EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENTS

119:152:BIOMEDICAL ISSUES of HIV/AIDS
FALL 2004

FIRST EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT (10 points):

Take the "Student Assessment of Learning Gains Survey" (SALG) before September 20, 2004
Go to the following URL to access the instrument:
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/salgains/stu/default.asp

Use following information to access the site:
Course ID: 162
Course Password: Biomedissues
Student ID: the LAST 4 numbers in your Social Security Number

SECOND EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT (10 points):

DUE IN CLASS ON 23 Ocotober 2004

AIDS in Entertainment

Write a critical review of FOUR different forms of entertainment media in which HIV/AIDS issues are significant, i.e., watch a movie, watch a play, read a poem, read a novel, listen to music, watch a television special, etc.

For each example: 1)describe its content, 2)appropriate level of explanation to uninformed individuals, 3)relevance to the population or community it portrays, 4)proposal for solution to problems.

Then collect comments from three other people about your critical review of each form of entertainment. (The same three people can read the four forms of media.)(Questions for Critical Review: What aspects of AIDS were communicated in this form of entertainment? How were these aspects presented? Did you understand this reference to AIDS before you reveiwed this work? What other references to HIV/AIDS might be found in this work?)

THIRD CREDIT ASSIGNMENT (10 points):

DUE IN CLASS ON 11 DECEMBER 2004

CURRENT EVENTS: Read it, Understand it, Explain it.
CLIP 10 CURRENT (as of 1 September 2004) NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON ISSUES OF HIV OR AIDS
WRITE NO MORE THAN ONE PAGE OF EXPLANATION OR BACKGROUND ON EACH ONE

FOURTH AND LAST EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT (10 points):

Take the "Student Assessment of Learning Gains Survey" (SALG)
After December 11, but before December 20, 2004
Go to the following URL to access the instrument:
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/salgains/stu/default.asp

Use following information to access the site:
Course ID: 162
Course Password: Biomedissues
Student ID: the LAST 4 numbers in your Social Security Number