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Oct 23, 2026
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HPER 1110 - Personal and Community Health
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This course is designed to look at health from a personal and community perspective. It includes an overview of concepts and concerns involving the many dimensions of health and gives students knowledge and skills necessary to make informed health decisions.
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Understand health and wellness and their components.
- Comprehend the importance of emotional health and stress management.
- Analyze fitness components and their importance in wellness.
- Evaluate nutrition concepts for a healthy lifestyle.
- Analyze disease risk factors, disease prevention, and major causes of morbidity and mortality in the U.S.
- Understand relationships and sexuality.
- Comprehend reproduction and birth control methods.
- Synthesize how infectious diseases impact our lives.
- Comprehend drug use, abuse, and addiction on our society.
- Understand community health agencies and their practices.
- Analyze community health planning and promotion.
- Analyze health-related information as a means of making informed health choices.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Basic community health and epidemiology
- Community health agencies
- Community health planning
- Health and wellness
- Emotional health and stress management
- Relationships/sexuality
- Reproduction and birth control
- Diet and nutrition
- Exercise and fitness
- Major causes of death
- Drug abuse and addiction
- Infectious and noninfectious diseases
- Environmental health
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
Course Notes
This course is also offered through Anoka-Ramsey’s Concurrent Enrollment Program.
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