Fall Semester Schedule:
Note: the table doesn't easily go into website format, so I summarize the course schedule list-wise below,
preceding each entry with M, W or F for Monday, Wednesday or Friday, respectively.
Co-instructors in charge below are, for brevity, referred to as Tania (for Dr. Tania Slawecki), Prof. Roy (for
Prof.
Rustum Roy), and Catherine (for Dr. Catherine Augustine).
T: Sept 2 - Tania, Catherine - intro & course schedule; Catherine - guest practitioners; VIDEO: Instant
Wound Healing
W: Sept 3 - Tania, Catherine - intro & course schedule; Catherine - guest practitioners; VIDEO: Instant
Wound Healing
F: Sept 5 - Tania: current health issues, historical evolution of allopathy
M: Sept 8 - Prof. Roy: Taking charge of your education - STS Education and why WPH is worth learning
W: Sept 10 - VIDEO: Peter Jennings/ABC News Special Report - Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the
Public Health
F: Sept 12 - Prof. Roy: the state of medicine, importance of real science, transition to Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (CAM)
M: Sept 15 - Tania: Western versus Eastern physiology; intro to diet and nutrition.
W: Sept 17 - CAM Fair at Pasquerella Spiritual Center (new building on campus) - all student
REQUIRED to attend (10 point penalty for missing it).
F: Sept 19 - GUEST: Monica Montag, MA, CN (Be Well Associates) - Nutrition, health, stress
M: Sept 22 - Tania: Plant-based medicine - Touch and Taste!
W: Sept 24 - GUEST: Dr. Dennis Clark, Arizona State University - Science and Herbal Medicine - from St.
Johns Wort for depression to Melissa Officianalis for herpes, what is effective?
F: Sept 26 - VIDEO: Dr. Malcolm Reilly - Dentistry and Alternative Medicine, the peridontal disease links
(part 1)
M: Sept 29 - VIDEO: Dr. Malcolm Reilly (part 2); Tania: heavy metals, toxins and health
W: Oct 1 - GUEST: Jenny Hwozdek - Homeopathy
F: Oct 3 - VIDEO: Dr. Wayne Jonas on Placebo Response (excerpts)
M: Oct 6 - GUEST: Dr. Gregory Pais - Naturopathy
W: Oct 8 - Tania: intro to mechanical approaches; Catherine: Craniosacral therapy; breathing
F: Oct 10 - “Study Day” - no classes
M: Oct 13 - GUEST: Dr. John Corneal - chiropractic and kinesiology
W: Oct 15 - Catherine: intro into mental/emotional approaches; Meditation
F: Oct 17 - Catherine and Tania: Sound and Light therapy; VIDEO excerpts and demos
M: Oct 20 - Tania: Prep for Hoxsey video and intro to the difficulties in understanding, treating and
monitoring "cures" of cancer; Cancer treatment alternatives intro; VIDEO: Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes
a Crime (Ken Ausubel's documentary), part 1
W: Oct 22 - Hoxsey video, part 2
F: Oct 24 - Hoxsey video, conclusion; Q&A + discussion with Prof. Roy
M: Oct 27 - GUEST: Kyla Stewart - Massage therapies, including Tai Massage and Shiatsu.
W: Oct 29 - Catherine - Eastern Medicine/TCM overview; VIDEO: scientific “proof” of meridians
F: Oct 31 - GUEST: Suzanne Persic - acupuncture and Chinese diagnostic methods
M: Nov 3 - GUEST: Sandy Erwin - Jin Shin Jyutsu (a Japanese acupressure-like method)
W: Nov 5 - GUEST: Catherine - Ayurvedic medicine
F: Nov 7 - Prof. Roy - Scientific underpinnings of Eastern medicine; QiGong - VIDEO: Effie Chow
M: Nov 10 - GUEST: Laurie Schoonhoven - QiGong
W: Nov 12 - Prof. Roy - Bigu phenomenon; scientific investigation of mind-over-matter (metal bending;
altering water)
F: Nov 14 - GUEST: Bill Russell (physicist) - Shamanism plus spoon bending by intention
M: Nov 17 - Prof. Roy - mind/spirit-over-body; Joao de Deus and other unusual healing phenomena.
W: Nov 19 - Dr. Jan Holland - Hypnotherapy and Distance Healing
F: Nov 21 - GUEST: Deborah Klein - Reiki
M: Nov 24 - Tania: optional self-help practicum - iridology, self-observation, use of dowsing as a way to
communicate with subconscious mind in self-diagnosis, use of meditation in diagnosis and healing.
W: Nov 26 - THANKSGIVING BREAK
F: Nov 28 - THANKSGIVING BREAK
M: Dec 1 - GUEST: Sharon Phillips - Barbara Ann Brennan Energy Medicine
W: Dec 3 - Tania: Scientific understanding of Energy Medicine; bioenergy field detection devices, etc.;
some VIDEO clips.
F: Dec 5 - TURN IN HEALTH CHARTS; VIDEOS: Pranic Healing, Dean Ornish, Jean Achterberg, Effie
Chow - focus on the heart
M: Dec 8 - Catherine - CAM & careers; local resources; alternative schools
W: Dec 10 - Prof Roy, Catherine & Tania; new framework for medicine; VIDEO: Planetree hospitals; Weil
excerpt
F: Dec 12 - Last class- evaluations; Final Q&A; discussion, review