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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This is an introduction to lifestyle behaviors over which people can exert some control; emphasis is on benefits of exercise and fitness, proper diet, and stress reduction, along with management of lifestyle behaviors important for good health and lifetime wellness; personal wellness goals are developed. This is a wellness course.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines historical and contemporary issues, cultural concerns, politics and practices, in analyzing the progress made in the sporting experiences for minorities and women in the United States. Through the lens of social justice, sport will be explored at all levels from the loss of opportunities in sports for minority children to the illusion of equity in collegiate and professional sports for women. The positioning of sport in society is examined via the gender-race power relationships that emerge through sport.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the demographics of aging, the social, biological, psychological, and functional experience of aging, the concept of successful aging, and the careers available in working with older adults. Cross-listed with PSY 180.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses health sciences as a coherent group of disciplines concerned about the functional health of the individual. It focuses on several topics including areas of concern and study in health sciences, service delivery, the nature of the services provided, opportunities within selected fields, the relationship of each field with other related fields within the health sciences, and the impact of changes in health-care delivery on these fields.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the influence of cultural values and beliefs on sexual practices; provides an overview of sexual biology; and considers the ways in which culture affects sexuality, sex education, and reproductive practices. Cross-listed with ANT 221.
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1.00 Credits
This online course offers a systematic approach to understanding medical terminology. The focus is to enable students to use this specialized language in a professional health care environment and in scholarly and professional writing. The course is designed to meet the prerequisite requirement for admission to professional programs in the health sciences.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on human development in the first three years of life. It examines normal developmental and health-promoting factors for the prenatal and 0-to 3-year periods. Among the topics covered are intellectual, social, emotional, and physical growth processes. The course also explores the psychological, social, and cultural influences on infant development, including risk and protective factors for infant health. It also examines factors related to optimal infant development, and the broader social implications of development in the first three years of life.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: One of any of the following courses: HSC 200 (Introduction to Health Careers); ANT 100 (Human Diversity); PSY 101 (Introduction to Psychology); SWK 200 (Introduction to Social Work); SOC 101 (Introduction to Sociology); or permission of instructor. This course examines the ways in which culture affects health and health care, including perceptions of health, disease, treatments, and the values associated with these factors. The need for cultural sensitivity in health care is stressed.
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3.00 Credits
Environmental Health is an introductory survey of environmental health concepts with an emphasis on toxic exposures, hazard identification, and management strategies. Offered online.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines social issues that influence health and illness through the study of disability and medical rehabilitation. Perspectives of health care practitioner, consumer, regulator, and investor are used to investigate control issues, mutual decision making, and socioeconomic inequalities.
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