UCC/UGC/YCC
Proposal for New Course
1. Effective BEGINNING of what term and year?:
Fall 2012
See effective dates calendar.
2. College: Health and Human
Services
4. Course subject and number:
3. Academic Unit: Health Sciences
FW 405
5. Units: 3
6. Long course title: Worksite Health Promotion
(max 100 characters including spaces)
7. Short course title: Worksite Health Promotion
(max. 30 characters including spaces)
8. Catalog course description (max. 60 words, excluding requisites):
This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to develop, manage, and
sustain health and wellness programs in the worksite setting. Letter grade only. Prerequisite:
HS 200; FW 343; and any nutrition course
9. Grading option:
Letter grade
Pass/Fail
Both
10a. UGC approval date*:
10. Co-convened with:
(For example: ESE 450 and ESE 550)
*Must be approved by UGC before UCC submission, and both course syllabi must be presented
11. Cross-listed with:
(For example: ES 450 and DIS 450)
Please submit a single cross-listed syllabus that will be used for all cross-listed courses.
12. May course be repeated for additional units?
12a. If yes, maximum units allowed?
12b. If yes, may course be repeated for additional units in the same term?
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Yes
No
Yes
No
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13. Prerequisites:
HS 200; FW 343; and any
nutrition course
14. Co requisites:
15. Is this course in any plan (major, minor or certificate) or sub plan (emphasis or concentration)?
Yes
No
If yes, describe the impact and attach written responses from the affected academic units prior
to college curricular submission.
BS Health Sciences; Fitness and Wellness. Minor: Health and Wellness Coaching. This
proposal is being submitted concurrently with the new plan proposal for the major and minor.
16. Is there a related plan or sub plan proposal being submitted?
Yes
No
If no, explain.
17. Does this course include combined lecture and lab components?
Yes
If yes, note the units specific to each component in the course description above.
No
18. Does this course duplicate content of existing courses?
Yes
No
If yes, list the courses with duplicate material. If the duplication is greater than 20%,
explain why NAU should establish this course.
19. Names of the current faculty qualified to teach this course:
Laura Bounds
20. Justification for new course.
This course is a required course in the attached new major and minor proposals. This course
is necessary to meet the required outcomes for that plan and minor.
NOTE: The overall plan proposal is being created such that no new resources are needed.
This is possible through efficiencies gained in modifying existing plans in the department and
Extended Campuses support for online courses. See attached letter of support from
Extended Campuses.
Answer 21-22 for UCC/YCC only:
21. Is this course being proposed for Liberal Studies designation?
Yes
If yes, forward this form along with the appropriate supporting documentation to the
Liberal Studies Committee.
No
22. Is this course being proposed for Diversity designation?
Yes
If yes, forward this form along with the appropriate supporting documentation to the
No
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Diversity Committee
Scott Galland
Reviewed by Curriculum Process Associate
01/13/2012
Date
Approvals:
Department Chair/ Unit Head (if appropriate)
Date
Chair of college curriculum committee
Date
Dean of college
Date
For Committee use only:
UCG/UGC/YCC Approval
Date
:
Approved as submitted:
Yes
No
Approved as modified: Yes
No
:
From: Patrick A Deegan
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 4:30 PM
To: Stephen E Palmer
Subject: RE: Request for Support - Fitness/Wellness major and minor
Hi, Steve, Let me know if the following brief statement will do the job for you on the UCC
forms:
Extended Campuses is pleased to provide funding to cover salary costs for part time
instructors or full time faculty teaching on overload for the following courses: FW 321, 343,
405, and 406. Payment of full salary costs will be based on adequate enrollment.
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FW 405 WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION
SPRING 2014 (3 CREDIT HOURS)
Meeting Time/Days: This course is asynchronous, but is not self-paced. Assignments
are due at regular intervals as posted on the syllabus and course calendar.
Instructor: Laura Bounds, M.S., MCHES
338 Health Professions Building
928-523-6320
Laura.Bounds@nau.edu
Course prerequisites: HS 200 & FW 343
Course description
This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to develop, manage, and
sustain health and wellness programs in the worksite setting.
Student Learning Expectations/ Outcomes
Discuss the importance of needs assessment to determine the potential for
worksite wellness programs
Describe the benefits of health promotion programs in the workplace
Quantify potential savings in health care costs from worksite health promotion
Outline strategies to engage employees in worksite health promotion
Develop written communication to rationalize worksite promotion to
administration
Apply behavior change theories in the worksite setting
Describe effective worksite health promotion design and implementation
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Course structure/approach
This is an upper-division class requiring independent thought and effort. Active
participation and discussion is expected and encouraged. The textbook and
supplemental readings will be the basis of interactive discussions in Bb Learn. Students
are encouraged to share relevant materials and experiences regarding course topics
with the class. Opportunity to pursue individual interests within this subject area is
provided and encouraged in class assignments.
All questions that would typically wait until the next class meeting (in a traditional face to
face course) should be asked within Bb Learn. If the question is one that would normally
be asked during class and in front of the rest of the class, please ask your question in
the public Questions/Answers discussion area. This will allow the other students to
benefit from your question. If your question is more discreet in nature and you would
typically ask it before or after class to me personally, please email me with in the Bb
Learn course by selecting my name within the Course Email function.
If you have a more urgent question or issue that would, in a face to face course, require
you to come by my office or call me directly, please email my personal email
(Laura.Bounds@nau.edu) or call my office. In any case, please feel comfortable
contacting me about anything. The policies above simply allow me to triage or sort out
the large amount of messages I receive.
