Distance Learning

Human Sexuality Online

HEDP 1161 is an introductory course on Human Sexuality that reviews basic anatomy, sexual function and response, and challenges and disorders of sexual function. This course is designed to familiarize you with the biological, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of human sexuality and family life. The course provides basic information about human sexuality which includes anatomy, pregnancy-childbirth, birth control, sexual variations, and sexually transmitted diseases. Students who successfully complete HEDP 1161 are expected to be able to understand:

• Basic anatomical functions
• The sexual response cycle
• Sexual disorders
• Pregnancy & childbirth
• Birth control
• Solitary and shared sexual behaviors
• Homosexual behavior
• The continuum of sexually transmitted diseases and their treatments
• Sexual disorders which may be present for males and females
• The challenges that may exist about sexuality and sexual function within special populations

Course Requirements:

• Online Quizzes and assignments
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login  – click System Checker

Personal Health

HEDP 1163 introduces the student to health problems and trends in modern health practices. Nutrition, heart disease, fitness, and consumer health protection are also discussed. Students who successfully complete HEDP 1163 are expected to be able to:

• Increase knowledge of how to personalize one’s own health
• Assess current personal lifestyle.
• Identify the characteristics of emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
• Define stress and stressors and describe how the body responds to stress according to the general adaption syndrome theory
• Describe the components of physical fitness
• Define overweight and obesity, and describe the four indicators of weight-related health risks.
• Explain how the different agents of infection spread disease
• Explain how heart functions
• Identify the risk factors for cardiovascular disease that you can control and those that you cannot control
• Discuss strategies for self-care, as well as how to get the best possible health care
• List your rights as a medical consumer
• Describe the different types of complementary and alternative therapies and explain what research has show about their effectiveness

Course Requirements:

• Online quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts
• Students must have the knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker

Stress Management

HEDP 1164 provides an introduction to various strategies that can be utilized by individuals and groups to counteract the effects of stress in their lives. The concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, self-care and healing provide the framework within which the student experiences the use of various stress management strategies. Students who successfully complete HEDP 1164 are expected to be able to:

• Understand the biological and psychological symptoms of stress
• Describe the importance of stress management and related emotional health approaches in adaptation, adjustment, and in achieving competence.
• Describe the social, cognitive, and environmental factors related to learning.
• Describe stress, the stress response, and the danger of prolonged distress.
• Identify sources of stress in your own life and the lives of others across the age span.
• Select and adopt various stress management techniques.
• Gain experience with major forms of relaxation training techniques
• Evaluate current research findings and applications of relaxation training in various settings.
• Gain experience in applying stress management and relaxation training in your own life.

Course Requirements:

• Online Quizzes and assignments, and discussion posts
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login  – click System Checker

Mental Health

Causes, types, treatment, and prevention of mental illness. Consideration given to society’s reaction to the mentally ill and how to maintain mental health. Students who complete HEDP 1165 should be able to:

1. Explore time-management techniques and ways to enrich your life with positive experiences and attitudes
2. Determine the reason for sleep.
3. Identify the amount of sleep needed?
4. Learn the symptoms and causes of insomnia.
5. Define each of the four components of psychological health and identify the basic traits shared by psychologically healthy people.
6. Learn what factors affect your psychological health; discuss the positive steps you can take to enhance your psychological well-being.
7. Identify some psychological disorders, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and schizophrenia, and explain their causes and treatments.
8. Discuss the warning signs of suicide and the actions you could take to help a suicidal individual.
9. Explain the various treatments and different types of mental health professionals, explaining how they can play a role in managing mental health disorders
10. Explain how spirituality and religion differ.
11. Define how might psychotherapy be considered a form of spirituality?
12. Define how your personal spirituality be enhanced based on what you have read?
13. Discuss the various types of intentional injuries, and societal and individual factors that contribute to violence in American society.
14. Discuss factors that contribute to homicide, domestic violence, sexual victimization, child and elder abuse, gang violence, and terrorism.
15. Define aging and explain the related concepts of biological, psychological, social, legal, and functional age.
16. Explain how the growing population of older adults will affect society, including considerations of economics, health care, living arrangements, and ethical and moral issues.
17. Discuss death, the stages of the grieving process, and strategies for coping with death

