PHED 1512: Health Education

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Subject:
Physical Fitness/Education
Credit hours: 2 Lecture hours: 2 Lab hours: 0
PCS code (Local ID):
Baccalaureate/Transfer
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Course Description
A fundamentals course dealing with personal lifestyle choices and health. Information units may include: drugs, sexuality, mental health, physical health, nutrition, environmental issues, aging, consumer education, and death. AAS: Health education elective.
Topical Outline
  1. Introductory Concepts and Dimensions; Being a Responsible Health Consumer
  2. Accessing Your Health
  3. Making Smart Health Care Choices
  4. Promoting and Preserving Psychological Health
  5. Managing Stress
  6. Improving Your Sleep
  7. Connecting and Communicating in the Modern World (Healthy Relationships)
  8. Nutrition: Eating for a Healthier You
  9. Healthy Weight
  10. Personal Fitness
  11. Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
  12. Drinking Alcohol Responsibly
  13. Ending Tobacco Use
  14. Avoiding Drug Misuse and Abuse
  15. Disease Prevention and Coping

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Recognize the multidimensionality of one's health and wellness as depicted in the Wellness Model.
  • Understand the importance of the concepts of balance, moderation, and variety in one's lifestyle.
  • Utilize strategies to identify and modify behaviors that are creating an imbalance in one's health and wellness.
  • Understand health-related information which will enable one to identify potential problem areas that could interfere with one's health and wellness.
  • Describe the underlying reasons that foster the potential for one to develop a variety of acute and chronic conditions and diseases.
  • Understand the importance of developing positive health and wellness behaviors, for oneself and others, so that those behaviors will become an integral part of one's lifestyle throughout one's lifespan.
  • Access reliable and valid information that will support the active involvement in one's own health (physical and emotional), nutrition, fitness, wellness, and self-care. Become aware and comfortable with many reliable and valid health websites.
  • Gain an understanding of exercise and fitness programs, including cardiovascular and muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition; and realize the importance of individuality in fitness needs.
  • Act as a knowledgeable consumer through the utilization of one's increased informational foundation and understanding of health and wellness concepts which, in turn, will enhance one's decision-making skills regarding health and wellness-related issues.
General Education Distribution Area
Health Education