COURSE SYLLABUS
1. TITLE OF COURSE: Lifestyle Wellness
PREFIX/NUMBER: MST 105
CREDIT HOURS: 2
2. INSTRUCTOR: Lynne Ross
PHONE: 549-3075
EMAIL: Lynne.Ross@Pueblocc.edu
CLASS DAYS/TIME: W 4:00 – 5:50 p.m.
BUILDING/ROOM: MT 109
3. RESOURCES: TEXTS:
(1) Concepts of Fitness and Wellness
A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach, 7th Edition
Corbin, Welk, Corbin & Welk, McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-297265-3
(2) Save Your Hands
Injury Prevention for Massage Therapists
Lauriann Greene, Gilded Age Press
ISBN: 0-9679549-0-8
SUPPLIES: Notebook, folder or binder, writing tool, comfortable clothes.
4. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Provides opportunity to learn and apply specific wellness principles to your individual lifestyle. Student completes self-analysis of health behaviors and how lifestyle affects health status.
5. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
I. Demonstrate understanding of the principles of health and wellness.
II. Demonstrate awareness of health/wellness principles and how they affect mind, emotions, spirit.
III. Develop and implement a personal plan for promotion of lifestyle changes toward improved health and wellness.
IV. Design and implement a personal record keeping system to track and evaluate personal growth toward health/wellness issues.
6. EVALUATION PROCEDURES:
Final grade for this course will be determined by a combination of exams, quizzes, projects and homework assignments.
GRADING SCALE:
All Health Professions certificate and degree programs use the following grading scale:
93 - 100% = A
85 - 92% = B
77 - 84% = C
69 - 76% = D
0 - 68% = F
Special Remarks:
- Attendance: College policy states that students may be dropped from enrollment when absent 20% of the scheduled class meetings. Reinstatement procedures are described in the PCC catalog.
- Students should refer to the Massage Therapy Student Handbook for details regarding attendance, tardy and make-up policies for MST curriculum courses.
7. COURSE OUTLINE:
The following content areas will be covered in this course:
· Personality Styles
· Lifestyles for Health, Wellness & Fitness
· An Introduction to Physical Activity
· Physical Activity Pyramid (Health & Skill-Related Fitness
· Stress Management
· Making a Healthy Career in Massage Therapy
· Why Massage Therapists Get Injured
· Understanding the Injury Process
· Common Injuries to Massage Professionals
· Exercises and Stretches for Massage Therapists
· (re-)Designing Your Life and Work to Prevent Injury
Note: Content areas covered and class schedule is subject to change at the instructor's discretion.
8. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:
To be successful in this course, students are expected to participate in
· Class activities (which may include exercise &/or off-campus excursions)
· Class discussions
· In-class reading and writing assignments
· Fitness, wellness and self-care activities
· Complete homework and self-assessment worksheets
Students are required to bring all learning materials, supplies and appropriate clothing to every class meeting.
9. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
The very nature of higher education requires that students adhere to accepted standards of academic integrity. Therefore, Pueblo Community College has adopted a policy of academic conduct as described in the Student Handbook. Violation of academic integrity may be defined to include the following: cheating, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and personal misrepresentation. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the behaviors that constitute academic dishonesty. Sanctions for violating the standards of academic integrity may include warning, probation, suspension, and/or failure of the course or assignment at the discretion of the instructor.
110. ADA NOTICE:
Students who have a documented disability may be eligible to receive accommodations for this class. Please contact the PCC Adaptive Services Advisor at (719) 549-3331 for further information.