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AHS 105Mental Health Literacy

Faculty
Health
Last listed
Spring 2022

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2022 and last ran in Spring 2022. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W20
  2. F20
  3. W21
  4. S21
  5. F21
  6. W22
  7. S22

Ran in 7 terms, Winter 2020 to Spring 2022.

This course will introduce students to mental health and wellness across the life span, with an emphasis on the postsecondary age group. AHS 105 considers mental health within the broader spectrum of health in our changing world. Through this course, students will increase their ability to recognize, manage, and strengthen mental health. Students will develop greater awareness of their own mental health and wellness through the application of the knowledge and skills learned in this course. In addition to considering mental health at the individual level, this course will focus on how to foster a culture of support and caring in community. This course is not intended to be a substitute for counselling.

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Reviewed on UW Flow

87% liked it79% easy68% useful

From 30 ratings and 12 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • One of my favourite courses at UW. It was easy (90+), interesting, and helpful. Definitely try to take this course in your first couple of years.

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  • Made me reflect on my mental health. This course was actually very useful.

    Apr 2024 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Overall, I would consider this a bird course. It was really useful, and you focused on your own mental health for a change. It was 4 quizzes followed by an ongoing mental wellness project focused on your own mental health, and some activity posts (like 3 of them). The work-load was very minimal, definitely take this during a stressful term to ease up your workload, and also better yourself. The quizzes themselves were open book and mostly involve testing course content, if you lightly trimmed through readings you can get an idea for how to answer the questions during the quiz for the reading ones. Quizzes were mostly multiple choice followed by 1-2 short answer, you had MORE THAN enough…

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  • Not as bird as you might think, assignments were marked fairly hard.

    Mar 2022 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • I actually quiet liked the content in the course. I think it was extremely useful and helpful. It talks a lot about your own mental health as well as others. I've always struggled with communication and how to respond to someone when they get serious, so this course really helped with that! The quizzes are fairly easy, just do the readings and the modules and you're set. An extremely insightful class. No final exam or midterm or term tests, just three quizzes. I'd just say that feedback for assignments could have gone a bit more in depth. Sometimes, there wouldn't be anything written, just the rubric, so you'd have to reach out to get the specifics. The assignments due dates were extremely…

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

58 posts and comments in 45 threads mention AHS 105, June 2020 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2023

Spring 2023

Bird health courses 1 point, 3 comments

“im a cs major and i need to take a science/health course to fulfil my breath and dept. Any recommendations for bird health courses? preferably with no final or quiz.”

u/AccomplishedLime3975: “HEALTH 105 (was originally AHS 105) ik this course has 3 quizzes but is bird. 30% mental health assignment broken down into 4 parts (straightforward and simple), 15% for 3 discussions (again, straightforward), and 45% for 3 non cumulative quizzes. …”

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Winter 2023

Fall 2022

AHS 100 (in-person) 8 points, 2 comments

“1) What’s the grade breakdown for this course? 2) How heavy is the workload? 4) What’s its level of difficulty (for someone who is not too familiar with Bio/health concepts)? …”

u/Fluffy_State_5360: “Hey! how was the course for you?”

u/Principal_Franklin: “I didn’t take it. I don’t think it was available for me at the time I was selecting courses so I took AHS 105 - the mental health course I think. But yeah, I dropped that in like 3 days or so…too much reading and assessments 😵‍💫”

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Spring 2022

Electives Fall 2022 1 point, 4 comments

“ISO electives for the fall term! I know of GEOG 219 & 225 which are online and bird courses, I’ve already taken these.”

u/mangosnmatcha: “AHS 105 (mental health literacy) is an easy class to take and the prof who runs the class is so so so nice!!”

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Winter 2022

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