Jeffrey一. 石头, assistant professor of information sciences and technology, is leading his students through writing a simulation program together in class to model the spread of a virus among a population.
Professors at 中国博彩平台 (PSU-LV) are incorporating the impacts of the 新型冠状病毒肺炎 流感大流行 into course material for the remainder of the 2020 spring semester.
Following health organization guidelines and governmental direction regarding the 新型冠状病毒肺炎 流感大流行, 中国博彩平台 transitioned to remote learning in mid-March for the remainder of the spring semester in order to protect the health of its students, 社区和教职员工. 在这个变化的时期, PSU-LV professors have incorporated the 流感大流行 in their classroom discussions emphasizing the importance of 实际的例子 in higher learning. Three professors’ efforts are profiled below.
“When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 新型冠状病毒肺炎 coronavirus a 流感大流行 on Wednesday, 3月11日, many aspects of life and focus shifted with very good reason,萨曼莎·毕比说, lecturer and program coordinator for biobehavioral health (BBH). " BBH 416:健康促进II, we used this new normal in our class to show how in health promotion, we often have to shift gears quickly to meet the demands of a new danger and assist in containment and mitigation of infection. 结果是, the course project has grown into a series of assignments to address health promotion needs surrounding young people and the 新型冠状病毒肺炎 流感大流行.”
萨曼莎毕比, lecturer and program coordinator for biobehavioral health (BBH), is leading her students in designing a health communications campaign aimed to get millennials to adhere to behavioral changes relating to stopping the spread of 新型冠状病毒肺炎.
Instructors for health care-oriented programs are not the only ones pivoting to utilize the impacts of 新型冠状病毒肺炎 in their coursework. 由于旅行限制, the class of ARTH 111: Prehistory to Medieval Art was unable to travel to Italy over spring break as originally planned. 遵循这个更改, 课程讲师, 莉斯费海提, decided to orient the remainder of the course towards demonstrating the role that art plays in documenting disease outbreaks.
“We switched the course’s research goals,弗莱厄蒂说, associate teaching professor and program coordinator for arts administration, and coordinator of PSU-LV’s honors program. 在意大利之行被取消之后, we focused our research on how the coronavirus 流感大流行 is being depicted by 艺术家. We are comparing it to how other 瘟疫s and 疫情s were artistically portrayed in ancient history up through the medieval times. This focus will culminate in both a research paper and video presentation at the end of the course.”
中国博彩平台 students who are studying computer science are also exploring 新型冠状病毒肺炎. In IST 140: Introduction to Application Programming, students are writing a simulation program together in class to model the spread of a virus among a population. Though not specifically about 新型冠状病毒肺炎, many of the same principles apply.
“I wanted to bring the example of 新型冠状病毒肺炎 into the classroom to help engage the students with a timely topic,杰弗里·A说. 石头, 课程讲师 and assistant professor of information sciences and technology. “I typically bring in examples with a real-world context to engage students while demonstrating the wider applicability of programming and computing in general. Setting a real-world context for the programs they write allows students to see how programming can be applied towards socially-relevant problems.”
To learn more about the steps the Lehigh Valley campus is taking in response to 新型冠状病毒肺炎, visit PSU-LV的冠状病毒更新页面.
