1. Ms. Jeha Issues in Public Health

2. Objectives To understand the course and expectations featured in the syllabus To introduce each other

3. Do Now Take 1 minute: Define “Public Health” in your own terms. What do you hope to get from this course?

4. Generation Public Health http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuBggj7Zd3A

5. This is Public Health http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpu42LmLo4U

6. Review Syllabus Posted on school’s website Assignment schedule forthcoming

7. Strategies for Success

8. Curiosity & Honesty A genuine curiosity in exploring Issues in Public Health will serve you well, both in life and in academic studies of other disciplines. Honesty is assumed. Your personal integrity is too valuable to jeopardize, therefore be honest at all times in the work you produce and in your communications with your teacher and fellow students. Refer to your student handbook to read about the school’s Academic Integrity and computer use policies.

9. Be Proactive & Disciplined Be proactive. If you are confused, raise your hand, ask your questions, seek extra help. Above all, take responsibility for your work and your learning. You will succeed in this class to the degree that you wish. Discipline yourself to stay organized and to manage your time for study. It is the key to collegiate success!

10. Stay Organized! Keep all of your work, journals, research and corrected work in your binder. Regularly check the on-line homework page. All work will be announced first in class, and will also be posted to the on-line homework page a week at a time. It is suggested that you check the on-line homework page when you have been absent.

11. Active Reading Actively read your handouts. You may underline/ highlight/annotate but only as a means to help you recall. Jot down words and make notes for yourself in your notebook. If there is something you disagree with, do not understand or find particularly helpful or insightful, note those things. Scanning or “looking it over” does not constitute “active critical reading”. Remember note taking/highlighting is useful only if it can be understood and used by the student. In short, don’t take notes for the sake of taking notes, but to the purpose of how it can help YOU personally.

12. Levels of Performance “A” work for this course means “exceptional mastery of the learning outcomes, work which demonstrates higher levels of critical thinking, exceptionally insightful, very thorough, extraordinary!”. “B” work is very good work, above satisfactory, work which shows evidence of effort and contains some levels of insight. “C” work is satisfactory work, work which demonstrates that the learning outcomes have been reached, but lacking the criteria mentioned for A or B work. “D” work is work which is unsatisfactory, and which fails to demonstrate that the student has learned the required outcomes.

13. No textbook…but many resources! Google books Questions/quiz will follow readings Articles Read in class & analyzed at home

14. Reading … online Introduction to Public Health (3 rd edition) Mary-Jane Schneider http://books.google.com/books?id=T9i86TZdgHEC&print sec=frontcover&dq=Introduction+to+Public+health+schne ider&hl=en&src=bmrr#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=T9i86TZdgHEC&print sec=frontcover&dq=Introduction+to+Public+health+schne ider&hl=en&src=bmrr#v=onepage&q&f=false

15. EdModo www.edmodo.com Sign up! Class code: 3by0xq