J. Kyle Davis, Health and Wellness Minor Coordinator
1005 Student Recreation Center
757 683-4754
jkdavis@odu.edu
The Health and Wellness interdisciplinary minor explores personal involvement in and commitment to health and wellness and the factors that influence the health status of individuals and society. This interdisciplinary minor fosters an appreciation for personal responsibility for health and strategies to enhance and preserve the individual's and the public's health. Societal health and the factors that impact on the health and wellness of a community and the individual's role in health policy are examined. Students gain an awareness of the cultural, psychological, sociological and ethical issues affecting and effected by the health and wellness of individuals and the society in which they live.
Requirements
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Credit Hours |
| 12 |
| Health Aspects of Aging | |
| Policy and Politics of Health | |
| Understanding Violence | |
| Deviant Behavior | |
| Gender-Based Violence | |
| Drugs and Society | |
| Lifetime Fitness and Wellness | |
| Nutrition for Fitness and Sport | |
| Exercise Testing for Normal and Special Populations | |
| Interprofessional Study Abroad on Global Health | |
| Human Growth & Motor Development | |
| Management Skills for Teaching Health and Physical Education | |
| Methods and Materials in Health Education | |
| Physiology of Exercise | |
| Nutrition and Fitness Education | |
| Introduction to Human Services | |
| Family Guidance | |
| Bioethics | |
| Health Psychology | |
| Drugs and Behavior | |
| Child Psychology | |
| The Psychology of Adulthood and Aging | |
| Psychology of Sex | |
| Psychopathology | |
| Theories of Personality | |
| Human Cognition | |
| Cross-Cultural Psychology | |
| Physiological Psychology | |
| Psychology of African Americans | |
| Health, Illness, and Society | |
| Fundamentals of Human Growth and Development: Birth through Adolescence | |
The interdisciplinary minor in Health and Wellness requires 12 credit hours of 300/400-level courses selected from at least two different disciplines with a maximum of six credits from any one discipline. For completion of the interdisciplinary minor, students must have a minimum overall cumulative grade point average of 2.00 in all courses specified as a requirement for the minor exclusive of lower-level courses and prerequisite courses. At least six hours of upper-level courses must be taken through courses offered by Old Dominion University. Three credit hours may be in the major, if a major course is listed as an option for the interdisciplinary minor. As such, it will be credited toward both the major and the interdisciplinary minor.
