2000-2001 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
The College of Health and Human Services
Required Program-Liberal Studies
The Department of Health and Physical Education through its Health and Wellness course in the Liberal Studies program seeks to enhance the overall well-being of students through instruction planned to promote and maintain desirable levels of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. Self-responsibility in the following dimensions of wellness is emphasized: nutritional awareness, stress awareness and management, exercise and fitness, substance use and abuse, and sexually transmitted diseases/AIDS. The importance of reducing risk factors for chronic degenerative disease and managing lifestyle factors for promotion of health is presented with implication for both the present and future. Information is provided during class lectures and enhanced by a variety of practical learning experiences which give students opportunities for self-assessment and personal application of the subject matter.
In addition, the department offers a variety of 1-semester-hour activity courses focusing on physical fitness and the development of skills essential for recreation and lifetime sports. Instruction is offered in many activities including golf, resistive exercise, scuba, swimming, and tennis.
The university's Liberal Studies requirements, in effect since fall, 1989, require that each student successfully complete HPED 143 or its alternate, FDNT 143. Students may also elect to take 4 semester hours of the ROTC program (MLSC 101-MLSC 102) as an alternate to the wellness courses. Activity courses will continue to be offered, although they are no longer required. It is encouraged and recommended that students choose these courses as elective credits.
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