Health, Wellness, and Physical Education Minor
Description. The minor in Health, Wellness, and Physical Education provides coursework that students may use to improve their personal health and physical fitness in conjunction with career preparation. It is designed to promote healthy lifestyle habits through the study and application of the wellness principles of nutrition, physical fitness, and stress management, as well as the acquisition of physical activity skills.
Rationale. This program combined with other general education areas of study fosters an understanding of the need to maintain healthy lifestyles. By combining interdisciplinary studies with health and physical education principles, this minor prepares students for healthy lifestyles within their career choices.
Learning Outcomes. Students will:
- Understand and discuss the importance of a healthy lifestyle in preventing premature disease and in promoting wellness.
- Understand and discuss the roles of exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle modification as effective strategies for weight control.
- Understand and discuss risk factors for obesity, health problems related to obesity, methods for assessing body composition, strategies for risk reduction, and the impact of advertising on the obesity epidemic.
- Understand and discuss the need for the improvement and maintenance of healthy lifestyle practices and their application to career choices.
- Understand and discuss the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol in the United States, financial consequences, and its impact on college campuses and the workplace.
- Understand and discuss how physical fitness assists in meeting the ordinary and the extraordinary demands of daily life effectively without being exhausted and with energy to spare for recreational activities and emergencies.
- Understand and discuss the potential impact of stress and coping techniques for health, relationships, and success in college and beyond.
- Understand and discuss job opportunities in commercial fitness facilities, hospitals, sports medicine clinics, sports complexes, public health facilities, and police and fire department fitness programs.
Credits. 18
Minor coordinator. Professors Sadie Huang (shuang@jjay.cuny.edu) and Cary Sanchez, Department of Counseling and Human Services (212.237.8147, csanchez@jjay.cuny.edu)
Requirements. A maximum of two courses can overlap with a student’s major, other minors or programs.
Additional information. Students who enrolled for the first time at the College or who selected this minor in September 2022 or thereafter must complete the minor in the form presented here. Students who enrolled in the minor prior to that date, may choose the form shown here or the earlier version that can be accessed in the UG Bulletin 2021-22.
Part One. Required Courses
Required
Select one
| PED 300 | Community Programs for Health, Wellness and Physical Activity | 3 |
| OR | |
| ANT 319 | Anthropology of Global Health | 3 |
| OR | |
| SOC 346 | Sport in Global Perspective | 3 |
| OR | |
| SOC 364 | Food Justice | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 9
Part Two. Activity Courses
Students must complete three credits of activity courses listed below. Students may choose to take PED 103 or three one-credit activity courses..
| PED 103 | Personal Physical Fitness and Dynamic Health | 3 |
OR Select three of the following
Note: Students can only apply 1 aquatics course and 1 defensive tactics course to Part Two.
Credits earned by participating in intercollegiate athletics may apply to Part Two (i.e. PED 120 - PED 130).
Total Credit Hours: 3
Part Three. Electives
Select two
| ANT 110/SOC 110 | Drug Use & Abuse | 3 |
| ANT 224/PSY 224/SOC 224 | Death, Dying and Society: A Life Crises Management Issue | 3 |
| ANT 264 | Anthropology and Alcohol Use | 3 |
| CSL 130 | Effective Parenting | 3 |
| CSL 227 | Families: Stress, Resiliency and Support Systems | 3 |
| ISP 125 | You Are What You Eat: Food & Culture in the U.S. | 3 |
| SCI 112 | Environmental Science: A Focus on Sustainability | 3 |
| SOC 227 | Sociology of Mental Illness | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 6
Total Credit Hours: 18