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3.00 Credits
Provides learning instruction geared toward certification as a personal trainer following the American College of Sports Medicine recommendations. The course focuses on anatomy and physiology; exercise physiology; bioenergetics; and program design using concepts of strength, endurance, flexibility, power, and cardiovascular endurance. Offered spring semester only. ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
Studies organizational patterns, administrative problems, and supervisory techniques in health, fitness, and recreation agencies. Includes financial management, personnel, public relations, liability, evaluation, and facility management. Offered fall semester only. Prerequisite: EN 102. ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
Provides information and experience in the administration and interpretation of health risk appraisals and health-related fitness tests. Tests include blood pressure, body composition analysis, strength, endurance, flexibility assessment, and submaximal cycle ergometry. Offered fall semester only. Prerequisite: HPR 202. ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
Course covers basic principles of development of safe and individualized cardiovascular conditioning, muscular strength, and flexibility programs. Includes leadership techniques for aerobics and resistance training programs. Offered spring semester only. Prerequisites: HPR 202 and HPR 302. ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to transcultural theories, concepts, and principles that help to explain the health care needs and responses of individuals and groups within the context of their cultures and subcultures. An emphasis is placed on the conduct of culturally competent assessments. Offered fall and summer semesters only. Prerequisite: EN 102. (Also listed as NU 304.) ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
Examines the role of nutrition in maintaining health through the life span. Includes information on macro- and micronutrients, weight management, sports nutrition, and disease prevention. (Nursing students should take HPR 345.) This course fulfills the Liberal Arts Core requirement for a Health and Wellness course for transfer students entering 2009-10 or earlier and those who entered the University in 2008-09 or earlier. Offered fall semester only. Prerequisite: EN 101. ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the nurses' role in the management of therapeutic nutrition in promoting health and/or managing illness. The collaborative and teaching roles of the nurse are addressed and specific interventions are identified for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention for clients receiving nutritional therapy. Knowledge and interventions needed for maximizing therapeutic effects and preventing or minimizing adverse effects of therapy are emphasized. Offered spring semester only. Prerequisites: EN 101 and BIO 161. Prerequisite or corequisite: BIO 162. ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the depth and breadth of sports psychology, including its history, definition, ties with other disciplines, modern applications, and research techniques. Special attention is paid to the design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of pure and applied sports psychology research. Offered in spring semester, alternating years, only. Prerequisite: PSY 101 or HPR 201. (Also listed as PSY 361.) ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
Offers students the opportunity for supervised, practical experience in the organization and administration of physical fitness programs and further skills in direct leadership. Placement options include community, corporate, or commercial fitness/recreation facilities or within a sports medicine setting such as a physical therapy clinic. This is the culminating experience for Health Science majors. Offered each semester. ( 3)
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3.00 Credits
A holistic approach to understanding stress. Analysis of causative psychosocial stressors and intervening physiological mechanisms. Emphasis on prevention and control of stress through such techniques as meditation, exercise, biofeedback, nutrition, and neuromuscular relaxation. This course fulfills the Liberal Arts Core requirement for a Health and Wellness course for transfer students entering 2009-10 or earlier and those who entered the University in 2008-09 or earlier. Offered spring semester only. Prerequisite: EN 102. (Also listed as PSY 406.) ( 3)
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