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Health

Course Code
HLTH 110  Credits
Title Personal Health and Wellness 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This class assists students in examining their personal level of wellness, which includes physical fitness, making good nutrition choices, maintaining a healthy body composition, dealing effectively with stress, determining personal risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer, making wise choices in drug use and avoiding abuse, protecting one's self against sexually transmitted diseases and identifying skills for developing and maintaining successful interpersonal relationships. 



Course Code
HLTH 122  Credits
Title Alcohol and College Life 
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Description This hybrid course provides first year students with unbiased factual information about how alcohol and drug use affects college life. See http://www.mnstate.edu/aod/acl.cfm for more information. 



Course Code
HLTH 125  Credits
Title First Aid and CPR 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description To provide the citizen responder with the knowledge and skills necessary in an emergency situation to help sustain life and minimize pain and the consequences of injury or sudden illness until medical help arrives. Successful completion leads to American Red Cross certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for adult, child and infant, and First Aid Responding to Emergencies. 



Course Code
HLTH 190  Credits 1-4 
Title Topics in Health 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This is a topics course which may be repeated as course content may vary. 



Course Code
HLTH 290  Credits 1-4 
Title Topics in Health 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This is a topics course which may be repeated as course content may vary. 



Course Code
HLTH 305  Credits
Title Introduction to Nutrition 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description An introductory course in nutrition focusing on improving personal food choices, discriminating between sources of nutritional information, proper diet planning and maintaining healthy weight. 



Course Code
HLTH 311  Credits
Title Health in the Elementary Schools 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course emphasizes maintaining and improving personal health and wellness and developing and using motor skills for an active classroom. It also is a preparation for pre-service teachers to take part in developing health behaviors in their pre-primary through 8th grade level students. This course includes methods of instruction. 



Course Code
HLTH 327  Credits
Title Safety Education and Consumer Protection 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Study and evaluation of factors in safety awareness, accident prevention and consumer protection. 



Course Code
HLTH 330  Credits
Title Disease Prevention 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Introduction to common diseases with an emphasis on primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in health education and health promotion. 



Course Code
HLTH 335  Credits
Title Health Education and the Middle Level Adolescent 
Prerequisite HLTH 110 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description The middle level adolescent (children between the ages of 10 and 14) experiences dramatic changes in nearly every aspect of their physical, social, emotional, and intellectual lives. Health Education and the Middle Level Adolescent addresses these special considerations, as well as the special role of health education within the goals and philosophy of the middle level approach. 



Course Code
HLTH 340  Credits
Title Health Methods and Materials 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Writing Intensive Yes  
Description Students learn to design, implement and evaluate health lessons related to the National Health Education Standards and the Centers for Disease Control priority areas. Emphasis is placed on developing lesson plans that incorporate measurable objectives and a variety of teaching methods for students in grades 9-12. 



Course Code
HLTH 390  Credits 1-4 
Title Topics in Health 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This is a topics course which may be repeated as course content may vary. 



Course Code
HLTH 412  Credits
Title Education for Sexuality and HIV/AIDS 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This course trains health education majors and minors to carry out sexuality education for students in grades 7-12. Emphasis is placed on developing self-esteem, healthy relationships, and social skills. Current educational research is applied to promote sexual health in children, adolescents, and adults. 



Course Code
HLTH 465  Credits
Title Coordinated School Health Programs 
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Description A step-by-step approach to developing, implementing, and evaluating coordinated school health programs that include school health instruction, school environment, guidance and counseling, health services, food and nutrition programs, physical education, school site health promotion and the development of school and community partnerships. 



Course Code
HLTH 469  Credits 1-12 
Title Internship 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Designed for Community Health and Health Service Administration majors. Involvement in field work by placement in health related governmental, volunteer, non-profit, or commercial agencies. A maximum of 12 internship credits may be applied to the degree. 



Course Code
HLTH 490  Credits 1-4 
Title Topics in Health 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description This is a topics course which may be repeated as course content may vary.