CS 102 - Health and Technology

Description:
Students will analyze the impact of health factors through construction of a personal health index calculator, create health analysis tools with instantaneous updating, and evaluate the pros and cons of technology in the health field.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Describe and interpret developments in health-related technology.
Collect data and manage storage, retrieval, processing, and analysis, using professional communication standards and tools.
Examine cost-benefit of working with this data.
Assemble a unique personal health index calculator and use it to practice program and data manipulation.
Summarize mechanisms of online data storage and retrieval and evaluate security of health data online.
Generate advantages and disadvantages of and report on the ethics of tracking health data. Support multiple viewpoints to develop empathy for others’ experiences.
Record and analyze personal data through quantitative reasoning using tables, plots, and graphs, and review to define trends.
Extrapolate data to create questions based on their specific results. Link data sources for rapid update of information.
Extract and analyze results from their personal information tracking database.
Create formulas that will provide answers about their nutritional status.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
1/4/18