EXSC 4400 - Health Promotion Program Planning

(4) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: EXSC 3350
This course serves as a capstone class providing students with the opportunity to demonstrate accumulated knowledge from core Exercise Science/Wellness courses in the practical application of Wellness Promotion. Students will learn appropriate skills necessary for planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion program for a specific priority population. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1) Identify the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental factors that impact the health behaviors of priority populations, 2) Apply an appropriate planning model in the development of health promotion programs, 3) Develop a health promotion program based on a needs assessment including rationale, goals, objectives, interventions, and appropriate evaluation methods, 4) Identify principles of cultural competency in the implementation of health promotion programs, 5) Create specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) communication objectives, 6) Apply professional codes of ethics and ethical principles throughout the needs assessment, research, planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of program development.