Stress Management

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Demonstrate expanded understanding of stress studies and related constructs (i.e. eustress, adversity, resilience, trauma, etc).

• Demonstrate the ability to think systemically about the causes of and contributing factors to stress.

• Conceptualize the impact of the stress response on the individual: cognitively, affectively, physiologically, & interpersonally.

• Identify and demonstrate comprehension of different evidence-based coping skills and effective responses to stress, as well as the mechanisms of how they work.

• Increase abilities to recognize personal signs and symptoms of stress cognitively, affectively, physiologically, interpersonally, & spiritually for personal application.

• Increase abilities to intentionally engage in evidence-based, effective coping responses for stress for lifelong learning and growth.

• Demonstrate knowledge of factors that contribute to physical and/or mental health.

• Analyze the connection(s) of different aspects of wellness (i.e. choices or actions to achieve health/well-being) to the overall health of an individual or population.

• Synthesize information from multiple sources to support arguments and/or inform decisions.

• Integrate and cite sources accurately and correctly.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Course Orientation Quiz and Syllabus Annotation	10 points
Attendance and Participation	290 points
Team Project: Stress Management Research	100 points
Experiential Self-Care Project	100 points
Vacc Clinic Counseling or Alternative Assignment	20 points
TOTAL	520 points

Grading Scale

Points	Percentage	Letter Grade
481 - 520	93% and above	A
466 - 480	90-92%	A-
450 - 465	87-89%	B+
429 - 449	83-86%	B
414 - 428	80-82%	B-
398 - 413	77-79%	C+
377 - 397	73-76%	C
362 - 376	70-73%	C-
310 - 361	60-69%	D
0 - 309	0-59%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Due to the experiential and discussion-based nature of this course, class attendance is required and essential for your learning. Students are permitted three absences (excused and unexcused) during the semester without a grade penalty or instructor approval. Each class attended earns you 10 points toward your total 290 points for Attendance and Participation (see grading scale and assignment). After three absences, you will lose 10 points from your attendance grade for each subsequent absence.

Active engagement is an important part of this course. Actively engaged students are alert, attentive, active participants in discussions and small group activities, ask questions, and appear focused on the classroom environment. You will get the most out of this class if you are actively applying the material to your life through several opportunities, inside and outside the classroom.

Disengagement may look like using a laptop or cell phone for purposes unrelated to class activities (e.g., using social media, texting, shopping), sleeping, and other non-actively participating behaviors such as leaving class for long periods of time. 3 points may be deducted per day from your participation score for students who are disengaged in class, subject to the instructor’s discretion.

If you experience illness, injury, crisis, or emergency, please contact the instructor as early as possible to determine if your absence is excused, or if further documentation and formalized, ongoing supports through the Office of Accessibility Resources & Services are needed to help you succeed in this course.

You are responsible for information that is covered and assignments that are due on days that you are absent. Absences for projects, in-class activities, or presentations will be excused only in cases where documentation of illness or other circumstances warranting an absence, such as serious family emergencies, family events (weddings or funerals), special curricular requirements (e.g., professional conferences), military obligation, severe weather conditions, religious holidays, participation in official university activities, and court-imposed obligations (e.g., jury duty or subpoena).

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.