HPER 274 - Personal and Community Health and Hygiene

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
This course will present current information to students and enable them to make intelligent decisions concerning their physical, mental, and social well-being. The importance of positive personality and self-image is also stressed as a basis for sound health decisions. This course counts as an ELECTIVE toward an AA degree, NOT as an ACTIVITY COURSE.
Course Outcomes:

Assess personal physical and mental health.
Identify key components to healthy relationships.
Identify key components to healthy sexuality.
Summarize the risks fo alcohol and tobacco use.
Identify key components to healthy nutrition, weight managment, and stress management, and formulate a personalized fitness for life plan.
Recognize common diseases, causes, and prevention strategies.
List access points to health care.

Course Topics:

Assessing your health
Promoting and preserving your psychological health
Managing stress and coping with life’s challenges
Preventing violence and injury
Building healthy relationships and understanding sexuality
Recognizing and avoiding addiction and drug use
Drinking alcohol responsibly and ending tobacco use
Eating for a healthier you
Recahing and maintaining a healthy weight
Improving your personal fitness
Reducing your risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer
Protecting against infectious diseases and sexually transmitteed diseases
Preparing for aging, dying, and death
Promoting environmental health
Making smart health care choices

Course Attribute(s): Transferable Elective