This course provides the framework for skill development in organizaion, planning, and implementing comprehensive health promotion programs. Key topics include: planning models, needs assessment, intervention theories/models, budgeting, marketing, and implementation practices. This course meets some requirements for taking the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) exam.

This course is designed to give students practical hands-on experience of health promotion skills that a health promotion educator will use.

This course provides a basic and theoretical understanding of the social, emotional/mental, physical, and lifestyle factors related to human behavior. Practical strategies are used to identify barriers to behavior and to enhance and improve health. This course will prepare students to take the CHES exam.

An introduction to the basic tasks of emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation, including planning, response, and recovery issues related to public safety. Identifies emergency management relevance in private industry, federal, state, and local governments. Introduces the fundamentals of disaster psychology, crisis communication, disaster response and recovery, principles of humanitarian relief and homeland security. Provides broad awareness about opportunities in both the public and private sectors of emergency management.

This course is designed to give students an exposure to different areas of communication and instructs them on how to most effectively distribute health information. Programs will be administered according to what an individual will most likely encounter while working in the field of Health Promotion or Worksite Wellness. There will be specific assignments that will be completed in the course of the semester. This course will cover other areas as time permits.