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From
Cosby Rogers at VTU
Faculty met yesterday to discuss strategies for assisting
students to begin recovery/healing. We want students to be
able to get back in the saddle by providing strong
encouragement to re-engage with each other and find ways to
relate their content areas to healing, hope, health.
We thank you for your love and support and for the TLT
special website.
The GOOD NEWS is that there are rumors of a take-home
assignment for a course in Epidemology (Dept. of HNFE).
DRAFT of Assignment for Sarah Rogers's class in Epidemology
(Dept. of HNFE)
Subject: Rumors
of Epidemic of Hugs and Hope: Service Learning for Final
Take Home Exam
My daughter teaches Epidemiology for the Dept. of HNFE.
How can she make this nonsense relevant and also contribute
to healing?
In-class exercise (or take home service-learning exam):
Love is contagious. Apply what you have learned about _____
in Epidemology to start an epidemic. Today's in-class
exercise will be to meet in groups of four to plan an
epidemic.
Background information: Love is contagious. The manifested
symptoms are _______ and is carried by a heart-shaped
bacterium.
Part I: What are the symptoms of love? How is it
transmitted? By what methods can it be assessed? How can
one measure the spread?
Part II (The spread): Go about campus and town spreading the
bacteria (using hugs, words, or symbols such as paper hearts
for symbols). Actively transmit the bacteria and encourage
others to do so. Document each form of contact you make
with others (eye contact, touch, hugs, other symptomatic
behavioral gestures).
Part III: Assessment. After 12 hours, assess signs of
contagion at randomly specified locations within a five-mile
radius of campus.
Present documentation of both your participation in the
contagion and of changes observed within 12 hours. Turn in
the documentation form no later than _____. Then keep on
spreading the ease (not DIS-ease).
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