HPER 1570 Wellness Perspectives

3 (3 lecture hours) Credit Hour(s)

This course promotes individual responsibility for optimal well-being, encompassing local and national health concerns, personal health risk factors, lifestyle behaviors, and preventive health measures.

General Education Learning Outcomes (TBR Approved)

Recognize, describe, and explain social institutions, structures, and processes occurring within a complex global and diverse society.
Think critically about how individuals are influenced by social institutions in their own and other diverse cultures.
Gather, analyze, and present research data perceptively and objectively using appropriate principles, methods, and technologies for the purpose of drawing logical conclusions on human behavior.
Analyze and communicate the values and processes that are used to formulate theories regarding the social context of individual human behavior in the social and behavioral sciences.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Recognize, describe, and explain social institutions, structures, and processes, and the complexities of a global culture and diverse society.
Analyze and understand how individuals are influenced by political, geographic, economic, cultural, or family institutions on wellness, and contrast the resulting belief system to that of another culture.
Explore the relationship between the individual and society as it affects the personal behavior, social development, and quality of life of the individual, the family, and the community.
Examine and understand the impact of behavioral and social scientific research on major contemporary issues and their disciplines/effects on individuals.
Evaluate, analyze, understand, and apply the most appropriate principles, methods, using technologies, gathering research data perceptively and objectively to draw conclusions and apply those conclusions to one’s life and society.