Health and Wellness (HLTH)

Provides knowledge and skills to help create a safe environment to prevent the risk of accidents and to deal with breathing, cardiac, and thermoregulatory emergencies; musculoskeletal injuries; and poisonings. Develops competencies in first aid, CPR, and AED use. Requires fees.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Yearly.

Meets: Natural Science: HKSM

Provides necessary knowledge and skills to develop a personal fitness/wellness program and to achieve greater lifelong health and wellness. Requires workouts outside of the scheduled class period.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall, Spring.

Meets: Social & Behavioral Science: HKSM

Develops an understanding of the interaction of good nutrition and wellness. Focuses on nutritional strategies to maximize health including the needs and considers responses of special populations to diet. Community-based learning designation.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall, Spring.

Meets: Natural Science: HKSM, Community Based Learning

Provides a comprehensive overview of critical, contemporary women's health topics and a framework for informed personal and social health decision-making. Includes health status and implications, nutrition and fitness; sexuality and reproductive health; violence in women's lives; heath of women across the life span; chronic diseases; and substance use/abuse issues. Community-based learning designation.

Prerequisites: At least sophomore standing.

Offered: Occasionally.

Meets: Community Based Learning

Examines selected topics in health and wellness.

Prerequisites: Varies by topic.

Offered: Occasionally.

Provides opportunity for independent work in health and wellness under faculty supervision.

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department chair.

Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.