Values, Health, & Academic Success

Catalog description

This course will simultaneously address concepts related to Health & Wellness as well as address areas of academic transition for first year students. Essentially this course was designed to address all areas of life that students will encounter during their first semester of school. This course will address several aspects of a first-year students' social wellness that includes healthy relationships, alcohol awareness, sexual ethics, sexual health, mental health, positive decision making, as well as bystander intervention. This course will also address the physical wellness of first year students by addressing alcohol consumption and the impact that it has on the body physically, healthy eating and food selection on a college campus, as well as learning how to be aware of their unconscious biases and how to live in society with people different than themselves. Additionally, this course will address the intellectual needs for enrolled students within their first academic year by outlining the academic expectations outlined by Penn State University. Students will understand how essential organization and time management is within higher education, the benefits of getting to know their professors, planning their paths to graduation, goal setting, financial literacy, resume' development as well as an extensive review of institutional academic integrity policies and its implications of academic violations. The course hopes to become an initial spring board, where students can use the information presented to guide them throughout the next 3 years of their undergraduate careers.