Credits: 3 credits Instructor’s Contact Information

Health Education Specialist

Health Outreach, Promotion and Education
Credits: 3 credits
Instructor’s Contact Information:

8 Lafayette Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Phone: 848-932-1965

E-mail: eamayafe@echo.rutgers.edu

Office hours by appointment on

Tuesday and Friday 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

via e-college chat, Skype, phone, or in-person

“The goal of social justice education is full and equal participation of all groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. Social justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.” (Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, ed. Adams, M., Bell, L., and Griffin, P. 1999.)

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  Analyze the degree to which forms of human difference shape a person’s experiences and perspectives on the world
  
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  Analyze issues of social justice across local and global contexts
  
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  Explain and be able to assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidence,
  

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  Understand different theories about human culture, social identity, economic entities,
  

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  Apply concepts about human and social behavior to particular questions or situations
  
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  Define and Identify socio-cultural, institutional, environmental and political barriers, as well as individual barriers, to health, health care, and healthy behaviors
  
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  Define and Identify socio-cultural, institutional, environmental and political barriers, as well as individual barriers, to health, health care, and healthy behaviors
  
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  Demonstrate critical thinking skills related to health policy and social justice
  

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  Completion of assignments and readings
  

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  Active participation in online discussions.
  

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  Communication in timely manner regarding any concerns/difficulties related to the course
  
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  Frequent and regular visits to the course Sakai site
  

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  Respect for students as co-learners in course
  

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  Adapting the course framework to needs, interests and concerns of students
  

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  Availability by appointment for meetings with students; availability by phone and e-mail
  
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  Maintaining the Sakai course website to accurately reflect the requirements of the course
  

This class utilizes Sakai to manage the course, its assignments, requirements, announcements, and readings. All students are REQUIRED to log into Sakai in order to access these functions from the beginning of the course until the end. Important updates, announcements and other useful information will be posted to the site on a regular basis. All written assignments are to be submitted through Sakai as a word document. There are no late submissions.

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  READINGS – Readings will be available in the weekly lecture navigation bar
  

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  DISCUSSION THREAD - Each week, as you go through the week’s materials, you will encounter a series of questions based off the readings and videos. Each question has its own dedicated forum around which you can engage in conversation with other participants. You are required to participate in each forum. Participation requires not only posting your response to the initial question, but also asking questions of and responding to other participants in the conversation.
  

The discussion threads are GRADED items and will appear in your "Gradebook" after each lecture is completed. Each lecture will have one or more discussion threads labeled on your sidebar. The topics will be related to the weekly lecture. It may seem overwhelming but once you are prepared, participating in these open discussions will become fairly simple and enjoyable. You will have one week to participate, do not wait until the last day of the week to join in the discussion, it will result in a loss of points because it will not allow you to engage with other students in an actual discussion.

All assignments are to be submitted via SAKAI; hard copies WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Assignments submitted late will lose points. Each day an assignment is late, 5 points will be deducted from the total points awarded. All written work must be spell-checked and edited for correct grammar and syntax. Points will be deducted for poor spelling, grammar and syntax.

JOURNAL - Each student will write a confidential journal five times during the semester to record their reactions to the assigned readings, class discussion, and interactions with other students that impact their thinking related to community, health, and social justice. The journal provides an opportunity to discuss insights about your values and your own learning. You may be asked to comment upon specific assigned readings or to respond to a specific question in your journal. The focus of the journal is on depth of thought, ability to look at self, critical discussion, and challenging one's own viewpoints. This is not meant to be a summary of the reading or the class!
The journal, which will be read only by the instructor, is due every other week on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and submitted through Sakai. Late journals WILL NOT be accepted.

Please add dates to your schedule. There are a total of 5 journals - 10 points each.
ZONING RULES

Identify the town and state in which you currently live (permanent address). Provide an overview of zoning for this location, i.e., is it all residential zoning or a mix of residential, business and/or industrial?

 

B+ Very good work, innovative thinking or excellent integration of work of others, 88-91%

 

D Meets minimum requirements but does not show understanding of material, poor quality; 60-69%

Everyone has the opportunity to build his/her grade. Each assignment has a designated number of points. The number of points awarded for each assignment depends upon whether or not the requirements of the assignment are met. Note that issues such as spelling, grammar and syntax are important and points will be deducted for poor spelling, grammar and syntax on all written work. Points will be deducted for late assignments.

The Bloustein School is appending this memorandum to your course syllabus because we recently have detected obvious cases of plagiarism. We have found far fewer cases of other forms of academic misconduct, but we find several every year. It is imperative that you understand that unethical academic conduct is intolerable, and it is completely preventable.  

Academic misconduct almost always happens for two reasons. One is ignorance of academic rules and practices. For example, in virtually every recent plagiarism case in the School, material has been taken from an Internet site and placed in text without appropriate note or attribution. You must learn the proper rules for attribution. If you are not sure, ask your instructor!  If you do not know the rules that govern the use of data sets, attribution, analysis and reporting of these sets, the faculty will help you. There is no such thing as a stupid question regarding this subject. 

Pressure is the second common reason for academic misconduct. Students, faculty, every one of us are subject to deadline, financial, self-worth, peer, and other pressures. If you are potentially allowing pressure to drive you to misconduct, please step back and resist that urge. You can cope with pressure in a positive way by reaching out to friends, counselors, and faculty members. Within the Bloustein School community, you will find understanding people and positive direction.