Health Education

This course is designed to provide the students with fundamental knowledge required to understand, implement and promote the principles of physical, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual and occupational dimensions of health and wellness education in a variety of settings. From health education emerges healthy behaviour which is an important determinant of personal, community and global health. Health education as it relates to the development and implementation of planned learning experiences, the motivation to change attitude and influence behaviour in academic and informal group education settings will be discussed. PREREQ: PHED 2506/7 or PHED 2516/2517 (lec 3) cr 3.