Due to the variety of time zones from which students are logging on and differing
student work hours, there will be no set office hours for this class. Students are
encouraged to request individual telephone appointments with me (at a mutually
convenient day and time) to discuss problems or questions or to communicate by email. Note that Arizona does not follow Daylight Savings Time like other states. This
means we are on the same time as California during the summer and the same as
Colorado during the winter.
Textbook and required materials
ACSM’s Worksite Health Handbook (2nd edition): ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-7434-6 Editor N.
Pronk
Course outline
Module One: Historical Perspective of Worksite Health Promotion
Chapter 1: Population Health Management at the Worksite
Chapter 2: Employee Health Promotion: A Historical Perspective
Chapter 3: Workplace-Based Health and Wellness Services
Chapter 5: Health Promotion Programming in Small, Medium, and Large
Businesses
Chapter 6: Employee Health Promotion: A Legal Perspective
Module Two: Evidence to Support Worksite Health Promotion
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Chapter 9: An Introduction to Evidence on Worksite Health Promotion
Chapter 12: Benchmarking and Best Practices in Worksite Health Promotion
Chapter 13: Health and the Organization of Work
Module Three: Assessment of Employee and Organizational Health
Chapter 15: Practical Program Evaluation: Ensuring Findings Are Used for
Program Improvement
Chapter 16: The Assessment of Health and Risk: Tools, Specific Uses, and
Implementation Processes
Chapter 17: Organizational Assessment for Health
Chapter 19: Calculating the Economic Return of Health and Productivity
Management Programs
Chapter 20: Using Claims Analysis to Support Intervention Planning, Design, and
Measurement
Module Four: Program Design
Chapter 21: Organizing Intelligence to Achieve Increased Consumer
Engagement, Behavior Change, and Health Improvement
Chapter 22: The Application of Behavior Change Theory in the Worksite Setting
Chapter 23: Keeping Healthy Workers Healthy: Creating a Culture of Health
Chapter 24: Connecting the Program to Core Business Objectives
Chapter 25: Addressing Diversity and Health Literacy at the Worksite
Chapter 26: A Culture of Health: Creating and Sustaining Supportive
Organizational Environments for Health
Module Five: Program Implementation
Chapter 27: Online Communities and Worksite Health Management
Chapter 28: Rewarding Change: Principles for Implementing Worksite Incentive
Programs
Chapter 29: eHealth for Employee Health and Wellness: Optimizing Plan Design
and Incentive Management
Chapter 30: Effective Programs to Promote Worker Health Within Healthy and
Safe Worksites
Chapter 31: Programs Designed to Improve Employee Health Through Changes
in the Built Environment
Chapter 34: From the Basics to Comprehensive Programming
Course Evaluation
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Possible Points
Discussions
50
Quizzes/Exams
200
Fieldwork experience project
100
Worksite health promotion draft
50
Worksite health promotion paper
100
Total Possible Points
500
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Grading Scale
450-500 pts. = A
400-449 pts. = B
350-399 pts. = C
300-349 pts. = D
<300 pts. = F
ADD/DROP, WITHDRAWAL, AND WITHDRAWAL WITH PETITION DATES:
(TBA: These dates will be added for the semesters the course is taught.)
Course policy
Students are expected to:
1. Attend class online daily.
2. Missed or late written assignments: Students should be prepared to submit
assignments on or before the due dates. Any assignments submitted late will
have a 5-point penalty per day, regardless of the point value of the
assignment. Late discussion posts and quizzes: You will not receive any
credit for late discussion posts or quizzes. Remember, allow yourself
adequate time to deal with potential technical barriers to submitting your
assignments. Technical barriers include such things as the NAU Bb Learn
server's being down, bad weather affecting transmission over telephone lines,
or unanticipated problems with your computer. To allow time to deal with such
problems, you should submit papers one or two days before the due dates.
The Academic Help Desk staff are available to help you, but that is NOT a 24hour service. Additional responsibilities of the student: It is the student's
responsibility to ask questions IMMEDIATELY if she/he is unsure of
requirements for the assignments or if she/he has technical problems with
access to course information. Contact the instructor with questions regarding
interpreting or posting assignments well in advance of assigned due dates.
While NAU instructors check their Mail regularly, they will not be on-line every
day, so please plan ahead. If you are unfamiliar with using a computer, you
are strongly advised not to take an online class. Just as this class requires a
basic knowledge of health and disease, you must also have proficiency in
computer use, and the ability to follow detailed instructions and navigate
within a web-based format.
3. Type (double-spaced) all assignments that are turned in, except where
otherwise noted.
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4. Submit original work. Plagiarism of copy-written materials and/or work will not
be tolerated.
5. Expectations regarding professional class behavior: Students should act in a
professional and courteous manner when offering opinions or responding to
others' ideas, even if they vary substantially from their own beliefs. Students
may have differing opinions or perspectives on concepts presented in class,
and all students should feel that the expression of their ideas will be
respected. I count on each of you to contribute to a safe and considerate
learning environment for all. Individual work: All assignments for this class (all
quizzes, written assignments, and discussion posts) must be completed
independently. You may discuss information and concepts with other
individuals or students, but the actual writing of assignments for a grade must
be independent work. If academic dishonesty is confirmed (see below), the
student will receive a grade of 0% (zero points) on the assignment, and
further action will be taken by the Department.
University policies: Attach the Safe Working and Learning Environment, Students with
Disabilities, Institutional Review Board, and Academic Integrity policies or reference
them on the syllabus. See the following document for policy statements:
http://www4.nau.edu/avpaa/UCCPolicy/plcystmt.html.
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