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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Dynamics of community and individual health. Factors in the promotion of a healthful lifestyle, including cardiovascular enhancement, stress reduction and coping mechanisms, nutritional awareness, weight management, and substance control. Available to non-major students.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces key health-behavior change theories and psychosocial determinants of health behaviors. Provides an overview of motivation, stress and coping, addiction, culture, and religion as related to health behavior. Laboratory emphasizes communication, leadership, and group-process activities.
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3.00 Credits
Specific values related to primary public health problems in today's multicultural society. Studies beliefs, attitudes, and values that affect behavior change. Includes value development and educational strategies that address values. Major project included.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the effect of the neurological system on physical health, with a focus on psychoneuro-immunology. Prerequisite: Anatomy and physiology, biochemistry.
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3.00 Credits
Basic and clinical pharmacology. Emphasizes drugs of concern to health-promotion specialists. Principles of drug addiction, drug receptors and pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and practical uses for drugs. Prerequisite: Anatomy and physiology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry.
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3.00 Credits
Examines national and global public health policy, initiatives, and programs targeting childbearing women as well as infants and children. Explores selected issues--such as poverty, access to and utilization of health care, violence, and perinatal chemical exposure--within socioeconomic, political, and ethical frameworks. Emphasizes interdisciplinary delivery of services within a public health setting.
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3.00 Credits
Studies developmental and health problems unique to the adolescent period of life. Focuses on special needs and public health programs designed to reach adolescents. Gives attention to special problems, such as social adaptation, juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, suicide, adolescent pregnancy.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Lecture and discussion of a current topic in health promotion bearing on the theory or practice of one aspect of the discipline. Specific content varies from quarter to quarter. May be repeated for additional credit.
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3.00 Credits
Discusses current lifestyle diseases, including: cardiovascular, metabolic, communicable, and nutritional. Concepts regarding risk factors, screening approaches, and risk reduction, with impact on specific health parameters. Prerequisite: Anatomy and physiology, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Explores causes and development of obesity, principles of weight management, and relapse prevention. Includes discussion of the causes and treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Prerequisite: or consent of instructor.
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