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Anyone wishing to download a copy of the online HEA150 course syllabus (pdf) should click here. Students need access to Adobe Acrobat software to read the syllabus. Acrobat Reader is available for free for those who do not yet have the software installed on their computers. If there is a problem with the downloading process, email the instructor, and a copy of the syllabus will be sent to you.
| Course Number: HEA 150 | Instructor: Trish Root |
| Course Title: Health and Human Sexuality | Phone: (206) 528-4593 |
| Credits: 5.0 | e-mail: troot@sccd.ctc.edu |
| Time: Class is completely online | Office: Wellness Ctr #0932B |
| Office Hours: MWF 11a-12p |
Students must complete the online orientation prior to completing coursework. The on-line orientation can be accessed at the following website address:
The online orientation directs the student through a variety of activities to familiarize him or her with the HEA150 course components. As part of these activities, the student is to report specific information back to the instructor via email. The student may send separate email messages for each activity, or send one message with all the activity information included, whichever is preferred.
In addition to the above website, each student will have access to Angel, a courseware management system, which will be used to complete course quizzes and also course discussions. Students may also submit weekly homework using Angel. To access the Angel website, students will need their student identification numbers. Initially, the student's nine-digit identification number will serve as both his or her login user name as well as password. Any student wishing to change his or her password should record the information in an easily accessible place in the event the password is forgotten. The Angel website is below:
After logging into Angel, the student should look for the HEA150 link and click on that link. Upon doing so, the course website, containing all reading and weekly work, should be viewable. There are tabs near the top of the window that read, "Course Website" (the default page), "Calendar" (a calendar showing when coursework is assigned and due), "Homework, Quizzes" (eleven folders for each week of the quarter; each folder contains links for the student to submit homework, complete quizzes, and access discussions), and "Discussions" (links to each week’s discussion, as well as the "Orientation Discussion")
The student who needs more information on how to work with Angel should contact the Distance Learning Office at 206-527-3738, or email at distance@sccd.ctc.edu
This class encompasses topics associated with a multidimensional view of health, including personality, stress management, communicable and non-communicable disease, nutrition, health-related fitness, human sexuality and multicultural issues applied to the above topics. Course content is structured around, presented through and conducted within the interactive distance learning, or e-learning, environment.
HEA150 Health and Human Sexuality is an 11-week course. Each "week" begins on Tuesday and ends on the following Monday. For example, the second week begins on Tuesday, January 12, and ends on Monday, January 18. The class is structured in this manner so students may have the weekends to focus on weekly coursework. Except for a component in the weekly discussion,* and for the midterm and final exams**, all class work is due by the end of each Monday. Students are encouraged to pace themselves with respect to homework i.e. avoid waiting until Monday evening to meet weekly due dates. NOTE: STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLETING WORK ON TIME. Computer difficulties and server problems happen to everyone, so it is advised students plan ahead for such unexpected issues.
*Answers to weekly discussion questions are to be posted using the Angel software system each Friday.
**Look in "Midterm" and "Final Exam" headings for specific due dates.
By the end of the course the student will:
North Seattle Community College serves a diverse student population with a wide variety of educational backgrounds and goals. This Total Body Training class fosters and promotes the following NSCC Essential Learning Outcomes:
 | Knowledge |
| Personal and Social Responsibility, including lifelong learning and personal well-being |
There are no textbooks for this course. All required weekly reading is online, available through the course "Lessons" page.
The reading assignments are based on the instructor's lecture notes from in-class HEA150 courses. In addition to instructor's lecture information, there are also embedded external website links within the online reading. The web links within the lecture information are labeled as (R) for required web reading, or (O) for optional web reading. There are also sections labeled "Educational Enrichment," which include more optional readings.
IMPORTANT INFO: Some students find reading easier when they print out the materials, but please note there is a very small per person print limit within the campus computer laboratories and library. Students may print pages beyond the allowed limit but they will have to pay for these pages separately. Students can pre-pay for printing services at the Cashier’s Office, located on the second floor of the College Building. The Library has coin print machines. Printer-friendly versions of required reading have been created, though required readings from external websites are not included in these versions.
Please note: The class online reading is continuously in a state of flux as health information changes with time. Unpublished, the content will not read like a book. The instructor hopes students will find this abbreviated form of reading helpful for both learning and saving money (no textbook purchase). At the end of the quarter, if you feel purchasing a text would be preferable over reading the information based on lecture, please provide your feedback on this subject. Thank you!
The course "Lessons Page" is probably the most important website for this class, as it contains all required reading and class homework. The Lessons Page is what students see when they click on the HEA150 link in Angel. The Lessons Page, in addition to being accessed via Angel, can also be accessed directly at the below websites:
via Angel at:
or accessed directly at:
http://facweb.northseattle.edu/troot/HEA150/lessons.htmEvaluation |
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| Points | ||
| Midterm | 50 | |
| Final Exam | 50 | |
| Discussions (10) | 100 | |
| Assignments (4) | 40 | |
| Quizzes (5) | 25 | |
| Search & Reports (10) | 50 | |
| Total | 315 |
Each of the evaluation items are described in more detail, below
Students will be using the Angel software system to complete course quizzes.
