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Professor Information

Instructor: Lisa Millsaps-Graham, PhD, MPH
Office location: Online
Office hrs:
Remote office hrs via: Google Voice, Blackboard Ultra Chat, Zoom or email
Contact emails:
- LMillsaps@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- ProfessorMillsapsGraham@gmail.com
Office phone: Google Voice number 347-395-5493 (You can text there too)

Number: HNSC 1100
Name: Personal and Community Health Semester

Required Texts

Our class uses Open Education Resources (OER) in replacement of the textbooks and is therefore a Zero Cost course. This means there is no textbook students need to purchase. All materials are on the course website.

Course Website OER: HNSC 1100 (Millsaps)
OER website containing all readings for Brooklyn College course HNSC 1100 (Millsaps) (site you're on now).

To unlock these chapters, the professor will provide students with a password.

I & R Chapter 1 (Page 8-21 and do activity on page 21 Behavior Change Contract)
Insel, P.M. Insel, C.E. and Roth, W.F. (2022). Connect Core Concepts in Health: Brief, (17th Ed.). New York: NY, McGraw Hill.
I & R Chapter 2 (pp.27-48)
Insel, P.M. Insel, C.E. and Roth, W.F. (2022). Connect Core Concepts in Health: Brief, (17th Ed.). New York: NY, McGraw Hill.
I & R Chapter 3
Insel, P.M. Insel, C.E. and Roth, W.F. (2022). Connect Core Concepts in Health: Brief, (17th Ed.). New York: NY, McGraw Hill.
I & R Chapter 4 Sleep
Insel, P.M. Insel, C.E. and Roth, W.F. (2022). Connect Core Concepts in Health: Brief, (17th Ed.). New York: NY, McGraw Hill.
I & R Chapter 6
Insel, P.M. Insel, C.E. and Roth, W.F. (2022). Connect Core Concepts in Health: Brief, (17th Ed.). New York: NY, McGraw Hill.
I & R Chapter 13
Insel, P.M. Insel, C.E. and Roth, W.F. (2022). Connect Core Concepts in Health: Brief, (17th Ed.). New York: NY, McGraw Hill.

Current Semester Syllabus

Each semester has a different syllabus. Download the print syllabus for this semester. Readings are listed on this OER site by "Topic".

HNSC 1100 Syllabus Spring 2023
Professor Millsaps Syllabus for their 2023 Winter Intersession Course HNSC 1100

Course General Info

Basic health concepts. Personal responsibility for health maintenance and improvement for individuals, families, and communities. *Starting Fall 2019 Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core Scientific World requirement.

By the end of the semester, students will be able to:

Identify and utilize reliable sources of personal and community health resources.
Identify the major behavioral, environmental social, medical determinants of health highlighting the impact on class and race/ethnicity.
Identify risk factors of ill-health and strategies to enhance health status in all communities.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Apply scientific knowledge to assess critically health data/information and indicators of health status at individual, societal, and structural levels.
Demonstrate analytical and communication skills for diverse audiences.
Demonstrate basic knowledge of health concepts and evidence-based practice for use in the academic context.
Demonstrate the importance of professional behavior, ethics, and human rights.

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