ITP 4700 - Community Health Education & Lifestyle Medicine

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ITP 3850

Description: This class will help students gain a more in-depth understanding of lifestyle medicine in areas such as healthy eating, physical activity, stress reduction, and healthy sleep habits. They will work with various community groups to identify wellness educational needs, and then develop lifestyle medicine educational programs to assist community members with improving their wellbeing. Students will learn about health promotion concepts, create dynamic educational presentations/materials, and serve a community through sharing what they have created. Through service learning, students will assist various communities with disease prevention and enhance overall health and wellbeing through lifestyle medicine (Service Learning).

Note: (Course created July 13, 2017)