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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with scientific information on many of today's important health related topics and issues. Using current events and evolving research, emphasis is on the leading causes of death and the development of personal wellness plans to help prevent life-style diseases. There is a major focus on self-assessment and up-to-date data from the fields of stress management, nutrition, weight management and physical fitness. (*)
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3.00 Credits
Covers knowledge that applies to the promotion of good health of the individual, family and society. Emphasis is on various health needs defined as the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual aspects. Emphasis is placed upon stress management, disease prevention, fitness, nutrition and the development of an effective wellness lifestyle. (*)
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3.00 Credits
Covers knowledge that applies to the promotion of good health of the individual, family and society. Emphasis is on various health needs defined as the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual aspects. Emphasis is placed upon stress management, disease prevention, fitness, nutrition and the development of an effective wellness lifestyle. (*)
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3.00 Credits
Course provides scientific knowledge about sexuality, which enables the application and promotion of good health. For self, family and society. Emphasis is on human sexual biological systems and responses, reproduction and birthing/ control, gender identify/role, sexuality through the life cycle, sexual relationships and sexual values, sexual dysfunction/therapy and sexually transmitted diseases.
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3.00 Credits
Licit and illicit, use, misuse, and abuse of drugs on human behavior and society engender major social (institutional) problems. The impact on individual lives, health costs and social consequences is staggering. Included are the biological and historical information about drugs and scientific aspects of their pharmacological effects on mind and body.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the nation's community health system and related educational functions. Surveyed are historical and administrative structures, concepts and scope of varied programs, (county, state and federal) topical treatment of major contemporary health problems and the relatedness of health education and community functions. (*)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides preparation for health- related vocations with the commonly used medical terminology. The components of medical terms are analyzed, terms are defined and use of medical dictionary and related sources are emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Study of epidemiology as a scientific discipline and its role in health service planning and administration. Emphasis on methods for studying chronic disease, public health, vital statistics, sanitation, and communicable disease.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth view of digestion, absorption, the metabolic pathways of the nutrients and hormonal regulation of these pathways. Factors related to regulating energy needs, current government dietary guidelines, specific lifecycle needs and research-based standards for analyzing nutrient adequacy are examined. Concerns with food-borne illness and water contamination are also reviewed. (*)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth view of digestion, absorption, the metabolic pathways of the nutrients and hormonal regulation of these pathways. Factors related to regulating energy needs, current government dietary guidelines, specific lifecycle needs and research-based standards for analyzing nutrient adequacy are examined. Concerns with food-borne illness and water contamination are also reviewed. (*)
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