2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Health Promotion and Wellness
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Minjung Seo, Chair
105 Park Hall
315-312-6386
www.oswego.edu/hpw
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The B.S. in Wellness Management is offered on campus and online. All courses offered by the Health Promotion and Wellness Department may be used for general elective credit. The Bachelor of Science degree in wellness management is designed to prepare students to assume roles as wellness/health promotion professionals in private business and industries, community organizations, and healthcare organizations. The degree will provide students the opportunity to select a program that focuses on wellness, worksite health promotion, and managing such programs. In addition to a broad liberal arts education, students can graduate with a foundation in health science/wellness, management, and human behavior. Students can also graduate with skills in needs assessment, program planning, program implementation, and program evaluation. These skills will reflect the health needs of a worksite/business.
Wellness is a holistic approach of taking an individual or organization to a higher level of health. The health problems of today are, in large measure, the result of life-style decisions. Until recently, the American healthcare system has not addressed prevention. Wellness includes the physical, social, emotional, occupational, spiritual, environmental, financial, and intellectual dimensions of an individual or organization. Wellness is the ability to live life to its fullest and to maximize personal potential in a variety of dimensions. This can be accomplished through individual behavior change (i.e. stress reduction) or through an organizational change in policies, ergonomics, and facilities. Worksite wellness programs may address a variety of issues including: fitness, nutrition, stress management, safety, substance abuse, and family-work life issues.
A graduate of this program may obtain an entry-level position as a wellness/health promotion specialist/manager in a healthcare organization, corporate setting, or public agency. Students may also continue with graduate work in health promotion, business administration, allied health, public health, mental health, and exercise science.
The BS degree in wellness management is designed to encourage students to explore individual areas of interest through elective selection (i.e. management, human behavior, and aging). Students are required to complete at least one internship (2.5 GPA required) in a health wellness setting prior to graduation.
Major
Minor
Health Science
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HSC 101 - Introduction to Health Promotion and Wellness
An introduction to health promotion and wellness as a profession and career. Topics include competencies for health professionals (CHES), history of health promotion and wellness, health determinants, philosophical bases of health, theories of behavioral/organizational change, resources and professional organizations. Particular emphasis on the process and practice of health promotion in society, the organization, and the individual.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 120 - Human Body Systems
The interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to wellness, movement and exercise.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 162 - Thrive
This course will introduce students to evidence-based strategies to increase human flourishing. Specifically, students will develop skills to cultivate positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishments, and vitality (PERMA-V) to enhance well-being.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 1 -
HSC 198 - First Year Signature Course
Signature courses are small, seminar-style courses provide opportunities for students to discuss engaging issues while developing critical thinking, information literacy and both written and oral communication skills. Each class is focused on a unique subject but all classes are about intellectual curiosity, making campus connections and learning how to thrive in the SUNY Oswego community. Learning objectives include critical thinking, communication, intercultural knowledge, and campus engagement.
When Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
HSC 230 - Health and Technology
Students will use multidisciplinary learning and application methods to explore the development and use of technology to motivate, monitor, and measure healthy behaviors and life outcomes. This includes universal exploration of digital citizenship and disparities.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 232 - Introduction to Personal Training
This course is designed to give students the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to prepare for the American Council of Exercise (ACE) Personal Trainer Certification Exam (or other related certifications) and become effective personal trainers.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 234 - Personal Training Practicum
This course is designed to give students practical experience in the field of personal training. Students will work one-on-one with actual clients in the campus fitness centers under the supervision and guidance of the Fitness Centers Manager.
Prerequisite: HSC 232 and instructor approval.
When Offered: Fall
Credit: 2 -
HSC 241 - Critical Health Issues
The course confronts the vital health issues of our time—drug use and abuse, human sexuality, mental health, pollution problems, consumer health and common health problems of students.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3 -
HSC 250 - Concepts of Peer Health Education
This course provides an opportunity to explore the history of peer influence on health promotion planning and programming. It will examine the methods and means of applying peer to peer outreach on health related issues and trends from the elementary to post-secondary student populations. Particular emphasis will investigate various relationships between health behavior choices and practices which are shaped by values, norms and society.
When Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 295 - Life Skills for Success
This course is designed to assist the students at SUNY Oswego in exploring and developing life skills for success in and out of the classroom. By focusing on “real life” skills and personal development, this course assists students with meeting daily challenges and enhancing their growth in college and the years beyond.
Prerequisite: Participate in intercollegiate athletics or instructor permission
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 300 - Emergency Medical Technician-Basic
This course is a study of the methods and techniques involved in emergency assessment, care and transport of the sick and injured. Topics include assessment techniques and principles of treatment for medical and traumatic emergencies. In addition to lecture and lab sessions, internships in both clinical and field settings are required. Successful completion of this course results in certification as an Emergency Medical Technician by the New York State Department of Health.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Note: Lecture and lab.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 6 -
HSC 310 - Disease: Lifestyle and Environment
Principles of environmental health and safety, and disease prevention and control will be examined. Topics include epidemiology, occupational health and safety, and disease prevention. The role of society, the work-place, and the individual in relationship to disease prevention will be explored.
Prerequisite: BIO 101 OR 120 OR 203.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 315 - Nutrition Concepts
This course focuses on current nutritional concepts and controversies related to human health and nutritional requirements. The material provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain and adopt healthy nutritional behaviors, as well as the ability to determine their own dietary needs now and in the future.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 332 - Essentials of Exercise Physiology
Exercise physiology examines the physiological responses and adaptations of the human organism to physical activity.
Prerequisite: BIO 101 or BIO 203 or BIO 120
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 333 - Human Response to Stress
This course focuses on the variables and issues that affect how humans respond to stress on the personal, behavioral, social, and organizational levels; provides practical and theoretical aids for coping with and managing the stress response; and, provides students with the opportunity to assess their own responses to stress, and to apply management techniques to moderate these responses.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 334 - Applied Kinesiology
An introduction to biomechanical principles applied to human movement exercise sport, rehabilitation and physical activity.
Prerequisite: HSC 120 or BIO 305
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 340 - Global Health Promotion
The course provides interdisciplinary perspectives on key challenges to global health issues that impact health and well-being and the principles of global health to improve population health at all levels. Topics will include the principles of global health, major global health concerns and interventions, determinants and risk factors of health and illnesses, the theoretical concepts of global health promotion, and critical analysis of evidence-based global health promotion programs.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
HSC 343 - Drug Use and Abuse in Society
The course explores the social, psychological, pharmacological and legal aspects of the use by humans of chemical agents, i.e., drugs and narcotics, alcohol and tobacco, which affect their behavior. The role of education will be stressed.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 353 - Wellness and Aging
An overview of healthy aging and wellness promotion for the older adult. Topics include healthy aging, health perspectives and aging, eight dimensions of wellness, and age-associated diseases and prevention strategies.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
When Offered: Spring, Summer
Credit: 3 -
HSC 358 - Be Well Now and Beyond
Be Well NOW and BEYOND will help students develop behavior change techniques that address the eight dimensions of wellness. Specifically, students will focus on changing behaviors associated with emotional, social, intellectual, financial, spiritual, occupational, environmental, and physical wellbeing. The class will use positive psychology, weekly goal setting, journal writing, and other methods to enhance behaviors aimed at improving overall wellbeing, free from diseases.
When Offered: Summer
Credit: 3 -
HSC 361 - Financial Wellness
Analyze thoughts, behaviors, and knowledge that maximize personal financial wellness and its impact on health. Explore goal setting, planning budgets, savings and emergency cash; debt management, good credit; and growing and protecting savings for the future.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
HSC 363 - Emotional Wellness
This course will be an examination of emotional, spiritual, social and mental wellness. This course will emphasize primary and secondary prevention strategies. Topics include: Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Empowerment, Happiness, Anger and Anger Management, Relationships, Life Goals, and Self-Actualization.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 373 - Sexual Wellness
This course allows students to explore complex issues related to sexuality, the college culture, the ways we communicate about sex, and the impact they have on our health and wellness. The course will explore historical perspectives, societal and media messages related to a cultural understanding of gender and sexuality.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore class standing.
