You Are Invited
To Join a Community of Scholars
On a Mission
Why connect a Health course to an English course?
They are linked so that you may experience the important connection between your
personal health and the skill of critical thinking and written communication. These
classes linked together will give you the opportunity to explore hot topics in health. You
will cultivate a multi-layered understanding of how to take responsibility for your health,
how to change your behavior, and how to make informed decisions about your health.
You will learn to communicate clearly and effectively through the writing process.
Ultimately, you will gain a crucial understanding of health and the importance of critical
reading and powerful writing.
Are you ready to empower yourself through the learning process?
The Health and English Learning Community Promise
Learning Community students will achieve the following goals:
Success: Persist at San Diego City College, achieve academic success and accomplish
their goals.
Responsibility: Effectively transition to college level learning by becoming actively
involved and taking responsibility for their own learning.
Relationships: Develop closer social and intellectual relationships with other Learning
Community faculty and students from different cultures and majors. This is the
foundation of the Learning Community.
Critical Thinking: Gain knowledge and develop critical thinking skills by connecting
ideas from different disciplines.
Personal Experience: Achieve learning that is deeper and more personally relevant
through service learning and experiential activities.
Individuality: Exercise their creativity, develop their identity and discover their voice.
Learning becomes a part of who the student is, not just something the student does.
Global Perspective: Evolve into life-long scholars, conscious citizens and ethical leaders
by integrating what they learn into their world view and other academic and social
experiences.
Ways to Fulfill the Promise
We want to help you think about and understand your own learning and thinking so that
you can take charge of that learning. We want give you the opportunity to connect that
learning to your life and to the world. Here’s how:
Health 101: Core concepts in Health
English 101: Critical thinking, reading, and writing about controversial health topics
Service Learning: Putting knowledge into action! Volunteer work at UCSD's Physical
Activity and Community Youth Organization Coordinator Network for a Healthy
California (reflective journal assignments submitted for points in both classes)
Blackboard Online Discussion: Weekly writing responses to health related topics
(points earned in both classes) http://online.sdccd.edu USERNAME: CSID number,
PASSWORD: 8 digit birthdate (mmddyyyy)
Conferences with both instructors
Conferences with SI tutor
R.S.V.P
Simply by being here…
Professor of Health, Ellen Turkel: eturkel@sdccd.edu
English Instructor, Kelley McClary: kmcclary@sdccd.edu
SI Tutor, Ephraim Sommers: eze_32@yahoo.com
Community Mentor Larissa Johnson: lrjohnso@ucsd.edu