North Seattle College
Division of Science and Mathematics
Course Title: Health and Human SexualityInstructor: Trish Root
Course Number: HEA 150Phone: (206) 934-4593
e-mail: Office Hours: TTh 10-11am, W 12-1pm
Office: Wellness Center #0932B
Credits: 5.0
Canvas: Finding HEA150 Online
Students are to access HEA150 course materials and complete homework by using the Canvas courseware management system. To access the Canvas website, students will need their student identification numbers. The student’s login is his or her student ID number, and the password will also be the first six letters of his or her last name. If the last name is fewer than six letters, the student is to re-type enough letters of the last name until all sixs spaces are used. For instance, if the student’s last name is “Lee,” he or she would type in a password of L-E-E-L-E-E (six characters). If the student’s last name is Smith, he or she would type in S-M-I-T-H-S. 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 Canvas website is below:
After logging into Canvas, the student should look for and select the HEA150 class under the “Courses” tab. Upon doing so, the course website, containing all reading and weekly work, should be viewable on the home page. There are tabs near the left side of the window that read:
- “Home” (where you should see “HEA150 Weekly Lessons,” which contain links to all class reading and homework)
- “Announcements” (there will be weekly messages to students posted via this tab)
- “Assignments” (where all the discussion work and written homework in the course must be posted/submitted; please note: all the work can be viewed by scrolling through the “HEA150 Weekly Lessons” on the “Home” tab, as well)
- “Grades” (students may see their points)
- “People” (those enrolled in HEA150)
- Chat (the instructor will not be actively using Chat but students should be able to chat with each other if they make arrangements with each other to do so)
- “NSCC Library Resources” and “Page One Writing & Language Center” are resources to help students in any of their classes
Need help with Canvas? If so, the campus E-Learning office has information below:
In the event the student does not have Canvas access, HEA150 course materials can also be accessed directly at the below link:
Getting Started: Online Orientation
Students must complete the on-line orientation as soon as possible at the start of the quarter. The orientation website will be available by 12pm on Monday, September 22, and can be found via Canvas by clicking on the orientation link in the first week’s course materials. Orientation is due Thursday, September 25.
In the event students do not have access to Canvas, they can also find the orientation online here:
Course Description
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.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course the student will:
- Describe and evaluate--through on-line group discussion, quizzes, homework, and/or examinations--how choices, behaviors, habits and lifestyles can impact wellness.
- Identify and use, through on-line instruction and individualized practice, several techniques for stress management.
- Identify advantages and disadvantages associated with nutritional assessment tools.
4. Identify specific risk factors, signs, and symptoms associated with communicable and noncommunicable disease, through online reading, discussion, quizzes, homework, and/or exams.
5. Obtain passing grades on all written assignments, discussion activities, and written midterm and final exams.
6. Identify various contraceptive methods, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as their effectiveness levels for pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention.
North Seattle College Essential Learning Outcomes
North Seattle 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
Reading Assignments
There are no textbooks for this course. All required weekly reading is online, available through the course website’s “Lessons Page,” listed above. 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. Required web link readings are labeled as, “(R)” while those links marked, “(O)” are optional web reading. There are also sections labeled "Educational Enrichment," which are also optional readings.
PRINTING READING MATERIALS: Some students find reading easier when they print out the materials, but those using the college’s computing labs should know there is a 3-cent per copy charge for black and white printing. Students can save money by printing on both sides of a paper, so should ask computing lab staff about how to save money this way. For more about campus printing limitations, students should travel to the below website:
For information on how to pre-purchase paper to print, call 206-934-3630, or ask someone in the computing lab, Room #IB 3303 (third floor of Instruction Building).
Printer-friendly versions of required reading have been created and listed at the top of each HEA150 reading webpage, 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!
Course Schedule
HEA150 Health and Human Sexuality is an 11-week course. Each "week" begins on Tuesday and ends on the following Monday. For example, the first week begins on Tuesday, September 23, and ends at the end of the day (midnight) on Monday, September 29. The class is structured in this manner so students may have weekend time to focus on weekly coursework, though they are encouraged to pace themselves by distributing the reading and work throughout the week.
Syllabus
This syllabus is available online toward the top of the HEA150 Lessons Page. Look for the syllabus link.
Evaluation
Grading for HEA150 is based on the following items and respective point values:
Points
Midterm50
Final exam50
Quizzes (5)50
Discussions (10)100
Assignments (2)40
Internet Search and Reports (10)50
Total340
Each evaluation item listed above is described in more detail, below.
Quizzes
There are five (5), ten-point true/false, multiple choice quizzes available via Canvas due at the end of every other Monday, starting with the second week (due in weeks two, four, six, eight, and ten). The purpose of these quizzes is for students to evaluate their learning progress via an online testing environment. The true/false and multiple choice questions seen on quizzes will be similar to content found on the midterm and final exams. Students will have TWO attempts to complete quizzes. Quizzes submitted late will be subject to a 10% per day penalty. Quizzes submitted more than one week late will not be accepted.
