Course Syllabus

HLTED 6 – Stress and Healthy Adaptation

Spring 2025 - COURSE SYLLABUS

Laney College – KASH Department

Course Dates: August 18 - October 11, 2025

Instructor: Austin Kiraly

Office Phone: (510) 464-3482 (best time during office hours -- but best way to contact is email)

Fax: (510) 986-6900

Email: akiraly@peralta.edu (I will check it daily on Weekdays, you may also use Canvas messenger)

Canvas Student App: the Canvas Student app is an easy way to navigate the course and receive alerts when new modules are published or due dates are changed. The app is available on any app marketplace. Please download it and log in so you can easily monitor and contribute to the course. Below are links to download the app.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is designed to:

• Help you distinguish types of stress and their impact on health.
• Select appropriate stress reduction methods to lower the health impact of stressors.
• Develop personal resource management techniques to lower risk of potential life stressors.

To get started, please click the syllabus link available in the tab on the left or in the Modules tab. Then follow along with the available Modules for each week. If you are not familiar with the online format known as "Canvas", you can watch the tutorials on the Canvas home page.

All communications for this class will be done via announcements and on the Canvas inbox messenger. To access your Canvas inbox, click on the "inbox" icon on the left side of the page. Messages can be sent directly to me, and I will use it to address the class.

Note: Do NOT start any forums or quizzes until reading all the directions.  You will not get full credit for Late Work -- you MUST pay attention to the deadlines or risk losing points.

Other Resources

Laney College has a great Remote/Online Student Services site that has links for all the great services that Laney College is providing. This includes basic needs (food, laptop rental, etc), counseling, tutoring, financial aid, and a number of other helpful services. Here is the link to find helpful resources: https://laney.edu/online-student-services/

Canvas Student App Information (Links to an external site.)

Google Play Store (Links to an external site.)

Apple App Store

Policies and Procedures:

• Contacting Instructor: email is the best way to get a hold of me unless you call me while I’m in the office. If you leave a phone message, I may not pick it up as often as email. I check email M-F daily and sometimes on the weekends, so if you have questions, make sure you email me by Thursday/Friday to get them answered.
• Online Skills Needed: To be successful in this class, I recommend having the ability to navigate and search websites, be proficient with email, read online content, watch video's online (not closed captioned at this time), and navigate through various windows of class content.
• Time Management Skills Needed: Since this is an online class, you will be responsible for managing your time to be able to get online daily for at least 1-2 hours in order to complete course activities and reading. At the beginning of each week, you should check out that week’s coursework (look at the weekly checklist) and plan a time each day to work on different elements for the week. If you are not as computer ‘savvy’, you may need to plan for more time to navigate and figure out the necessary online activities.
• Honesty Policy: Due to the ‘hidden’ nature of an online class (since I’m not ‘watching’ you in a classroom), I expect that each student will be honest in completing his/her own work and not plagiarize or copy another individual's work, or have someone else complete any portion of the class other than the actual student enrolled in the course. All copyright laws must be upheld. If plagiarism is discovered, you may be expelled from this course.
• Participation Policy: My expectation is that all students will maintain an active roll in class discussions and activities, and that each person’s input is valuable and contributes to the whole class's learning environment. Don’t deprive your classmates of learning from you! Risk getting involved, even if topics are a little uncomfortable for you to talk about. According to class reviews, this is one of the things students love most about this class - they love to learn from each other and share their experiences.
• Course Content Warning: This class covers mature content geared toward college level participation/ students. We will be discussing and viewing content related to human anatomy & sexuality, contraception, sexual diseases, and these types of content may include video and pictures that are appropriate for a mature audience (you may not want younger children watching with you when you are viewing this material). All materials are geared for tasteful educational purposes, but I just felt that you should be aware of the materials and the expectation that each student be able to handle him or herself in a mature, responsible fashion when dealing with these subjects.

Student Learning Outcomes:

These are the things that I expect will be the Learning Outcomes from you taking this class. By the end, I will expect that:

1. Students will identify 2-3 health behaviors that could be improved in their daily lives, and create SMART goals to address these behaviors.

2. Students will apply healthy concepts to daily living.

3. Students will be able to describe health principles and concepts from each of the various components of wellness.

Methods of Evaluating Outcomes :

Each topic will be at least one quiz, a forum, and other possible assignments to complete. These elements of the course will be graded. Your points will be totaled and a "Simple Weighted Mean" calculation will be used to determine your final grade. That means that each graded element is given a 'weight' that is calculated as Max Grade - Minimum Grade. Graded assignments that are worth more points, will be weighted 'heavier' than lower point assignments. For instance, a 100 point assignment is given a weight of 100 and a 30 point assignment is given a weight of 30.

Late and Make-up Work

On Time assignments will be given full credit and then graded for completeness.

Late assignments may be turned in if an agreement was made with the instructor.

Course Management:

The best way to approach this class is by going over the Modules on the Monday that they come out. Once you have an understanding for what is due by the end of the week, you can manage your time better and complete each forum, quiz and assignment before the Sunday night deadline. The material for this course if very straight forward, so as long as you are viewing and understanding the material you should do well.

Textbook: All information for this class is in the modules, so the textbook assigned for the course is not required.

FINAL PAPER due OCTOBER 10, 2025

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/index.html

Grading % Scale:

90 - 100% …………………A

80 - 89% …………………. B

70 - 79% ………………...…C

60 - 69% …………………...D

0 - 59% ….…………………. F