There will be five (5) true/false, multiple choice quizzes due at the end of every other week (due on Mondays), starting with the second week (due in weeks two, four, six, eight, and ten). Students are required to complete all five quizzes, worth five points each. The entire five points will be awarded provided the student completes the quiz by the due date. The purpose of these quizzes is for students to evaluate their learning progress through an online testing environment. The true/false and multiple choice questions seen on quizzes will contain content found on the midterm and final exams. Quizzes submitted late will be subject to a 10% per day penalty. Quizzes submitted more than one week late will not be accepted.
There will be a 50-point “take home” midterm examination, distributed on Wednesday, February 10. The exam will consist of true/false, multiple choice, and short answer questions. Midterms will be due at the end of the day on Sunday, February 14. Any exams submitted late will be subject to the following point penalties:
| 0-2 hours late | -3 points |
| 2-4 hours late | -5 points |
| 4-12 hours late | -10 points |
| 12-24 hours late | -15 points |
| 24-36 hours late | -20 points |
| 36-48 hours late | -25 points |
Any midterm submitted more than 48 hours
late will not be accepted.
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A 50-point “take-home” final exam will be distributed via email the morning of Thursday, March 18. The cumulative final will be due by the end of Tuesday, March 23. Approximately 1/3 of the final exam points will be based on the first half of the course, while 2/3 of the exam points will be based on the last half of the course. Students will NOT be allowed to make up or reschedule the final exam unless an emergency develops or the instructor has been notified prior to the test. Final exams submitted late will be subject to the same point penalties as described for the midterm exam, above. Any exam submitted more than 48 hours late will not be accepted. Students should save all work, and keep copies of their sent emails containing that work, as computer issues do sometimes arise.
To complete a discussion, the student will first need to find the appropriate discussion link on the class
Lessons Page. For example, if completing the first week discussion, the student will need to click on the "Discussion" link located among the materials listed for the first week.The student will then read any materials assigned as part of the discussion. Students are encouraged to read these materials early in the week so discussion answers will be ready by each Friday.
To participate in the discussions, students will need to access the
Angel software system. Once the student accesses the Angel website and logs in, he or she should click on the HEA150 website and then look for the "Discussions" tab near the top of the screen. Upon clicking on the "Discussions" tab, the student should look for and click on the appropriate week’s discussion. For example, if the student is accessing the third week discussion, he or she should click on the "HEA150 Discussion #3" link. Once that link is accessed, the student should see three questions posted by the instructor, and—unless he or she is the first to answer the questions—replies from other students. The student should then click on each of the instructor’s links and reply to the questions asked by the end of each Friday. Answers to discussion questions are worth up to a total of six (6) points, or two points per question.The final step of the discussion process requires students to respond to their peers’ answers and comments using the
Angel software. Students are to read through others’ answers and post at least four comments or questions to others by the end of each Monday. Responses to other students are worth up to a total of four (4) points, or one point per response.Any late answers and responses will be subject to a 10% per day late penalty. Students are expected to answer all questions posed to them by others during the discussion, as doing so is necessary for effective interaction. Discussion answers and/or responses posted more than a week late will not be accepted.
Weekly discussions are worth a total of 10 points.
Discussions are EXTREMELY important in this class. The weekly discussions are not necessarily ways to solve issues, but are opportunities to learn about how we all view such issues differently and to work more effectively in groups. Hopefully, through class interaction, the discussions will get us thinking more about our own philosophies, choices, behaviors and lifestyles, as well as the philosophies, choices, behaviors and lifestyles of those around us.
Students are encouraged to complete Assignments using the Angel software system but may also submit homework via email.
Four (4) assignments are described every other week at the website, starting with the third week (assigned in weeks three, five, seven and nine). They are to be completed by the dates published on the website. Assignments received late will be subject to a 10% per day penalty. Assignments submitted more than one week late will not be accepted. Students should save all work, and keep copies of their sent emails containing that work, as computer issues do sometimes arise. Students may email their Assignments to the instructor, or use
Angel to send the work. NOTE: A variety of Assignment options are provided for students. Since these options may be very different from each other, they may have varying due dates. Please check Assignment due dates early.Students are encouraged to complete Search & Reports using the Angel software system but may also submit homework via email.
Ten weekly "Search and Reports" are included in this course to familiarize students with site-specific information pertaining to weekly health topics. Due at the end of each week (Monday), the Search & Report is worth five points, with late work being subject to a 10% per day penalty. Reports submitted more than one week late will not be accepted. Reports may be turned in via e-mail or completed using the
Angel software system. Students should save all work, and keep copies of their sent emails containing that work, as computer issues do sometimes arise. There is no Search & Report due during the eleventh week.Students are encouraged to save all work before sending. Students with MS Word are asked to send their homework via attachment either through email or through
Angel. If the student does not have MS Word but wants to use another word processing program, he or she is asked to save the file as Òtext onlyÓ and use the Ò.txtÓ file extension after the file name. For example, a midterm saved in a non-MS Word program would be saved as Òtext onlyÓ with a name like, Òmidterm.txt.Ó NSCC computer labs are equipped with MS Word. Students may type homework and exam answers into the body of an email message or in the Angel message box, but the practice of attaching files to email is a skill students can use outside of the classroom, so are encouraged to do so. Students should save all work, and keep any copies of sent emails containing that work, as computer issues do sometimes arise.Students can see the dates homework is assigned and due by clicking on the "Calendar" tab in
Angel. Students can also see an at-a-glance view of the homework due throughout the quarter by accessing the class "Assignment Log." The Assignment Log can be seen at the top of the Lessons Page in Angel, or it can be accessed directly at: