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CPH 178 Personal Health and Community Wellness
Credit Hours:  3
Effective Term: Fall 2017
SUN#: None
AGEC: None  
Credit Breakdown: 3 Lectures
Times for Credit: 1
Grading Option: A, B, C, D, F
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Description: Analyze basic personal and community health problems as well as long-term benefits and strategies for maintaining a high-level of wellness for living in today's world. Use current scientific information to promote individual and community health.

Prerequisites: RDG 094 and CPH department approval.

Corequisites: None

Recommendations: Good communication skills, interest in community activities and personal interest in a healthy living lifestyle.

Measurable Student Learning Outcomes
1. (Analysis Level) Analyze the concept of wellness and identify and explain the long-term benefits and strategies for maintaining a high-level of wellness for living in today's world.
2. (Comprehension Level) Understand and explain the various stages of health behavior change.
2. (Application Level) Apply principles of physical fitness, nutrition, weight control, stress management, alcohol/drug recovery, and disease prevention to positively modify one's own personal lifestyle.
3. (Synthesis Level) Develop individual positive health behaviors necessary for one to maintain a high-level of personal wellness.
4. (Analysis Level) Analyze the significance of self-responsibility in maximizing positive lifestyle habits and minimizing or eliminating negative lifestyle habits.
5. (Synthesis Level) Develop and model a sound educational foundation from which to make decisions consistent with one's beliefs and values.
6. (Synthesis Level) Develop a scientifically sound individualized program of exercise which will improve and/or maintain the health-related components of fitness: cardiovascular endurance, body composition, muscle strength/endurance, and flexibility.
7. (Synthesis Level) Communicate to the community the necessity of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
8. (Synthesis Level) Perform a community health needs assessment (community diagnosis).
9. (Analysis Level) Examine the basic hazards of alcohol/tobacco use, as well as the diseases associated with STDs.
10. (Evaluation Level) Critique social marketing effects on community health outreach programs.
Internal/External Standards Accreditation
This course is a prerequisite course to the Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Health at the University of Arizona.