Health and Wellness (HLTH)

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.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall, Spring.

Meets: Natural Science: HKSM

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.

Prerequisites: At least sophomore standing.

Offered: Occasionally.

Explores the theory and practice of leading and managing exercise science programs. Community-based learning designation.

Prerequisites: Junior/senior standing.

Offered: Yearly.

Meets: Community Based Learning

Addresses the health needs of an aging population covering multifaceted dimensions of wellness the aging process. Focuses on biological, psychological, social, and political factors emphasizing health promotion.

Prerequisites: HLTH 270 or BIOS 109.

Offered: Occasionally.

Examines problem issues in health and hygiene including pollution, drugs, nutrition, disease, sanitation, and personal safety.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Occasionally.

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.