When Offered: Summer
Credit: 3 -
HSC 386 - Wellness for Contemporary Living
This course emphasizes wellness as a positive approach to health through improving oneself beyond the absence of disease. The course is designed to develop awareness, self responsibility, strategies and techniques of managing one’s own health. It will explore such topics as caring for the physical self, using the mind constructively, channeling stress energies positively, expressing emotions effectively, becoming creatively involved with others, and staying in touch with the environment.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 387 - Refugee Wellness
Explore how the multidimensional individual and group identities of refugees and the resettlement experience impact their wellness.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
HSC 395 - Wellness Coach Practicum
An upper-level, practical experience for students to implement knowledge, skills, and dispositions associated with health and wellness coaching. Students will assist a professor/clinician in helping a client reach their health goals in an authentic/professional setting.
Note: Course has variable credit, one to three, and may be repeated for a total of six credits.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1-3 -
HSC 396 - Teaching Assistant in Health Promotion and Wellness Department
Provides opportunities for students to enrich their educational experience while supporting faculty and providing greater individualized support of enrolled students. Teaching assistants develop an understanding of the learning process within a discipline and an ability to explain the importance and value of course content to a novice audience.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and a minimum grade point average of 2.5 and instructor approval.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HSC 397 - Exploratory Practicum in Wellness Management
This course provides students an experiential learning opportunity through fieldwork in real-life health promotion/wellness settings. Students observe and participate in day-to-day work assignments under the supervision of one or more practicing professionals.
Note: Students may receive one to three credit hours of academic credit. Forty hours of professional contact hours are required for each credit earned. Students must apply for admission to the course during the semester preceding their practicum.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HSC 399 - Independent Study
Individual study in the field of health science under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing and instructor permission.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1 to 3 -
HSC 425 - Sports Nutrition
Explore the role nutrients play in physical activity, exercise/recovery and human performance. Integrate nutrition and sports with the physiology of exercise and sport training. An emphasis on macronutrient, micronutrients and water as related to wellness, physical fitness and sports performance. Explore sport specific improvement trends and ergogenic aids.
Prerequisite: HSC 315
When Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 430 - Health Disparities
As a result of taking this course students will be able to correlate the associations of socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity and gender to health status. Moreover, the course will provide current data and discussions of the social justice and economic impacts of health disparities in the United States. Students will explore the profound effects of inequality on
child development, behavioral choices, and adult health status through lecture, discussion, reflection activities and a student selected semester project on a specific health disparity and target population.
Prerequisite: (HDV 301 and Department Permission) or HSC 101.
When Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
HSC 435 - The Science of Nutrition
The purpose of this course is to introduce upper-level students to the science of nutrition with an emphasis on incorporating optimal nutrition values into their day-to-day life. This upper-level nutrition course covers such topics as the basics of nutrition, nutrition and disease prevention, weight management, nutrition throughout the life cycle, and more.
Prerequisite: HSC 315
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 448 - Health Promotion Program Planning
This course will focus on the development of the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and implement Health Promotion/Wellness Programs in a variety of settings. Issues of interest to health professionals such as: health care cost containment, goal setting, assessing organizational needs, program evaluation, and marketing program interventions are addressed. Students will learn how to plan and implement different health promotion programs to effectively meet the health care needs of an organization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 460 - Exercise Prescription and Leadership
Exercise theory, programming, and prescription will be the focus of this course. Experiential learning activities will focus on the principles and practices of assessing, screening, and conducting health related adult physical fitness programs. Injury prevention, emergency procedures, and legal issues for the exercise leader will be addressed. Ideal for those considering national certification as personal trainers or aerobic instructors.
