All trips include transportation, some meals, instruction and guiding, camping fees or lodging and rental equipment from the Touch the Earth rental center. There are no books to purchase, and grading is determined by participation. The courses are taught by a combination of professional staff, graduate assistants, and outside experts. The course requires simple arithmetic operations. Grades are based on five exams, two computer-based diet assignments, and attendance.
Emphasis is on food and health habits that minimize nutrition-related problems.
Lectures, discussions, and application sessions in this course address the distribution and determinants of health and disease in populations, health behavior theories, and the use of health behavior theory in contemporary health promotion programming. Experience in planning and implementing programs on health-related topics, and nutrition, physical fitness, substance abuse, and sexuality are covered. Instruction is by Student Health personnel and faculty supervision. Not available for degree credit for thesis-track students. This course examines recreation's role in rehabilitation.