Spring 2024, Section 001

3.00 Credits

Schedule Number 12921

Instructors: Vanderbrink, Jocelyn

Important Dates

  • First Day of Class:
  • End of Class:

Sample Course Syllabus

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Remarks

HPA 057 is designed to provide students with an understanding of the consumer's role in health care decisions. The growth in health care information resources, the expansion of for-profit medical care, the consumer revolution, and increasing cost pressure mean consumers must be aware of the critical issues involved in health care decisions. Consumer knowledge and decision-making affect the cost and quality of health care received. The main goal of this course is to educate students to become knowledgeable health care consumers. HPA 057 can be used as a General Education course for all Penn State students. It helps students learn how to gather information about health and health care and synthesize and analyze that information to make good choices that will enable them to achieve and maintain good health, including making healthful lifestyle choices. HPA 057 emphasizes that students must develop consumer skills, attitudes, and habits that will enable them to make the choices expected of consumers in today's health care system. Active learning is a critical component of HPA 057, as students must actively gather information and use it to make decisions. It requires students to write about the choices they make through assignments that demonstrate their understanding of the information resources and the reasoning underlying their choices.

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Materials

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Technical Requirements

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Software Requirements

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Note

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