Personal Hlth Sci & Wellness

Catalog description

This course objective acquaints students with scientific data on health issues that impact individuals, families, and society, encouraging an understanding of how personal factors, cultural norms, and social institutions shape health behaviors and decision-making. By incorporating discipline-specific methodologies, the course helps students analyze and predict individual and societal health outcomes, while also considering how privilege and oppression—rooted in structural inequalities, including race—affect both access to and the quality of health resources. Through this lens, students will explore disease prevention, health maintenance, and resource conservation strategies to enhance quality of life and apply these concepts to their own lives and communities. Undergraduate Core Curriculum: [Social and Behavioral Sciences]