Anthropology/Physical Education 190
Predictive Health: Discover Your Health
Emory University
TuTh 11:30-12:45
Woodpec Classroom 402
Spring 2011
Course Description:
Health care is a primary challenge facing our society as we confront augmenting costs, diminishing
resources, and ethical dilemmas in how to maintain well-being across our country. Emory's Predictive
Health Initiative is involved in identifying novel, integrated approaches to defining, and promoting health
and well-being. One of the goals of the initiative is to contribute to a change in our medical system from a
disease-oriented, remedial enterprise, to a health-promoting system, in which disease itself is a failure.
Variability in cultural and social aspects of beliefs, attitudes, and values are important determinants of
health-related behaviors. This course provides students with an opportunity to become involved in a
personalized approach to health and well-being. It is increasingly evident that individual involvement in
personal health has profound benefits. This course offers students the tools to discover their own health,
and strategic approaches for the development and implementation of healthy life ways.
Readings: Listed on the BB course site.
Contact List:
Michelle Lampl, PhD, MD
404-727-2214
mlampl@emory.edu
Jill Welkley, PhD
404-727-4093
jwelkle@emory.edu
Lisa DuPree, MS
404-686-6183
madupre@emory.edu
Prerequisites: None
Course Requirements:
Attendance/Participation: As a student in this course, it is expected that you will actively participate in
each class (e.g., class discussions on readings/assignment), and complete assignments on time.
Assignments are due no later than the assigned due date. Exceptions to this policy will require explicit
permission of the instructor in writing. Class Policy states that maximum allowable absences for a
Tues/Thurs class is 4. Any student with 5 or more absences will fail the class. Medical Withdrawals and
special circumstances should be handled through the college office. Faculty may not issue a W.
Absences impact the attendance portion of your grade (25%) as follows:
1= no penalty, 2= 10 points off, 3=20 points off, 4=30 points off, 5 or greater= failure
Absences include trips, appointments, interviews, conferences, illness, injury, etc. Absences will be
EXCUSED ONLY for religious observances and official school business. Students must E-MAIL the
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instructor PRIOR TO and receive approval from the planned absence in order for it to be counted as
EXCUSED.
TARDIES (greater than 5 minutes late) will impact the attendance portion of your grade as follows:
Up to 2=no penalty, each subsequent tardy=5 points off. (e.g. 4 tardies = 10 pts. off, equivalent to one
absence. 5 = 15 off, etc.)
Course Procedures:
Dropping a Course: Emory students may withdraw from one or more courses until the Friday at 4pm
of the sixth full week of class of the semester after the drop-add period providing that the student
continues to carry a load of 12 credit hours or is in his/her final semester of residence as a graduating
senior. Please consult your advisor or the Office for Undergraduate Education
Disability: Emory University is committed to ensuring that all University goods, services, facilities,
and programs are meaningfully accessible to eligible persons with a disability in accordance with the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act 1973, and other
pertinent federal, state, and local laws. The Office of Disability Services (ODS) is the central
clearinghouse that processes and facilitates all accommodation requests from qualified students who
have completed the registration process in its entirety. Students are responsible for initiating the
accommodation request process by self disclosing their disability and/or chronic medical condition
directly to ODS. More detailed information is available on the website at www.ods.emory.edu, or
make requests directly to the Office of Disability Services, Emory University, 201 Dowman Drive,
University Administration Building, Suite 110, Atlanta, GA 30322, 404.727.6016 (v) or 404.712.2049
(TDD).
Academic Honesty Policy: For more than half a century, academic integrity has been maintained at
Emory through the student-initiated and student-regulated Honor Code. The responsibility for
maintaining a standard of unimpeachable honor in all academic work falls upon every individual who
is a part of Emory University. Every student who chooses to attend Emory College agrees, as a
condition of attendance, to abide by all provisions of the Honor Code as long as he or she remains a
student in the college. By continued attendance in Emory College, students reaffirm their pledge to
adhere to and uphold the provisions of the Honor Code. The Honor Council, a body of at least ten
annually appointed students, has responsibility for investigating and adjudicating all alleged violations
of the Honor Code. Students found to have violated the Honor Code are subject to verbal reprimand,
written reprimand, F in the course in question, suspension, dismissal, or a combination of these and
other sanctions. Copies of the Honor Code are distributed and explained to new students and are
available in the Emory College office, 218 White Hall, and online at
http://www.college.emory.edu/current/standards/honor_code.html.
In this class, the Emory University honor code is in place and you are explicitly responsible for
taking care to present work that you claim as your own: there is a no tolerance policy in effect for
plagiarism from any source, inclusive of internet sites, and the written and spoken work of others. If
you do not understand what plagiarism is, please read the honor code carefully and seek assistance
from the instructor.