Midterm
There will be a 50-point midterm examination, available via Canvas on Wednesday, October 29. The exam will consist of true/false, matching, multiple choice, and short answer/essay questions. Midterms will be due at the end of the day on Sunday, November 2. Students will have two chances to complete the true/false, matching, and multiple choice items, but short answer/essay items will only be graded once. Students will NOT be allowed to make up or reschedule the midterm exam unless an emergency develops or the instructor has been notified prior to the test. Any exams completed 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.
Final Exam
A 50-point, cumulative final exam will be available on Friday, December 5, and will be due by the end of Tuesday, December 9. 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 have two chances to complete the true/false, matching, and multiple choice items, but short answer/essay items will only be graded once.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, since computer issues do sometimes arise.
Plagiarism and Cheating
While students are encouraged to use the class online materials to answer midterm and final exam questions, they should understand any work "copied and pasted" from anywhere on the internet or from other copyrighted or copyright-able sources, including the class reading materials, or from any other student, will be considered plagiarism/cheating and subsequently will not be accepted. The same policy exists for class homework. The North Seattle College Library offers online information about plagiarism. There are many other plagiarism references and tutorials available on the web. Any student wanting additional assistance should contact the instructor.
Any student caught plagiarizing or cheating will receive a zero on the submitted activity. If more than one student is involved in any one instance, student names will be forwarded to the Dean of Math & Science and/or the Vice President of Student Services. A repeat offense will result in a grade of zero.
Discussions
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. There is no reading required for the first week discussion, but the remaining nine discussions will require reading prior to posting answers to questions on Canvas.
To participate in the discussions, students will need to access the Canvascourseware system. Once the student logs into the Canvas website, he or she should select the HEA150 class, and then click on the “Assignments” tab on the left side of the screen. Look for the appropriate week’s discussion and click on it. The student should then see three questions, and may also very well see replies from other students. To answer each question, the student is to read each question and click on the “Reply” link for each. Answers to each of the three questions are to be posted by the end of each Friday (if a holiday falls on a Friday, answers will be due at the end of Saturday). Answers to discussion questions are worth up to a total of six (6) points, or two points per answer.
The final step of the discussion process requires students to use the weekend, through Monday, to respond to their peers’ answers and comments using the Canvassoftware. 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.
Assignments
Two (2) 20-point Assignments are described at the class website, assigned during the third week and seventh weeks. Each Assignment is to be completed and placed into the appropriate Canvas dropbox by the assigned due date. 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 that work, as computer issues do sometimes arise. 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.
Internet Search and Reports
Ten weekly “Search and Reports” are included in this course to familiarize students with information pertaining to weekly health topics. Due at the end of each 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. Each Search & Report is to be turned in using the appropriate Canvasdropbox. Students should save all work, and keep copies of their sent emails containing that work, as computer issues do sometimes arise.
Submitting Homework
Students are encouraged to save all work before sending. Students with MS Word are asked to attach their homework via Canvas. 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 “text only” or “text,” using the “.txt” file extension after the file name. For example, a Search & Report saved in a non-MS Word program would be saved as “text only” with a name like, “report.txt.” The student may also save homework as .pdf files. NSCC computer labs are equipped with MS Word. Students may also attach “rtf” or “pdf” files. Students may type homework and exam answers into the body of the Canvas homework 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. Please do NOT use the Canvas email system to send homework. Students doing so will be asked to resubmit homework via the appropriate Canvas dropbox.
If for some reason the Canvas system is not operating, a student can send the instructor homework via email, directing work to: .
Homework Calendar
Students can see the dates homework is assigned and due by clicking on the “Calendar” tab in Canvas. Students can also see an at-a-glance view of the homework due at the following website:
The last day to drop a course or to change to audit status is Friday, November 14.
Links to North Seattle College Student Services
Disability Services:
Counseking Services:
E-Learning Student Support:
Advising:
Online Registration Tools:
Tutoring in writing, mathematics, accounting, biology, chemistry, world languages:
Women’s Center:
Safety & Security:
GRADING SCHEDULE
At the end of the quarter, each student’s points are tallied and caluclated as a percentage of the total grade. That percentage would then be translated to a decimal grade. For instance, a student earning 86% of class points would earn a decimal grade of 3.1. Below please find the equivalent decimal grade, letter grade, and point percentage values.
Decimal GradeLetter GradePercent
4.0A96-100
3.9A94-95
3.8A-93
3.7A-92
3.6A-91
3.5A-90
3.4B+89
3.3B+88
3.2B+87
3.1B86
3.0B85
2.9B84
2.8B-83
2.7B-82
2.6B-81
2.5B-80
2.4C+79
2.3C+78
2.2C+77
2.1C76
2.0C75
1.9C74
1.8C-73
1.7C-72
1.6C-71
1.5C-70
1.4D+69
1.3D+68
1.2D+67
1.1D66
1.0D64-65
0.0D0-63
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