Earning Criteria

• HW280: Mapping the Mind-Body Divide. Psychology, physical fitness, and complementary and alternative medicine each have their own unique perspective on what constitutes health and wellness. This course explores each of these disciplines and maps their interrelationships as they weave together the more holistic view of human health and potential that is prevalent today.
• HW310: Complementary and Integrative Medicine. This course explores complementary and integrative medicine (CIM), the variety of professions that comprise it, and their major concepts, methodological approaches, and theoretical foundations. It covers the multifaceted meaning of the term "holistic" and investigate how each CIM profession uniquely describes itself in light of this. Current research will be explored, including the impact of the National Institute of Health's CIM division.
• HW315: Models for Health and Wellness. This course introduces health, healing, and wellness from a broad historical and multicultural perspective, and how changing ideas about religion, philosophy, science, and psychology influence our understanding of health and how the practice of medicine is affected by global, social, and economic pressures. Students develop an original model of health and wellness based on an understanding of and sensitivity to current issues.
• HW410: Stress - Critical Issues in Management and Prevention. This course offers students a detailed look at the extensive research and practical approaches for identification, management, and prevention of stress. The health consequences of stress are discussed as are the sociological and economic effects of untreated stress on society as a whole. Current approaches to stress reduction and prevention will be illustrated including mind/body therapies that have shown remarkable rates of success.
• HW420: Creating Wellness - Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Healing. This course explores the burgeoning fields of meditation, "mindfulness," and transpersonal psychology in theory and practice. Students assess the role of personal mindset toward self and others as a foundation for wellness and appraise the impact of positive/negative relationships in maintaining good health.