GHTH100 - Course Objectives
Overview
GHTH 100, Personal Wellness is a course which students may select to fulfill their General Education Wellness requirement. This course examines all the dimensions of health and wellness. An emphasis is placed on the factors that influence health and wellness, particularly individual behaviors. Students participate in self-assessments that provide information about their health and wellness behaviors and their overall health status. In addition, students will learn strategies that improve lifetime health and wellness. The course includes a physical wellness assignment and completion of the Wellness Passport.
Objectives
- Understand the dimensions of wellness, the various factors affecting each dimension, and how dimensions are interrelated.
- Understand the relationship between personal behaviors and lifelong health and wellness.
- Assess own level of health and wellness and understand how these levels impact their quality of life.
- Identify and implement strategies to improve your wellness.
- Make plausible interpretations about behavior in social contexts.
- Identify implications of taking action regarding social/behavioral issues.
- Use evidence to develop and evaluate positions regarding social/behavioral sciences.
- Discriminate between ethical and non-ethical practices in social/behavioral sciences.
- Identify relevant contributions of sociocultural/psychological variables to theories about human behavior and social interaction.
