"Fit Body, Fit Mind"
Health & Wellness Education
A complete guide of health & wellness education courses are
listed below.
*** Clicking on each course will take you directly to the online course listing
and registration pages***
How to Register For Health & Wellness Education Courses:
Courses:
- Click on the course link.
- Choose the term during which you would like to take the class (Summer '10, Fall '10, Spring '11)
- Scroll through the "Subject" options until you find Phys Fitn: Health/Fitn Wlns, and highlight with curser.
- Click the Get Courses button.
- Find the call and course numbers of the class you want and click the lab or lab/lecture highlighted link.
- You must then enter secured login by clicking on the secured login highlighted link and following the prompts.
PFHW
100 - Health and Wellness Seminar
This course
introduces the student to 8 hours of various
topics
related to health awareness, wellness, and/or
prevention of
lifestyle-related illness.
PFHW
105 - Medical Alternatives for Health & Wellness
This course
discusses alternatives in maintaining
health and
correcting illness. The students will examine
the six major
medical systems, as well as many alternative
therapies
from around the world.
PFHW
123 - Human Nutrition
An
introductory course in human nutrition. Topics include
digestion,
absorption, metabolism, and biological functions
of nutrients;
nutrition needs throughout the life cycle;
relationship
of nutrition and eating patterns to health and
disease;
individual and societal influences on food choices;
and the role
of government in food safety and security.
PFHW
133 - Therapeutic Touch and Yoga
This course
will combine the theories and practices of yoga
and
Therapeutic Touch. The foundation of TT is yoga
meditation.
Classes provide practice in Energy Theory
as it applies
to individual learners and as an agent of
healing.
Balanced with TT will be breathing and relevant
research and
theory.
PFHW
163 - Healthy Lifestyles
This course
introduces the student to lifestyle skills that lead
to better
health. The student will learn healthy nutritional
habits, basic
fitness concepts, positive stress reduction, and
development
of a personalized healthy lifestyle plan.
Assessment
skills and wellness concepts will be put into
practice.
PFHW
164 - Fire Science Healthy Lifestyle
This course
introduces students to lifestyle skills that lead to
better
health. The student will learn healthy nutritional habits,
fitness
concepts, stress reduction, coping skills for the
physical and
mental challenges of fire science and
develop a
personalized healthy lifestyle plan. Fitness and
wellness
concepts will be demonstrated and practiced.
PFHW
181 - Stress Management
This course
helps students understand the basic
components of
the stress response and how they limit our
physical,
mental, and emotional well-being. Students learn
and apply
basic principles that help to resolve stressful
situations
and lead to greater sense of ease and pleasure
in life,
work, and relationships.
PFHW
190 - Wilderness Survival Tech
This course
provides basic outdoor survival skills and
techniques to
campers, outdoor enthusiasts, and group
leaders.
Among the topics are shelter, fire, water, signals,
orienteering,
food procurement, hot/cold stress
management,
toxic bites, edible plants of the world, and
survival at
sea. Optional three-day field trip exercise.
PFHW
191 - Wild Food Plants
This course
introduces 77 kinds of edible wild plants and
their toxic
look-a-likes from Michigan and adjoining states.
The students
learn to distinguish on the basis of observed
plant
characteristics. The material is illustrated in slides and
handouts.
Several outdoor experiences are provided.
Conservation
stressed.
*** Clicking on each course will take you directly to the online course listing and registration pages***
