Health Promotion and Lifetime Wellness

Catalog description

This course explores the behaviors in which college students should engage to reduce their risk of acute and chronic diseases and premature death. An emphasis on positively enhancing the dimensions of health and wellness as a resource for college students to meet their short- and long-term goals is emphasized. By focusing on determinants of health as associated to the college student, individual, social, and physical behaviors and conditions will be explored through lecture, self-evaluative experiences, personal fitness and physical activity assessments, experiences, and behavior change principles.