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College of Graduate and Professional StudiesMaster of arts in holistic healtheducationholistic health education Program MissionStatemente mission of the Holistic Health Education Program is to developa cadre of health educators who promote and embody a holisticvision of health both professionally and personally, acting from thehighest values including:• Profession ethics;• Respect for diversity and commitment to access to healtheducation for all;• Interest in integrative approaches incorporating conventionaland complementary and alternative (CAM) models;• Desire to serve and to act as an agent of change; and• Active and responsible participation in our communities, localto global.Program Learning Outcomes1. Demonstrate a holistic approach to health education, addressingbody, mind, spirit, and community.2. Explain the basic philosophies of health and healing and thebasics of diagnosis and treatment (to the level appropriate forhealth educators) in a variety of modalities of health care, bothconventional and alternative, East and West, demonstrating anintegrative approach.3. Demonstrate an understanding of and proficiency in performingbasic competencies associated with the professional role ofhealth educator. Graduates will be able to:○ Assess needs, assets and capacity for health education.○ Plan health education.○ Implement health education.○ Conduct evaluation and research related to health education.○ Serve as a health education resource person.○ Communicate and advocate for health and health education.4. Demonstrate knowledge of multiple approaches andframeworks for delivering health education content andservices, including:○ Prevention and wellness.○ Self-care (as a topic, not a personal practice).○ Change and adult education.○ Stress management.○ Nutrition.○ Coaching;○ Community-based research and delivery.admission requirementsIn addition to a completed application, an applicant must submit:1. One set of official transcripts of the conferred BA degree andany post-Bachelor credits or degrees. Copies of all transcripts.2. Two copies of a 5-to-10 double-spaced, typewritten statement,covering the following areas:○ How do you define health?○ What brought you to apply to the Holistic Health Educationprogram?○ How does your choice to come to this program fit with whoyou are and your life or career aspirations?○ What significant experiences or events in your life journeycontribute to your readiness for this program?○ What do you foresee your future work to be? And, how willthis degree support that?3. Two letters of recommendation. Letters should be fromprofessional associates, teachers, supervisors or others who canassess capacity for graduate study in the degree area, as well ascomment on professional and personal development.Upon receipt of a completed application, an admissions interviewwill be scheduled. Applicants may be asked to submit additionaldocumentation to assess their capacity for success in the HHEprogram, including an additional writing sample.degree requirementsUndergraduate Prerequisitesese undergraduate courses or their approved equivalents areprerequisite to the graduate program. Students who have notcompleted them prior to admission are required to do so during thefirst year of graduate study.Undergraduate Prerequisites:LIB 3405 World Religions (0-4)HSC 3110 Anatomy and Physiology (0-4)All courses are 2 quarter units unless otherwise indicated.Curriculum:HHE 5001 Introduction to Holistic Health Education (0)HHE 5505 Student Review: Midpoint (0)HHE 5574 Preparing for Internship (0)HHE 5608 Demonstrating Mastery (0)CNS 5010 Paradigms of Consciousness (3)CNS 5410 Teaching Practicum APrerequisites: HHE 5225, HHE 5120, HHE 5512HHE 5120 Integrative HealthPrerequisite: HHE 5225HHE 5225 Foundations of Holistic Health EducationPrerequisite: HHE 5001HHE 5007 HHE Research and WritingHHE 5125 Energy Models of HealingPrerequisites: HHE 5225, LIB 3405HHE 5126 Asian Approaches to HealingPrerequisites: LIB 3405, HHE 5001HHE 5425 Moving and Sensing (3)Prerequisite: HHE 5001HHE 5130 e Collective BodyPrerequisite: HHE 5225HHE 5135 Healthcare Economics and PolicyPrerequisites: HHE 5200, HHE 5505HHE 5140 Culture, Community, and HealthPrerequisite: HHE 5158HHE 5145 Health, Environment and SustainabilityPrerequisite: HHE 5225HHE 5158 e Challenge of ChangePrerequisite: HHE 5225HHE 5150 Mind/Body Approaches to Self-CarePrerequisites: HHE 5512, CNS 5410HHE 5155 Foundations of Holistic NutritionPrerequisite: HHE 5001HHE 5156 Comparative Dietary ApproachesPrerequisites: HHE 5155College of Graduate andProfessional StudiesJOHN F. KENNEDy UNIvERSITy College of Graduate and Professional Studies 101