General Information

• Name: Foundations of Personal Health and Wellness
• Discipline: Community Health Sciences (CHS)
• Units (Credits): 3
• Schedule History: See when this course was offered over the last three years.
• Transfer Information: Courses with numbers 100 to 299: This course is designed to apply toward a WNC degree and/or transfer to other schools within the Nevada System of Higher Education, depending on the degree chosen and other courses completed. It may transfer to colleges and universities outside Nevada. For information about how this course can transfer and apply to your program of study, please contact a counselor.
• Academic Division: Social Science, Education, Humanities & Public Service
• Prerequisites: None

Course Outline

I: Catalog Course Description

Covers the components and wellness and of lifelong tools that will help enhance wellness. health values, attitudes and behaviors of self and others will be explored. Students will be active in design and execution of personal fitness and wellness plans.

II: Course Objectives

This course will focus on decision-making skills. The lab exercises are to assess your fitness level at this point in your life. The supplemental assignment activities are to help reinforce and explore personal wellness information. Information will be presented through lecture and use of required text. Information when combined with personal lab experience, will blossom into knowledge that will allow you to take responsibility for your behaviors and develop individualized programs for lifelong fitness and wellness.

Outcomes:

• Show you that becoming fit and well greatly improves quality of life
• Show you how you can become fit and well
• Motivate you to make healthy choices and to provide you tools for change
• Develop a plan to improve individual areas of health, fitness, and wellness

III: Course Linkage

Linkage of course to educational program mission and at least one educational program outcome.

 have effective and efficient learning skills, including the location and evaluation of information.