ITP 4800 - Lifestyle Medicine Across Gender and Lifespan

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ITP 3850

Description: This class will focus on how lifestyle choices impact health across the lifespan from childhood/adolescence through early adulthood and into late adulthood. It will also focus on how lifestyle medicine impacts women’s health, men’s health, and LGBTQ health. Students will understand how areas of lifestyle medicine topics such as healthy eating, physical activity, stress reduction, healthy sleep habits impact the health of these various groups in different ways. They will also learn about lifestyle medicine topics that are of particular importance to certain populations of people.