2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

KNS 180 Personal Health and Wellness

This course prepares students to examine their personal level of wellness; including physical fitness, making good nutrition choices, dealing effectively with stress, determining personal risk of disease, and identifying skills for developing and maintaining social relationships.

Credits

1

Corequisite

You will need to take a Kinesiology 1-credit activity course and KNS 180 Personal Health and Wellness during the same 8-week period.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Physical, social, emotional and intellectual factors that influence health.
  2. The short-term and long-term consequences of positive and negative health choices
  3. Applying decision-making and goal-setting processes to personal health choices
  4. Prevent or reduce the risk of tobacco use or alcohol and other drug abuse
  5. The importance of individual responsibility for health