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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HSC 2500 - Health Behavior and Promotion

Credits: 4
Formerly: HSC3310
This course focuses on health behavior theories and strategies to promote individuals’ healthy lifestyle. In addition, students will explore and apply theoretically based principles and strategies to real-life cases. Emphasis is placed on improving students’ competency in understanding of health behaviors in the modern world and design of theory-based interventions to improve health behaviors. 3 credit hours are devoted to didactic lecture; 1 credit hour is devoted to activity-based experiential learning.