Course Expectations:
Students in this course are expected to be active learners and participants, requiring all students to take
an active role in their own learning and to share the learning process with the class. Evidence of active
learning includes:
 “Attending” all weekly lectures, which is critical to promoting a learning community within the
class.
 Reading all assigned materials and making note of questions, areas of interest, and
connections you find to other readings.
 Active participation, allowing each student to test his or her own assumptions as well as
expand the worldview of others in the class.
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Grading & Assignments:
Assignment Value
25%
25%
25%
25%
Assignment
Attendance/Participation
Homework
Written Mid-Term
Project Final
Due Date
See Blackboard
Evaluation: All graded activities will require students to perform against the standard of professionalism,
which implies (at least): accuracy, neatness, correct written and spoken form and style, punctuality,
resourcefulness, and creativity.
Absences from Examinations:
A student who fails to take any required examination at the scheduled time may not make up the
examination without written permission from a dean in the Office for Undergraduate Education.
Permission will be granted only for illness or other compelling reasons, such as participation in scheduled
events off-campus as an official representative of the University. A student who takes any part of a final
examination ordinarily will not be allowed to defer or retake that final. Deferred examinations must be
taken during the student’s next semester of residence by the last date for deferred examinations in the
academic calendar or within twelve months if the student does not re-enroll in the college. Failure to take
a deferred examination by the appropriate deadline will result automatically in the grade IF or IU.
Due Dates: Assignments are due the date listed. Late assignments will receive a point penalty equivalent
to one letter grade for each day past assigned due date. After one week the assignment will not be
accepted and a zero grade will be recorded.
Tuesday January 18, 2011
Health: What is it? Do you have it?
Introduction: all
Michelle Lampl, PhD, MD
Associate Director Predictive Health and
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology
Jill Welkley, Ph.D,
Associate Professor
Health and Physical Education
Lisa Dupree, MS
Predictive Health Partner, Center for Health Discovery and Well Being
Homework: What is Health? Due Thursday in class.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Fitness: How is yours?
Jill Welkley
Activity day: run, flexibility, skinfolds, circumference, ht, wt
Homework: exrx.net enter your data. Complete Online CHD surveys. Due Thursday
January 27th in class.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Fitness and Exercise
Jill Welkley,
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Associate Professor, Health and Physical Education
Reading TBD
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Defining your health: Visioning and Surveys
Lisa Dupree, MS
Predictive Health Partner, Center for Health Discovery and Well Being
Readings: The Rosetto Effect
Tuesday February 1, 2011
Visioning & Goal-Setting for you
Lisa Dupree, MS
Predictive Health Partner, Center for Health Discovery and Well Being
Reading: TBD
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time management
Shari Obrentz, MS
Director, Learning Programs Emory University
Reading:TBD
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Yoga
Paula Stauf, MS
Chair, Department of Health and Physical Education
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Project Initiation
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Dana Wyner, Ph.D
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Emory Counseling Services
Biofeedback/Stress Management
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Goal update and Energy management 1
Lisa Dupree
Reading TBD
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Energy management cont
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Lisa Dupree
Reading TBD
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sleep Well
Heather Zesiger, MPH
Director of Health Education and Promotion-Student Health
Reading TBD
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
MIDTERM
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Cycling
Jill Welkley, PhD
Health and Physical Education
March 7-11 HAVE A GREAT SPRING BREAK! STAY SAFE
Tuesday March15, 2011
Values strength and priorities and health
Lisa Dupree
Reading TBD
Thursday, March 17 , 2011
DUC Dietitician
Patricia Ziegenhorn, MS, RD, PHR
Sr. Director, University Food Service Administration
Homework: Food record
Reading TBD
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Nutrition
Carole Kelly, RD
Nutrition Education Coordinator, Student Health Services
Reading TBD
Thursday March 24, 2011
Mimi Umstead
Lecturer, Health and Physical Education
Reading TBD
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Jill Welkley
Reading TBD
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Resistance training
Exercise Lab – Fitness Lab WPEC
Muscles and Your Health
Deborah Ingalls, MS
Lecturer, Health and Physical Education Reading TBD
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Project Follow-Up
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Activity Day TBD
Guest Instructor
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Nutrigenomics
Tricia Simonds, MS, RD
Senior Lecturer- Health and Physical Education
Reading TBD
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Holistic Health
Virginia Plummer
Student Health
Reading TBD
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Student Projects
Thursday April 21, 2011
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Student Projects
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