300

This course explores the use of energy field practices for supporting health and well-being. Students will be introduced to and experience evidence-based mind body approaches to mitigate stress and trauma and enhance resilience via practices such as meditation, breath awareness, yoga, and reiki. Fee: $10.

In this evidence-based biology-focused course, students learn the impact of chronic and infectious disease on human health, populations, and systems. Students explore how lifestyle impacts physiology and the expression of disease, focusing on interventions and holistic approaches for diverse populations.

This course explores the relationship people have with the environment and how this interaction affects health and well-being for individuals, communities, and populations. Emphasizes policy, practice, and systems-based approaches.

This course introduces students to the basic principles and methods of public health epidemiology. This includes descriptive and analytic approaches to assessing the distributions of health, disease, and injury in populations and various factors that influence those distributions.

This course provides the theoretical foundation for working with individual clients/learners in coaching practice. Integrating change and wellness theories, students will explore coaching methods for supporting the individual. Students will gain a full understanding of the psychodynamics of the therapeutic relationship as they practice simulated coaching sessions. Fee: $125.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of how health systems and policies influence the health of individuals and communities in the United States. Case studies are used to explore the impact of health policy at the federal, state, and local levels on individuals and communities.

Examines theoretical foundations of health education and health promotion in public health through the study of health behavior theory, learning theory, and principles of adult learning. Students explore ways to understand health behavior from a holistic, individualized perspective. Advocacy and health policy are examined from a systems level, discussing the power of health promotion efforts as a means to support increasing health equity.

This course explores the process of evidence informed public health practice. It is designed to provide students with the fundamental research and analytic methods needed by public health leaders to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of community health in order to improve population health. The focus is on research skills needed by practitioners with the objective of improving health outcomes.

Established in biological science, students explore evidence for plant-based foods, herbs, and supplements to understand how they support health. Following the idea of food as medicine, students will begin with plant foods, including herbs and spices, discovering how they impact cell health. Students will explore herbal remedies, including essential oils, that support balance well-being in body, mind, and spirit. Fee $25.

Intermediary nutrition course detailing nutrients and how the body utilizes them in physiology; dietary planning principles that support good health with emphasis on cultural and lifestyle diversity; the special nutrient needs of people throughout the life cycle and with specific disease states; and practical applications to use nutrition as part of a wellness plan in health coaching, practitioner education, and patient care. Fee: $10.

This course focuses on the history and theories of integrative community health practice, roles and responsibilities of the community health practitioner, basic capacities central to community health education and promotion, and community assessment, analysis, and application.

This course focuses on effectively using community assessment and analysis data to design appropriate interventions and evaluations in partnership with the community. Specific attention will be given to care coordination, health teaching, and policy development as intervention. Roles and responsibilities of the community health practitioner, basic capacities central to community health promotion, and sustainability will be emphasized.

This course explores the skills required for achieving and sustaining well-being in an uncertain world. The course draws upon insights from the arts, humanities, psychology, and health sciences to define the challenges and opportunities presented by uncertainty. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to craft their own practice of leveraging uncertainty to gain vitality, clarity, and direction.