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Health and Wellness Minor ~ Distinguishing Features
The Health and Wellness minor provides learning experiences that enable students to accept a definition of "health" that goes beyond mere freedom from disease and encompasses the field of "wellness." Inherent in the minor is the recogniton that behavior and decisions (physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual) play a key role in one's ability to resist ill health and maintain or achieve optimum human potential.
Distinguishing features that may entice you:
- State of the art expanded views of wellness dimensions
- A focus on "What's Right With Your Life?" and the human potential
- Personal assessments and goal setting in many courses
- Skill development in facilitating behavior change and gaining support
- Current and relevant data/studies in all aspects of health and wellness
- Multicultural and genealogy considerations for health and healing practices
- Identifying patterns and skill development in marriage and family life
- Holistic and alternative approaches to human and planetary well-being
- Opportunity to integrate a self-selected topic into your major
- Reflections on well-being, health and spirituality
- Faculty who are both authors and leading educators in wellness education and human sexuality