Prerequisite: HSC 332
When Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
HSC 470 - HP Program Implementation
The course will provide students with the necessary skills for the development and implementation of evidence-based health promotion programs for various priority populations. Special emphasis will be placed on health behavior change initiatives, using social media, technology, and effective marketing strategies.
Prerequisite: HSC 448.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3 -
HSC 488 - Evaluation and Research in Health Promotion
This course covers various evaluation and measurement concepts in wellness and fitness programs. Provides students the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion programs in the work place. Emphasis is on computerized health information retrieval systems, selection of evaluation instruments, reading, writing, and interpreting research literature. Basic statistics are studied and applied with attention given to the administration, scoring, statistical analysis, and interpretation of results.
Prerequisite: HSC 448.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3 -
HSC 498 - Internship in Wellness Management
An upper division course designed for students who wish to take part in a semester long internship designed to provide a pre-professional experiential learning opportunity related to the academic major or minor or an area of career interest. Students will work full-time or part-time in a position which will provide opportunities to apply classroom learning and to analyze and synthesize that knowledge in an approved internship setting.
Note: Variable credit one to three, may be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing, HSC 448 and a minimum GPA of 2.5.
Acceptance of experience through EXCEL: Experiential Courses and Engaged Learning, an approved position description filled out by Site Supervisor and permission of the student’s major academic advisor and sponsoring faculty member. Clear learning objectives and academic assignments appropriate for the position and credits being earned.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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HSC 499 - Independent Study
Individual study in the field of health science under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
When Offered: Spring
Credit: 1 to 3
Physical Education
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PED 215 - Principles, Philosophy, and Organization of Athletics in Education
An analysis of the concepts of athletic coaching including the coach as a professional teacher and educator and of the psychology of coaching most conducive to motivating maximum individual and team performance. Special attention is given to the conditions and techniques essential to successful coaching of competitive sports and to the common problems of coaching in the school and colleges of today.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
PED 225 - Underwater Diving (Scuba)
Basic and advanced principles and techniques of scuba diving. Designed for the individual with little or no diving experience. Lectures cover physics and physiology, equipment, marine environment, diving safety and first aid.
Note: Course fee required.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 2 -
PED 226 - Advanced Open Water Diving
This course introduces the certified diver to various aspects of diving which allows the student to expand their skills and experience. The course focuses on 5 areas including, Underwater Navigation, Deep Diving, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy and Wreck Diving.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 2 -
PED 290 - Intercollegiate Athletics
A study of the individual techniques, team strategies, and sports psychology related to varsity sports participation. Attention will be given to team and individual training techniques. Safety aspects of aerobic and weight machine conditioning will be stressed. Individual self-esteem and successful teamwork in a competitive sports structure will be emphasized.
Prerequisite: Inclusion on the appropriate athletic team in a specific sport.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 1 -
PED 295 - Life Skills
This course is based on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) CHAMPS/Life Skills Program and is designed to assist the student-athlete at Oswego in exploring and developing life skills for success in the classroom, in sports, and in life. Students will assess, analyze and develop skills to enhance personal development.
Prerequisite: Participate in intercollegiate athletics or instructor permission.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
PED 325 - Women in Sport
Historical reference and cultural implications concerning the woman athlete.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
PED 340 - Health Sciences Applied to Coaching
A study of the methods and techniques for prevention and first aid care of athletic injuries. Attention is given to appropriate athletic training procedures and equipment in a sports program.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
PED 350 - Theory and Techniques of Coaching
The course introduces basic concepts common to all sports. Topics will include a history of interscholastic athletics in New York State. The objectives, rules, regulations and policies of athletics, as well as performance skills, technical information, and organization and management of practices will also be among the topics covered. A 15-hour observation of approved coaching in the specific sport is required.
Prerequisite: PED 215
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
PED 399 - Independent Study
Individual study in the field of physical education under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1 to 3 -
PED 499 - Independent Study
Individual study in the field of physical education under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
When Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1 to 3
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