Course Requirements:

• Online quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts
• Basic knowledge of computers and computer applications

Additional Requirements

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker

Drugs and Drug Abuse

HEDP 1166 introduces the student to basic information about drug use and abuse which includes alcohol, depressants, narcotics, tobacco, stimulants, psychedelics, marijuana, over-the-counter drugs, and prescription drugs. Students who successfully complete HEDP 1166 are expected to be able to:

• Identify and describe the various classifications of drugs
• Define key drug terms
• Describe the major methods for taking drugs
• Explain how dose, age, body weight, gender, time, disease and emotional state affect drug actions
• Identify how drugs get to and then affect the human brain
• Explain the history of alcohol use
• Compare the major classes of alcoholic beverages concerning typical servings and alcohol content
• Describe how alcohol affects the human body/mind
• Identify the various sedative-hypnotic drugs and explain their effect on the human body/brain
• Explain the history of opiate use
• Identify the various classes of narcotics and explain their effect on the human body/mind
• Describe the physical damage that tobacco smoke can have on the human body
• Explain the main methods of tobacco use and the dangers associated with each
• Identify the various stimulant drugs and explain their effect on the human body/mind
• Explain the history of both psychedelics and marijuana use
• Identify the various psychedelic drugs and explain their effect on the human body/mind
• Describe the various forms of marijuana use and explain the effects of each on the human body/mind
• Identify various over-the-counter drugs and explain their effects on the human body/mind
• Identify various prescription drugs and explain their effects on the human body/mind
• Explain why athletes seem to be psychologically vulnerable to the use and abuse of psychoactive drugs
• Explain why drug and alcohol abuse is so often seen as a family affair
• Explain how the family can function in the primary prevention of drug abuse
• Describe the basic elements of a comprehensive school policy against the use of alcohol and other drugs

Course Requirements:

• Online quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts
• Students must have the knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

Additional Requirements:

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login  – click System Checker

Introduction to Drug Education

HEDP 2250 is designed to study the “why” aspects of drug use. Emphasis is placed on developing positive attitudes that will help the student to make consistent decisions above drug-related issues. Suitable alternatives to individual drug abuse problems will be presented.   Students who successfully complete HEDP 2250 are expected to be able to:

Course Requirements:

• Online quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts
• Students must have the knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

Additional Requirements

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker

African American Health Issues

HEDP 3330 is designed to explore numerous health issues affecting the African American community. An overview of African American health, a historical background in racial disparities in health care, specific health problems as they relate to African American children, women, men and the elderly will specifically be addressed. Violence, homicide and incarceration and how these social and environmental issues affect the Black community will be looked at in this course. Many diseases affect African Americans at increased rates and two such chronic diseases will be discussed in detail in this course: cancer and diabetes. Lifestyle behaviors will be looked at from the perspective of the African American (Substance Use, HIV/AIDS, tobacco use, alcohol use, nutrition, obesity and physical activity). The course will also look at how these existing health disparities can be eliminated. Students who successfully complete HEDP 3330 are expected to be able to:

Course Requirements:

• Online quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts
• Students must have the knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

Additional Requirements

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker

Current Issues in Health

HEDP 3660 – Analysis of the current major issues of health includes the role of the consumer in the theory and practice of self-care, health services and contemporary factors that influence personal choices in all of the facets of healthful living.  Students who successfully complete HEDP 3660 are expected to be able to:

Course Requirements:

• Online quizzes, assignments, and discussion posts
• Students must have the knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel

Additional Requirements

• A computer with Microsoft Word and appropriate plug ins to successfully run GeorgiaView - https://albanystate.view.usg.edu/d2l/login – click System Checker