So if we know that people are not doing well out in the community,
if we know that social circumstances are part of what bring on mental illness for
some people, then what are we prepared to do in our communities to make them more
mentally healthy places?
That is certainly a topic we are going to return to in this course as well.
So I look forward to discussing that with you and
hearing about your thoughts on that in the discussion forum.
So I've mentioned the discussion forum a few times, and
in closing I'm just going to tell you a little bit about what's going to be
happening with regard to homework and discussion forums over the course of this.
So the first thing is we are going to set up discussion forums for every lecture
that will have questions posted that I hope you will engage in discussion about.
And then also a section for questions about the readings and
maybe there will be other things that Coursera builds in.
But there'll definitely be those opportunities for
discussion amongst yourselves.
And of course I will be getting involved as well.
So, I'll be reviewing what's in the discussion forums,
with some help of course.
And what I'm hoping is that if there are things that really seem to be hot topics,
maybe they're being voted up by you, or
there's a lot of people posting about them.
Then I'll do some kind of a video response in between lectures to respond to
whatever that is.
The other thing is that we are going to have homework.
It is a course.
[LAUGH] We're going to have some homework.
And what we've decided to do is have homework assignments every other week.
So that one week you're working on your homework assignment.
And the next week you have time to also be marking assignments of your colleagues.
So hopefully it's enough to keep it stimulating for you, but not too onerous.
And I really think they're going to be on interesting topics and
things that you'll really enjoy.
So I look forward to seeing what you do with those homework questions as well.
So, that's it It for our first lecture and
I will look forward to seeing you next week.