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HEED 213 Stress Management

This course is designed to provide students with the principles and methods necessary to develop a personal stress management plan as well as experience various means of stress reduction and relaxation. The concept of wellness, and the role stress and stress management play in personal wellness development, are examined.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

  1. Define stress theory concepts.
  2. Identify, evaluate, and demonstrate techniques and strategies for managing stress.
  3. Develop a stress management plan designed to improve personal health and wellness.
  4. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration through researching the impact stress has on human health and evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of those sources.
  5. Describe the relationship stress management plays in the wellness concept.
  6. Describe the relationship between exercise, nutrition, and stress.
  7. Demonstrate the ethical and discipline-specific use of information while researching stress and stress management.
  8. Select an appropriate technology tool to present and collaborate on stress and stress management while demonstrating the effective use of that tool.

Course Objectives

  1. Define stress theory concepts.

    This objective is a course Goal Only

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • exam; paper; and or activity

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • exam; paper; and or activity

    Critical Thinking

    • CT1
  2. Identify, evaluate, and demonstrate techniques and strategies for managing stress.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Writing Assignments

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

    Critical Thinking

    • CT3
  3. Develop a stress management plan designed to improve personal health and wellness.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Personal stress management plan

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

    Critical Thinking

    • CT4
  4. Apply strategies of inquiry and exploration through researching the impact stress has on human health and evaluate the authority, credibility, and purpose of those sources.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Writing Assignments

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Information Literacy Rubric

    Information Literacy

    • IL1
    • IL2
  5. Describe the relationship stress management plays in the wellness concept.

    This objective is a course Goal Only

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • exam; paper; and or activity

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • exam; paper; and or activity
  6. Describe the relationship between exercise, nutrition, and stress.

    This objective is a course Goal Only

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • exam; paper; and or activity

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • exam; paper; and or activity
  7. Demonstrate the ethical and discipline-specific use of information while researching stress and stress management.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Writing Assignments

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Information Literacy Rubric

    Information Literacy

    • IL3
  8. Select an appropriate technology tool to present and collaborate on stress and stress management while demonstrating the effective use of that tool.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • student online presentation and discussion

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Technological Literacy Rubric

    Technological Literacy

    • TL1
    • TL2
    • TL3