Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HE 250 Personal Health
Lecture Hours: 3
Credits: 3
Presents basic information concerning the social, emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual and environmental aspects of personal health and wellness. Emphasizes health enhancing skills and behaviors. Provides an opportunity to apply and practice decision-making models regarding personal health issues.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Create a self-monitoring system for one behavior.
- Compare illness and wellness behavior and relate to personal health.
- Identify decision-making skills and apply decision-making techniques to consumer issues.
- Evaluate stress management techniques that encourage wellness.
- Identify stress management techniques that reduce the chance of specific illness.
Additional learner outcomes from the following options will be discussed in class or chosen as part of project based learning:
- Define sexuality.
- List characteristics of mental health.
- Compare gender roles.
- List abusive aspects of tobacco.
- Compare substance use and abuse.
- Identify healthy fitness behaviors.
- Identify a personal fitness plan.
- Define aging and compare the stages of life.
- Construct a lifetime plan of action for aging, including death.
- Identify disease risk factors and behavior change strategies.
- Explore prevention strategies related to body’s defense system.
- Contract personal study of additional topics.
Content Outline
- Six Areas of Health and Wellness
- Social
- Emotional
- Intellectual
- Physical
- Spiritual
- Environmental
- Decision-Making Model
- 6-step process
- 5-step process
- Student-developed model
- Basic Lecture Topics
- Health and wellness
- Decision-making and behavior management
- Stress
- Goal setting
- Self esteem
- Delineating needs and wants
- Assertive behavior
- Inter- and intra-personal intervention
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Nutrition
- Communicable and non-communicable diseases
- Health and developmental stages
- Death and dying
- Environmental health
- Other topics throughout the term in class and group projects include:
- Sex and your body
- Toward a tobacco free society
- The responsible use of alcohol
- The use and abuse of psychoactive drugs
- Nutrition facts and fallacies
- Weight management
- Exercise for health and fitness
- Cardiovascular health
- Cancer
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Infection and immunity
- Aging
- Dying and death
- Disease pathology and genetics
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