Program outcomes:
- Describe the implications of positive and negative health practices impacting physical, social, occupational, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and environmental health within a cultural context
- Identify major health risks and diseases affecting contemporary society and describe the principal ways to promote health and wellness through lifestyle and behavioral change throughout the lifespan and within a cultural context
- Administer health and wellness appraisals and comprehensive fitness assessments of apparently healthy populations and those with controlled diseases
- Assess personal health, wellness, and fitness needs and goals of various populations
- Design and administer appropriate fitness programs that include health-related and/or skill-related components based on client's needs and goals, using sound physiological and biomechanical principles, for apparently healthy populations and those with controlled diseases
- Identify, analyze, and design appropriate comprehensive health and wellness programs, including nutrition counseling and stress management, using evidence-based practices and theory