ESS 2200 EXERCISE AND INTERVENTION
This course examines the science behind exercise as 'medicine' and offers students an opportunity to apply acquired knowledge and skills through participation in at least 20 hours of service learning with clients from community partners. Service learning is an experiential educational approach that involves an established community partnership, where students guided by the expertise of a professor and a community based practitioner, address a community need. In this course, those needs will involve physical activity or health in some way. Through both the academic and service learning components of this course, students will understand the role of various forms of physical activity to prevent and treat clinical conditions, including muscular skeletal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, mental health, and neurological issues associated with aging. Students will continue to develop skills in analyzing and interpreting clients' health status before, during, and after exercise. They will design and critique either exercise interventions or other health education programming, applying relevant guidelines and theories, with a focus on cultural sensitivity and equity issues. Students will cultivate cultural competence and professional communication skills through direct interactions with clients and supervising community partners.
Course Types
Service Learning, Experiential Learning
- Students will understand and be able to apply the guidelines recommended for exercise intervention with unique populations to impact health outcomes.
- Students will demonstrate developing skills in exercise training (appropriate documentation, protection of personal health information, evaluation, and discharge planning).
- Students will apply skills in analyzing and interpreting measures of client status prior to, during, and following exercise training using appropriate norms and relevant knowledge.
- Students will use a team approach to review/critique interventions for effectiveness with a focus on progression and will understand the importance of reciprocity when working with community partners (SL).
- Students will cultivate cultural competence and professional communication skills, including motivating effective client participation (SL).
- Students will recognize connections between course content, social issues in the community, service, and impacts on health outcomes (SL).
- Students will understand personal strengths and weaknesses in providing client centered services with community partners (SL).