Course Syllabus

HLTED 6 – Stress and Healthy Adaptation

Spring 2025 - COURSE SYLLABUS

Laney College – KASH Department

Course Dates: August 18 - December 13 , 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.

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.

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 December 12, 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