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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course provides an overview of the holistic benefits of yoga as a health and wellness program. Students will participate and experience yoga as they learn the components of yoga. By voluntarily selecting to participate in the yoga course students recognize that the course requires physical exertion and may be strenuous at times. Any possible injury incurred is the student's full responsibility.
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3.00 Credits
The course is an introductory course for health care providers in addition to those having an interest in the root cause of disease. The course will explore the principles of Lifestyle Medicine, focusing on the population and the relationship of the environment and other associated causes leading to chronic disease. Topics such as Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease, and the correlation to lifestyle habits will be further investigated. The course will dive deeper into the pillars of lifestyle medicine: Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep, Emotional wellbeing, Avoiding substances, Positive psychology, Hydration, and more.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the importance of holistic health, giving the student an opportunity to explore their own health and wellness from a multidimensional approach. The course will address basic nutrition, exercise, disease prevention, personal safety, stress, and mental health.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the benefits of exercise, muscle strengthening and conditioning including education on basic nutritional needs during and after exercise.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide the student with the knowledge and tools necessary to educate clients with the proper exercise prescription and basic nutritional recommendations. Key physiological and psychological concepts will be discussed in directing clients to achieve the best results in health and wellness. From human movement to fitness concepts and assessments, the student will learn the essential skills if they desire to become a personal trainer in the future. A ten (10) hour Professional Trainer observation experience will be completed during this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introductory course to provide the fundamentals of human nutrition to enable students to understand and think critically about the complex interrelationships between food, nutrition, health and environment. Students will learn the components of a healthy diet, and their health implications; understand the major nutritional problems that affect individuals and populations from conception and throughout the life cycle; and understand the scientific basis for nutritional recommendations.
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3.00 Credits
Students become novice disease detectives, while they investigate the chain of disease transmission. The disease detectives will be introduced to the basic concepts of epidemiology in relationship to the distribution of health, the determinants of health in a population, populations at risk, progression of disease and the impact of disease. The important role of a Contact Tracer will also be discussed. By the end of the class students will have a better understanding of the importance of "cover your mouth and wash your hands".
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3.00 Credits
This course is an extensive study of contemporary palliative and end-of-life topics. These topics include palliative health care and health care worker roles; ethical issues; cultural considerations; communication; leadership; pain management; symptom management; final hours; loss, grief, and bereavement. This course will utilize a variety of learning activities such as readings, audiovisuals, case studies, web resources, discussion, writing, and reflection.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, the student identifies and discusses factors affecting the dying individual and the responses of families and caregivers as they deal with the changes and events that occur with dying. This will be done within the context of age, gender, and cultural beliefs about death and grieving. The student will explore current economic and ethical issues related to dying as presented by the media, in literature, and in actual experiences.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the meaning of health and illness both personally and for the health care consumer. Potential conflicts between the consumer and the health care system are identified and viable solutions to overcome barriers are explored.
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