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School of Holistic StudiesSchool ofHolistic StudiesMA in Holistic Health EducationThe Master of Arts in Holistic Health Education reflects cuttingedgeunderstanding of theory and practice in health educationfrom a holistic perspective, embracing body, mind, spirit, and anon-local understanding of energy. One of the most importantvalues of this paradigm applied to health is a focus on wellness.All courses aim to enable graduates to be leaders in integratingalternative and mainstream approaches, East and West thoughtapproaches, science and spirit, and concept and applications.Personal transformation is an essential component. The programoffers opportunities for students to enhance their own health andwell-being, for example, through working with movement, diet,and developing or solidifying a spiritual practice. The programalso recognizes the potential of the holistic health perspectiveto facilitate positive societal transformation. It seeks to providean educational experience that enables representatives of thisperspective to clearly articulate their position to others. Graduatescan also participate in, and contribute meaningfully to, the multifacetedprocess of transformative health education.The program provides the concepts, applications, and practicenecessary so that students can develop themselves personally andprofessionally to meet their own aspirations to work as teachers,researchers, writers in holistic health, consultants, and professionalswho start their own businesses and healing centers, developprograms, or become health coaches, to name a few.Optional specializations include holistic nutrition; health,consciousness, and spirituality; and somatic education.Program Learning Outcomes• Demonstrate an integral perspective. In clear language andwithout jargon, graduates will be able to define health—body,mind, and spirit—from an integral perspective that recognizesthe inherent value of traditional, allopathic, and holisticworldviews and healing paradigms.• Demonstrate knowledge—general. (1) of theories relevantto holistic health education, (2) of current research andhealth information, and (3) of models and issues related tointegrative health.• Demonstrate knowledge—specific. Graduates will chooseand be able to demonstrate understanding of theory, issues,health information, research, and applications in an area offocus or specialization within holistic health education.• Explain about healing modalities. In clear language andwithout jargon, graduates will be able to explain the basicphilosophies of health and healing and the basics of diagnosisand treatment (to the level appropriate for health educators)in a variety of modalities of health care, conventional andalternative, East and West. Also to demonstrate familiaritywith up-to-date research that substantiates the benefitsof these modalities.• Practice holistic health professionally. Apply an integralperspective of health, education, and knowledge of bestpractices in the field as a foundation for professional practicein health education.• Embody a healthy approach. Graduates will be able todemonstrate a functioning personal practice of wellness,integrally defined.• Act from values. Graduates will act from the followingvalues in the practice of health education: professional ethics,respect for diversity, interest in integrative approaches,desire to be an agent of change, desire to be of service,commitment to access to health care for all, respect for theimplications of the interconnection of all life.Courses Units Prerequisite(s) Co-Requisite(s)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Undergraduate Prerequisites 1COR 3145 Research Writing 0–3 COR 3100_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________PHR 3405 World Religions 0–3 —_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________PYC 3200 Personality and Psychotherapy 0–4 —_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________SCI 3110 Anatomy and Physiology 0–4 —_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Program Matters_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________HHE 5001 Introduction to Holistic Health Education 0 —_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________HHE 5505 Student Review: Midpoint 0 —_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Conceptual Framework_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________CNS 5010 Paradigms of Consciousness 3 —_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________HHE 5120 Integrative Health 2 HHE 5001_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________HHE 5225 Principles of Holistic Health 2 HHE 5001 (may be taken as pre- or co-requisite)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Overview of Modalities_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________HHE 5225HHE 5125 Energy Models of Healing 2 { PHR 3405_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________HHE 5001HHE 5126 Asian Approaches to Healing 2 { PHR 3405_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________HHE 5425 Moving and Sensing 3 HHE 5001 (may be taken as pre- or co-requisite)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Continued next page.116 School of Holistic Studies John F. 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