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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2018 through Summer 2020
- Course Number:
- HE 213
- Course Title:
- Men's Health
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Examines the personal, behavioral, social, and cultural factors impacting the health and wellness of men. Provides an overview of the health differences between various communities of men and encourages exploration of causes. Explores health and wellness promotion strategies. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Identify significant men's health issues in the United States.
- Discuss how the construct of masculinity promotes and hinders men’s health.
- Use health models to examine the behavioral, social, and cultural factors that contribute to or inhibit men's health.
- Analyze how social determinants influence the health of individual men and communities of men.
- Use information from credible research and primary data sources to explore men's health differences.
Social Inquiry and Analysis
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Written examination
- Critical analysis of material
- Journaling and self assessment
- Group problem solving
- Classroom activities and discussion
- Online discussion and presentation
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
PROCESS SKILLS
Critical thinking
- compare
- predict
- hypothesize
- problem solving
- decision making
Communication skills
- oral and written communication
- computer literacy
- cooperative group work
Intrapersonal skills
- values clarification
- reflective writing
Information Access Skills
- collect qualitative and quantitative data
- access current information
- evaluate validity
THEMES, CONCEPTS, IDEAS
- Analyze societal and cultural context for masculinity.
- Understand cultural ,social and environmental influences and their effect on masculinity.
- Demonstrate knowledge of men’s physical and emotional health conditions from a treatment and prevention perspective.
- Demonstrate knowledge of men’s cardiovascular health and men’s cancers. Understand gender differences in life expectancy.
- Demonstrate knowledge of current issues in men’s sexual health.
- Analyze the influence of social class and race on masculinity and men’s health.
- Explore current research in Men’s Health.
- Apply Transtheoretical Model of behavior change.
- Understand behavior factors that contribute or inhibit personal health.