This course is designed to give students a basic knowledge of fitness, nutritional health and general wellness principles. Topics to be discussed and examined will include but are not limited to nutrition, stress management, behavior modification, disease prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, food and the consumer, cardiovascular and cancer- risk reduction, exercise and aging and lifetime physical fitness and wellness. To aid in the discussion of physical fitness, students will also participate in a variety of daily lifetime physical activities such as aerobic, Zumba and pilates activity, core activities, relaxation, yoga, and body weight training.
Offered Fall and Spring Terms.
Notes
GEP credit.