COURSE INFORMATION

Course Title:

Into to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Credit Hours:

COURSE MATERIALS
Textbook Information

Foundations of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Software Requirements

Microsoft Office 2007 (or Later)

**Includes Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is meant to bring knowledge and experience to Complementary and Alternative
Medicine. This course will build on the concepts of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
The capstone course provides students with the opportunity to integrate and synthesize the
knowledge and skills acquired throughout their coursework in an oral project.

COURSE OUTCOMES
Course Outcomes: By the end of this course, you should be able to:

Apply the concepts of complementary and alternative medicine to design promotion

programs.

COURSE CALENDAR
Unit # and Topic

Assessments
Week 1
Foundations of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Chapter 1:
Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
Chapter 2:
Translation from
Conventional Medicine
Chapter 3:
Issues in Integrative
Medicine
Chapter 4:
Social and Cultural
Factors in Medicine
Week 2
Mind, Body and Spirit
Chapter 5:
Mind-Body, Thought and
Practice in Early and
Late America
Chapter 6:
Energy Medicine

Test 1: Chapters 1-6

Chapter 7:
The Art of Medicine
Chapter 8:
Creative and Expressive
Therapies
Week 3
Manual Therapies
Chapter 9:
Principles of Bodywork:
Manual & Touch
Therapies
Chapter 10:
Massage & Touch
Therapies
Chapter 11:
Traditional Chinese
Medicine
Chapter 12:
Western Herbalism
Chapter 13:
Global Perspectives

Test 2: Chapters 5-12

Final Due Last day of class

GRADING CRITERIA/COURSE EVALUATION

Assessments

Number

Points each

Tests

50

Assignment

50

Final

100
Total Points

200 Points

GRADING SCALE

Grade

Percentage

Grade Point

A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
F
W
MW

93-100%
90-92%
87-89%
83-86%
80-82%
77-79%
73-76%
70-72%
67-69%
60-66%
0-59%
Withdrawal
Military Withdrawal

4.0
3.7
3.3
3.0
2.7
2.3
2.0
1.7
1.3
1.0
0.0
N/A

FINAL
For your final, you will design a group of questions and find a place that practices CAM.
After, you will present an oral presentation in power point form about your experience.
You have the whole 3 weeks to find and present the final

INSTRUCTORS GRADING CRITERIA/TIMETABLE

All course projects submitted on time will be graded within 5 days of their due date (the Tuesday
of the following unit). Late work will be graded within 5 days of the submission date.

LATE POLICY
You are expected to submit all assignments and projects by the deadline giving by the
professor.
Students may turn in late work up to 3 days after the due date. After that, a zero will be
assigned for each assignment. Ten percent of the assignment value will be deducted
after the assignment is graded for each day that an assignment is late. For example, if
your assignment worth 100 points is due on Tuesday and you submit it on Wednesday,
10 points will be deducted after it is graded. If you submit it two days late, there will be a
reduction of 20% of the original assignment value after the assignment is graded.
All late work must be submitted by the third day after the Assignments and/or Projects is
due. No late work will be accepted after this without an Incomplete Grade approval.
Certain course activities may not be eligible for late submission. These include, but are
not limited quizzes, labs, and exams.
We know that extenuating circumstances can interfere with timely submission of your
work. Be sure to tell your professor right away if you are going to be late with a
submission.
Extenuating circumstances include, but are not limited to, personal/family member
hospitalization, family member death, a severe weather event, a natural disaster, and an
active military assignment.

ASSIGNMENTS/PROJECTS
Assignments and/or Projects are to be on my desk in the beginning of class on the due
date. After the first 10 minutes of class, the Assignments and/or Projects will be marked
as late and 10% will be taken off your grade.

HOW TO LABEL YOUR WORK

Projects: Please label your projects: Title, Name, and Date.