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DAKOTA COLLEGE @ BOTTINEAU COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Prefix/Number/Title: HPER 217 Personal and Community Health
Course Description:
This course is designed to acquaint the student with those principles and practices which will ensure the maintenance of
conditions necessary for wholesome personal and community living. Economic, social, and legal aspects of health preservation
and disease prevention will be emphasized.
Course Objectives:
1. The student will understand that lifelong wellness is achieved and sustained through proper physical exercise and nutrition.
To promote lifelong learning skills for a healthier life.
2. Awareness that lifelong fitness includes developing muscular strength, endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular health.
3. Understanding the importance of team training in maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Instructor:
Dan Fagerlund
Office:
TH Weight Room
Office Hours:
Posted on office door.
Phone:
228-5636
Email:
d aniel.fagerlund@dakotacollege.eduLecture/Lab Schedule:
MWF 9:00-9:50
Textbook:
Health & Wellness, 9
th
or 10
th
Edition by Edlin and Golanty
Course Requirements:
This class will be a lecture format with out of class reports and assignments using various technologies including the internet
and outside readings. Class participation and attendance will be a must to be successful.
Grading will be based on the following items being completed and turned in.
1.
Article reviews & classroom presentations
2. Web assignments
3. Multi-chapter tests
4. Attendance (more than 3 unexcused absences will result in the loss of a letter grade)
5. Grade scale A:100-90 B:89-80 C:79-70 D:69-60 F:59-Below
Tentative Course Outline:
Week 1-3 Unit One Achieving Wellness
Chapter 1 Achieving Personal Health
Chapter 2 Mind-Body Communications
Chapter 3 Managing Stress
Chapter 4 Mental Health/Illness
Week 4-5 Unit Two Eating & Exercising Toward a Healthy Lifestyle
Chapter 5 Choosing a Nutritious Diet
Chapter 6 Managing a Healthy Weight
Chapter 7 Physical Activity for Health/Well-Being
Week 6-7 Unit Three Building Healthy Relationships
Chapter 8 Sexuality & Intimate Relationships
Chapter 9 Understanding Pregnancy & Parenthood
Chapter 10 Choosing a Fertility Control Method
Chapter 11 Protecting Against STD’s
Week 8-10 Unit Four Understanding and Preventing Disease
Chapter 12 Reducing Infections & Building Immunity
Chapter 13 Cancer: Risks & Prevention
Chapter 14 Cardiovascular Diseases
Chapter 15 Heredity & Disease