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Knowledge and methods to deal with the problems of use of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco in elementary and secondary schools. Meets requirement for Education Law, Section 804, 804a, and 805. Limited to Education majors only.

Identifies the mechanisms that generate the human stress response and their physical and psychological effects on the body and mind. The course also introduces the student to developing personal strategies for effective stress management.

This course will explore the development of knowledge and skills necessary to become personally responsible for fitness and wellness. Investigations will include fitness assessment, exercise prescription, preventative health care, eating disorders, weight management, nutrition, smoking cessation and stress management.

The course provides students with a basic understanding of the effects of legal and illegal drugs on physiological and psychological functioning, and how drugs influence personal and social behavior.

The course emphasizes wellness as a positive approach to health promotion. The course explores ways of establishing effective health strategies that affect the physical, emotional and social self, use the mind constructively, channel stress energies positively, express emotions effectively, and enable the individual to interact with others.