Fall 2019 Course Syllabi

• Discussion Board Participation: In the course outline for the class, ten different weeks are identified as “Discussion” weeks. During these weeks, the instructor has posed a discussion question on the course Blackboard page for the given week. Each student is responsible for participating in the discussion by posting his/her own response to the discussion question (3 points), and engaging in discussion with at least one additional student (2 points). Discussions are open until the exam covering the discussion material closes (e.g. discussion over Chapters 6-7 will close when Exam #3 closes). • Health Behavior Change Poster: Each student will complete a health behavior change project during the course of the semester. This will consist of identifying a personal health behavior that could be changed or modified to improve one’s health. The student will do research on this behavior, will implement a change of the behavior for one week, and then will reflect upon this behavior. Each of these steps should be documented. Each student will create a conference style poster based off of information gathered through the Health Behavior Change Project. The poster will be the size of a standard sheet of computer paper. PowerPoint will be the primary tool used to make these posters. A more detailed description of the poster is available on Blackboard. Posters should be in the drop box by November 10, 2019, at 11:59pm. Course Outline Week Topic Chapter Discussion Quiz Exam Due Date Week 1 What is Health Psych? 1 Discussion #1 Quiz #1 Week 2 Systems of the Body 2 Quiz #2 Exam #1 Chapters 1-2 September 8, 2019 Week 3 Health Behaviors 3 Discussion #2 Week 4 Health-Related Behaviors 4 Quiz #3 Week 5 Health-Compromising Behaviors 5 Discussion #3 Exam #2 Chapters 3-5 September 29, 2019 Week 6 What is Stress 6 Quiz #4 Week 7 Moderators of Stress 7 Discussion #4 Quiz #5 Week 8 Project Discussion Discussion #5 Exam #3 Chapters 6-7 October 20, 2019 Week 9 Using Health Services 8 Quiz #6 Week 10 Patient-Provider Relations 9 Discussion #6 Quiz #7 Week 11 Management of Pain/Discomfort ***HCB Poster Due*** 10 Exam #4 Chapters 8-10 November 10, 2019 Week 12 SCT and Body Image Management of Chronic Illness 11 Discussion #7 Quiz #8 Week 13 Psych Issues in Illness (Tuesdays with Morrie) 12 Discussion #8 Quiz #9 Week 14 Heart Disease and 13 Discussion #9