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1. Express and demonstrate a theoretical and practical understanding of the diverse and rapidly changing health and life science environments in local and global contexts.
2. Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative skills necessary to assess, plan, direct, create, organize, and coordinate activities and research required in health or life science settings.
3. Utilize knowledge about regulations, legal, cultural, and ethical issues to make informed decisions and provide directives that promote maximum health initiatives for the individual, family, and society.
4. Embody and promote dignity and respect for the individual by demonstrating culturally competent care to individuals from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
5. Enhance the student's understanding of the political, social, legal and ethical issues that may be encountered and have an impact on areas of health care practice.
6. Refine his/her life experience, leadership, moral and ethical decision-making, innovation and entrepreneurship in health care knowledge through academic inquiry while using current, practical health and life science models.
7. Be educationally positioned to take a leadership role in a health or life science environment and to continue their studies toward a graduate degree, if he/she chooses.
8. Integrate a Reformed perspective through bringing redemption and reconciliation for all who need to experience healing and health, in their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual lives.
Concentration Course Requirements:
Course #
HLS Required Course Titles
Units
HLS 200
Fundamental Principles of Health & Wellness
3
HLS 300
Kinesiology
3
PHL 340
Christian Ethics
3
Required Lab Sciences for HLS Concentration
CHM 121
General Chemistry I + Lab
4
BIO 121
General Biology I + Lab
4
PHY 121
General Physics I + Lab
4
BIO 310
Anatomy + Lab
4
BIO 311
Physiology + Lab
4
HLS Elective Course Titles
BIO 301
Microbiology + Lab
4
PSY 340
Social Psychology
3
HLS 310
Exercise Physiology + Lab
4
HLS 410
Nutrition for Today
3
HLS 420
Biomechanics
3
HLS 430
Assessment & Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries
3
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