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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)

General Education Category: K8 - Science & Technology

General Education Pathways: P2 Health & Well-being

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:
5/6/19

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Fall Locations: Ellensburg Winter Locations: Ellensburg Spring Locations: Ellensburg



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