Focuses is on how to lead a healthy lifestyle throughout life. Provides assessment of current level of wellness and introduces topics of health such as nutrition, stress management, aging, exercise, and holistic health.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
To develop healthy lifestyle habits students will follow for the rest of their lives.
- A Introduction of Lifetime Wellness
Differentiate between health and wellness. Recognize characteristics of a healthy person.
- Physical Fitness
Recall how to train for improvement of strength, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance and flexibility. Practice a pattern of regular exercise throughout the semester. Explain what is considered a good level of physical fitness.
- Drug and Alcohol Use
Differentiate between drug use and misuse. Explain acceptable alcohol use. Recognize successful treatments for drug and alcohol abuse.
- Nutrition for Health
Discuss the basis of a healthy diet.
- Preventing Violence and Abuse
Recognize signs and symptoms of abuse. Recall places to seek help for victims of abuse.
- Principles of Weight Management
Discuss how healthy fat loss, weight gain and weight maintenance is achieved.
- Preventing Chronic Disease
Assess risks for developing disease (cancer, cardiovascular and diabetes) and recall ways to decrease the risks.
- Complementary Medicine
Describe how best to use complementary medicine. Recognize common acceptable uses of complementary medicine.
- Stress Management
Recognize stressors in life and learn various tools to help alleviate stress.
- Smoking Cessation
Assess the dangers of smoking and how best to stop a smoking habit.
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Explain what behaviors increase risk of sexually transmitted disease. Recognize common STDs. Recall ways to protect from STDs.
- Training to Become an Educated Consumer
Recognize quackery and fraud in wellness and how and where to find legitimate answers to health questions.
Assessment and Requirements
Text choice is left to the discretion of the instructor.
Outcomes
Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Determined by department.