Promise of Health Course Calendar Draft                          back to syllabus
Summer 2005: Topics, Readings and Assignments Schedule            T/TH 6-10pm

Date

Topics

Seminar

Assignments

WK1

6/21

Introduction: The Journey Begins

The Self, Core Values and
Health Care Beliefs Workshop

 

(Journal Due: 6/23,
Peer critique due: 6/27)

6/23

Idealization of Health

Guest Speaker:

Kevin Francis,  Tesc Faculty
"The Idealization of the Body"

 Articles: TBA

Journals Exchanged

WK2

6/28

Health Care for Whom?

Guest Speakers:

Jan Ward Olmstead
Tribal Liaison/Community Health Services
Washington State Health Care Authority

Maria C. Gardipee
Tribal Liaison & Agency Multicultural Coordinator
Office of Policy, Legislative and Constituent Relations
Department of Health

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

Peer Journal Critique Due

Due: First Self-assessment Learning Goals and Objectives 
Paper Due

6/30

Public Health Policy

Guest Speaker: 

Sherri McDonald, RN, MPA, Director, Thurston County Public Health & Social Services
The Politics of Public Health in the United States

Journals Due

Policy Selection Due

WK3

7/5

No class:
take home case study and time to work on Presentations

 

7/7

Health Care Administration

Joan: Lecture "US Accidental System"

One Nation, Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance

Due: Take home assignment

Journals to Faculty Due (W/Peer Journal Critique Due)

WK4

7/12

Health and Health Care

Guest Speaker:

Evan Hirsch, MD.  Providence Hospital
Wellness

Articles: TBA

Journals Due

7/14

Healing: Health and Health Care

Guest Speaker:

Betty Kutter,TESC, cutting edge care options

No seminar:
Group Preparation

Peer Journal Critique Due

WK5

7/19

Presentations           

Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of Change Within to Change the World

Journals to Faculty Due

Group Evaluations, Briefing Handout, Bibliography  and  Executive Summary Due

7/21

Presentations           

5 minute sharing of selected text and research.         

Group Evaluations, Briefing Handout, Bibliography  and  Executive Summary Due

Final Self Assessment Due

Self and Faculty Evaluations Due