowed to withdraw students, but students must not rely on their instructor to withdraw them if they wish to withdraw.  The following may be grounds for me to withdraw a student from this course:

1. Missing orientation deadline.
2. Not completing required assignments by their deadlines. Any deadline extension request should be in writing or via email prior to the deadline for the assignment for which the extension is being requested. Extensions will be granted ONLY if there are extenuating circumstances and documentation should be provided.

Incomplete: An incomplete (I) will be granted to a student in rare circumstances. Generally, to receive a grade of I, a student must have completed all examinations and assignments to date, be passing, and have personal circumstances that prevent course completion that occur after the deadline to withdraw with a grade of W. If you are granted an incomplete, you will have one additional semester to complete the missing work.

1. Text/Materials:  

Taking Charge of Your Health; Diane Hales; 19th edition. Cengage Learning.

ISBN 9780357136799. This class is part of the First Day Access program. This means the textbook is automatically billed at a discount rate along with tuition. Students may access the textbook or opt out by the census date through the Course Materials tab on Blackboard.

Text Chapters (1-20)  Taking Charge of Your Health

Module 1

• Chapter 1: Taking Charge of Your Health                        
• Chapter 2: Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being        
• Chapter 3: Caring for Your Mind                                       
• Chapter 4: Stress Management                                       
• Chapter 5: Personal Nutrition       

Module 2                                     

• Chapter 6: Weight Management and the Obesity Epidemic  
• Chapter 7: Physical Activity and Fitness                         
• Chapter 8: Communicating and Connecting                   
• Chapter 9: Sexual Health                                                   
• Chapter 10: Reproductive Options     

Module 3                               

• Chapter 11: Sexually Transmitted Infections                 
• Chapter 12: Major Diseases                                     
• Chapter 13: Infectious Diseases                                      
• Chapter 14: Consumer Health                                          
• Chapter 15: Addictive Behaviors and Drugs  

Module 4                  

• Chapter 16: Alcohol                                                            
• Chapter 17: Tobacco                                                          
• Chapter 18: Personal Safety                                             
• Chapter 19: A Healthier Environment                              
• Chapter 20: A Lifetime of Health         

Video Quizzes

1. The brain changing benefits of exercise
2. Sleep is your superpower quiz- 2
3. What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's
4. Alcohol and your brain
5. What you should know about vaping
6. How do contraceptives work
7.  The surprising reason our muscles get sore          
8.  How talking about sex can end STIs         
9.  This could be why you are depressed or anxious
10.  How to make stress your friend
11.  Teach every child about food
12. Microbiome diversity in the gut
13. Everything you know about addiction is wrong
14. The psychology of PTSD
15. Can we eat to starve cancer

Course Discription:

Personal Health is a fundamental course in the principles and the problems of healthful living, as they apply today. This course emphasizes assessment of health status and provides a body of information that can lead to rational choice in lifestyle. Over fifty medical and health experts share their knowledge of critical health issues impacting our country currently. Great care has been taken to provide students with the most up-to-date information available today on personal health. The knowledge gained from this course should assist students in making appropriate choices towards a healthier lifestyle.

Departmental Objectives:

• To learn the fundamentals of Personal and community health
• To understand how community health practices affect one personally and those around them
• To understand how Kinesiology relates to a healthy individual lifestyle
• To learn how to evaluate one’s general health and recognize steps to improving one’s health.