Course Catalog

PHP100E Fitness for Life (1 credit) 9750

COURSE DESCRIPTION
A course on the importance of wellness, including the spiritual basis, and how individuals can achieve a state of wellness in their lives. Content includes the health-related components of physical fitness, hypokinetic diseases, nutrition, AIDS and sexuality, substance abuse, cancer, and stress management. Students are expected to engage in a program of regular physical activity during this course, and a battery of tests is given to assess each student's level of physical fitness.

LEARNING RESULTS
In this course you will:
• explain your philosophy on the importance of and need for wellness.
• identify and define the major components of physical fitness and wellness.
• design and implement a personal wellness program for selected components.
• articulate how wellness can be developed or maintained in the areas of weight control, body composition, nutrition, sexuality, substance abuse, smoking, stress management, and cancer prevention.

REQUIRED TEXTS AND MATERIALS
Hoeger, Werner W.K. and Hoeger, Sharon A. Lifetime of Physical Fitness and Wellness. (10th ed.) 2009. Belmont,CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Instruments for fitness testing (fitness centers, hospitals, athletic training facilities, friends, etc. may be able to help with the necessary instruments for testing.)

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INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNING
God is interested and concerned about every part of our life. There are many direct references and inferences in the Bible that relate to our total wellness and physical being. How we live our life and care for our physical being is a spiritual act or worship. It is my desire that through this course you will come to a deeper and fuller understanding of that in your life and approach each day with a lifestyle that will honor and please God. We don't gain more of God's favor or love by doing that but we do become good stewards of the temple he has given us when we have a lifestyle that promotes total wellness. I urge you to be open to what God will be saying to you and how he will be challenging you, directing you and empowering you to do what you cannot do by your own strength over the next few weeks in areas related to your total wellness.

LEARNING DOCUMENTATION
To determine if the course learning results have been attained, students document their learning by submitting 11 assignments, 10 weekly exercise reports, and 3 evaluations.

LEARNING EVALUATION

Assignments: 245 points
Evaluatoins: 105 points
Weekly Exercise Reports: 150 points
Total 500 Points