Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Explores health from a holistic perspective, in which health is viewed as physical, psychological, and social well-being. Considers genetics, environment, personal health behaviors (such as diet, exercise, stress management, and drug use), socioeconomic status, health care delivery systems, and aging with the intent to improve students' abilities to evaluate health information. Breadth-Science.

COURSE DETAILS:

2 hour Lecture, 1 hour Tutorial (12 weeks)

INTRODUCTION

Explores health from a holistic perspective, in which health is viewed as physical, psychological, and social well-being. Considers genetics, environment, personal health behaviors (such as diet, exercise, stress management, and drug use), socioeconomic status, health care delivery systems, and aging with the intent to improve students' abilities to evaluate health information. Students with credit for BPK 140 may not take this course for further credit. Breadth-Science.

EVALUATION

There will be lecture quizzes done randomly during the semester. The material is based on the previous lecture. You must be present in class to get credit for the quiz. It cannot be made up outside of the class. The midterms will be multistage with a collaborative component. The midterms and final will be based on lecture material (including Word files, PowerPoint files, and oral communication in lecture). The format will include fill in the blanks, short answer, and essay.

Midterms are short answer questions, fill in the blanks, and essay

Midterm 1: Internet lectures  1 - 4    Thursday    week     5  15  %
Midterm 2: Internet lectures  5 - 8    Thursday    week   10  20  %
Final exam (comprehensive)  25 %,  Date TBA, room TBA
Assignment is worth 10 %
Tutorial grade is worth 15 %.

MAKE-UP EXAMS

All make-up exams will be worth the same percentage and cover the same material. The format may be different and will not be given prior to the exam.

MISSED EXAMINATION

A missed exam can only be rewritten if medical evidence of inability to write the exam is presented within 4 days of the scheduled exam. Please contact the instructor if you have missed or are unable to attend a scheduled midterm or final exam. You must also download and complete a Health Care Provider Statement from the SFU web site and hand it in to the course instructor.

The grading profile is standard for BPK

A+	>92	C+	65-69
A	87-91	C	60-64
A-	82-86	C-	55-59
B+	78-81	D	50-54
B	74-77	F	<50
B-	70-73

Your final exam is covers the entire semester with questions in similar format to the midterm PLUS the last question (answered in a separate exam booklet).

The last question will be worth about 30 % of the final exam total. You will be asked to health and wellness manage a person. I will determine the age, gender, and health of the person. Remember that if the subject is young and female, or old and male, the majority of health and wellness recommendations will very similar: diet, exercise etc. When you make a health and wellness recommendation, you should also state why it is good for the subject.

The grading profile is standard for BPK and may be scaled. Scaling of grades may be necessary, particularly to enable instructors to incorporate novel pedagogical approaches in their teaching and assessments that may produce unusual distributions of percentage scores when first implemented, or to ensure equivalency between courses or instructors, without unfair advantage or disadvantage to students. Accordingly, BPK instructors have the right to scale grades.  Additionally, grades are subject to approval by the Chair of BPK, who may require that grades be scaled, particularly in cases where the distribution of grades is not normal, or where effective discrimination between learners has not been achieved.  For this reason, students should not assume that a specific percentage score will be always associated with a specific letter grade. In the case of scaling of grades, student ranking within a class will not be affected. See http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/teaching/t20-01.html for more details.

Please remember that often factors such as ethnicity, sex, gender, body composition, religion and perhaps other politically sensitive issues are relevant to exercise, health, and/or physiology. I do not wish to offend anyone in class and please lets discuss it if I do. Also remember, what is true for the population may not be true for the individual. This holds even from a genetic deterministic perspective.

There are no extra assignments one can do to increase their mark so please do not ask for any.

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Week	Date	Day	Topic
1	Jan 13	Thursday	Medical History Components of Wellness
2	Jan 20	Thursday	Infectious Disease: pathogens, lifecycles, transmission, treatment
3	Jan 27	Thursday	Immunity: lines of defense, allergies, immune responses, immunization
4	Feb 3	Thursday	Sexually Transmitted Infections: HIV lifecycle, transmission, treatment, costs
5	Feb 10	Thursday	Midterm 1
6	Feb 17	Thursday	Chronic Diseases: CV, Cancer, Diabetes: causes, treatments
	Feb 24	Thursday	READING BREAK
7	Mar 3	Thursday	Nutrition: Energy, Macronutrients, Micronutrients, Deficiencies, Canada Guidelines, GMO, Vegetarianism
8	Mar 10	Thursday	Physical Fitness: Components, Benefits, Prescription
9	Mar 17	Thursday	Weight Management: Classification, adipose tissue, Energy Balance, Hunger/Satiety, Causes, Risks, Treatments, Eating Disorders
10	Mar 24	Thursday	Midterm 2
11	Mar 31	Thursday	Alcohol: types, metabolism, Effects, Dependence Tobacco: effects, causes of addiction, stop smoking methods
12	Apr 7	Thursday	Sexuality: bases, psychosocial, anatomy, physiology, behaviour, contraception

TUTORIAL SCHEDULE

Week	Tutorials Starting	Tutorial description	Notes
1	Jan 13	No tutorial
2	Jan 20	Wellness material	Wellness balance wheel
3	Jan 27	Infectious Disease	Case study
4	Feb 3	Immunity	Vaccination records
5	Feb 10	Midterm – no tutorial
6	Feb 17	Midterm reflection
	Feb 24	READING BREAK
7	Mar 3	Chronic disease	Cancer risks
8	Mar 10	Nutrition	Intake quality/quantity
9	Mar 17	Physical Activity	FITT
10	Mar 24	Midterm – no tutorial
11	Mar 31	Weight management
12	Apr 7	Assignment presentation	Health article/body composition

Assignment

Comment on a health/wellness-related article published in a newspaper/internet

In length, the article is less than ½ newspaper page

Assignment Rules

Word processed.
Include your name, BPK 140, and a title at top.
Times New Roman font, 12 point font, and 1.5 line spacing.
Length is no greater than one page, >24 and < 31 lines, and < 400 words.
Article is stapled to top left corner.
Put your name on the article and on your comment page.
Your health and wellness article will come from a printed newspaper or online article.
Include which health/wellness area(s) the article is addressing
Your assignment article must have been printed between the first day of class and the day prior to the hand in time.
If you use an internet site, print the web page and do not copy and paste into a Word file.
You will hand your assignment to the TA and then give a 2.5-3 min presentation in tutorial.

ASSIGNMENT OPTION : You can replace the assignment with a personal body change/fitness project.
You still require talk about your project in tutorial and hand in a word-processed copy.

Academic honesty and student conduct

Academic honesty is a condition of continued membership in the University community.

Academic dishonesty, including plagiarism or any other form of cheating is subject to serious academic penalty, i.e., failure on an assignment, failure in a course, suspension or expulsion from the University.

The University codes of student conduct and academic honesty are contained in policies T10.01 and T10.02 which are available in the Course Timetable and on the Web via http://www.reg.sfu.ca.

It is the responsibility of the student to keep their BPK course outlines if they plan on furthering their education.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Understanding the health consequences of humans and their interaction with other life forms.

Understand how to protect or improve health with respect to chronic diseases and the effects of diet, exercise.

Understand the health consequences of smoking and alcohol.

Understand sexuality and contraception.

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING: