Health & Wellness (HWE)

Focuses on preparing students to lead a variety of group exercise classes with an entry-level skill set encompassing a variety of choreographed or non-choreographed activities. Classes may include aerobics (step and floor), mind body (yoga/pilates), or specialty (kickboxing, stability ball, senior classes, and boot camp).

Introduces basic principles of nutrition with emphasis on personal nutrition. This course focuses on macro and micro nutrients and their effects on the functions of the human body. Special emphasis is placed on the application of wellness, disease, and lifespan as it pertains to nutrition.

Examines the nutritional needs of humans as they move through the life cycle stages from pre-conception through older adult years.

Provides information on fitness and wellness and serves as a guide to design, implement, and evaluate a complete personal fitness and wellness program.

Explores the six components of wellness: physical, social, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and occupational. Topics include health risks, wellness behaviors, and personal behavior change in the areas of nutrition; exercise; substance abuse; stress management; cardiovascular and cancer risk factors; the aging process; and violence, death, and dying in our society. Provides tools to complete self-assessments and develop a wellness program for a healthier lifestyle across a lifespan.

Offers guided instruction in weight management. Emphasis is placed on the development of weight management programs and the role of exercise in maintaining weight loss.

Introduces the discipline of kinesiology, including the effects of physical activity and exercise on the human physiology and human experience. The course also explores career options including expectations of professionals in the field.

Provides knowledge and skills to prepare for a nationally recognized personal training certification. The course includes the development and implementation of exercise programs for healthy populations, and for individuals with medical clearance to exercise.

To be determined by the individual instructor. A Course Description will be developed for each course and documented within the course syllabus. Refer to the SFCC Style Guide for Course Description, Required Course Learning Outcome, and Topical Outline guidelines.

Focuses on the concepts of improved performance in all fitness areas. Emphasis is placed on how carbohydrates, fat, and protein impact performance, and the relationship between metabolism and weight for all populations. Addresses unhealthy diets, eating patterns, and behavior modifications to change negative food relationships within a variety of populations.

Introduces the physiological effects and responses by the body to the stressor of exercise. This course focuses on fundamental concepts of exercise physiology including metabolic, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems, and the significance of these effects on health and performance.

Focuses on behavioral change strategies and goal-setting for adopting a healthier lifestyle with emphasis on exercise, physical activity, stress management, and nutrition. Methods of coaching topics include how to overcome obstacles that impede success. This course is geared towards the health and fitness professional.