CG 216 - Understanding Eating Issues

Institution:

Lane Community College

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Description:

3 credits This course is a general interest course for students who want to learn about the dynamics of eating issues. The course format includes large and small group activities, theoretical presentations, regularly assigned readings, written assignments and several quizzes. The course focus includes exploring the psychological, environmental, and personal dynamics that leads to eating for comfort, compulsive eating, anorexia and bulimia. There is an emphasis in using analytical tools to help explore such questions as, why have over half of all Americans developed eating issues that impinge on their health and limits their daily activities? And, what are the family dynamics, media ideal for thinness and commercial influences on obesity that affect how we think about food; and what we eat. In exploring the question, How do we heal? , the course focuses on different methods both traditional and nontraditional that others have used in their healing process that improved their relationship with themselves and their eating.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Lanecc.edu

Phone Number:

(541) 463-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Quarter

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