Thoughts about Health 312

For me, this class was what I thought it would be, but it helps to have a refresher every now and then. I have learned certain tidbits here and there but nothing contributed to me having a big revelation. Most of this information, I had already learned throughout my life, but I can see just by looking across the classroom at times, that I may have been the only one. At different times throughout the term, people seemed to be shocked about things I thought were completely trivial, and I think that is what surprised me the most about the class. The reaction some people had to different topics is what caught my focus and made me wonder how my upbringing was different from others. To be honest, I just believe its the fact that when it comes to diseases, nothing surprises me anymore, its as though I have seen it all.

With that said, I don't believe I am one to tell you what I would or wouldn't change about the class. On second thought, I believe the ethics portion of the class needs to be presented at the beginning of the course in more of an open-forum discussion that gets everyone in the class involved, or forces them. That way you can single out the narrow-minded people and well, since they are narrow minded, they will be forced to participate as narrow-minded people, as I have learned over the years, do not like to be singled out. Also, an open-forum ethics talk about stigmatizations about STIs should occur at the end so people may voice what they have learned over the term that way as a teacher, you know if the message you were sending was "hitting home" with these individuals.

I do consider this an important university level class, I believe it keeps the minds of individuals open to the world of sexually transmitted infections and the social impacts of having them. It has been a fun class, it has been an interesting class, and as a final goodbye to this last blog, I leave you with a quote:

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle