Health Education (HED)

This course introduces principles and practices of personal and family health; it includes human reproduction, growth and development, psychological dimensions of health, human sexuality, nutrition and fitness, aging, death and dying.

This course introduces the principles and practices of community health; it includes drug use and abuse, communicable diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, consumer, health, health organization, and environmental concerns.

This course provides instruction to the immediate, temporary care, which should be given to the victims of accidents and sudden illness. It also includes standard and advanced requirement of the American Red Cross and/or American Heart Association. CPR and AED training are also included.

In this course, instruction and review of updated information concerning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is presented. The student must satisfactorily execute skills needed to meet requirements for recertification in Basic Life Support (BLS) as required by the American Heart Association.