Health Education

This course provides an understanding of the responsibility we have for our individual health status and the impact of decision-making. Targeted content focuses on developmental and life issues of high school freshmen. The primary themes are personal decision-making, adaptation, and establishing a foundation for health literacy. Course projects serve to involve students in age- appropriate health issues and provide a means for discerning the current evidence-based life science findings. Becoming a healthy adult is directly related to specific health patterns established in early life adolescence. Therefore the goal of this course is to explore major personal topics and to apply them in order to achieve, maintain, and promote high-level health.