National Wellness Conference for Professionals
| Course | Section | Credits | Format | |||
| HPW 490/690 | 79 | 1-3 | Face-to-face |
Course Description
This course explores current issues in the professional field of
health promotion and wellness. Class readings, discussions and
participation/analysis of various presentations at the National
Wellness Conference will contribute to the up-dating and development
of professional skills.
Learning Objectives:
- Become familiar with the UWSPs approach to wellness by assessing your own level of wellness, and determine how you will change your own personal wellness.
- Explore current contemporary issues as related to health promotion and wellness.
- Define, explore and seek to answer your own self-defined question as it pertains to you personally, your family, your community and the organization you work for?
- Discuss how you will apply what you have learned to your profession.
Registration for the National Wellness Conference is required in addition to UWSP tuition. For conference information, visit the National Wellness Conference call 800-243-8694 or visit their Web site: www.nationalwellness.org
Be sure to inquire about the NWI Student Member rate for the main week of the conference plus the annual Student Membership fee.
The student rates for the main
conference are:
Current NWI student member = $325
Non-NWI student member = $385
Annual student membership fee = $59
UWSP Dietetics, Family & Consumer Sciences, and Health Promotion undergrad students or Human and Community Resources and Nutritional Sciences masters students may apply for a conference fee waiver. Students must apply for fee waivers by submitting a short, 1-page application that is due to the School of Health Promotion & Human Development, 101 CPS, by May 10, 2010.
For information on hotels, lodging and dining in the Stevens Point area, please visit the Convention and Visitors Bureau at http://www.spacvb.com/
Textbook None
Instructor
Anne Abbott
Dates/Times
Sunday, July 18 from 5pm - 6:30pm
Thursday, July 22 from 3:45 - 5pm
Attendance at the National Wellness Conference is required for
credit.
2010 conference dates: Saturday, July 17 - Thursday, July 22
Location
July 18 & 22: UW-Stevens Point, College of Professional Studies,
Room 228
National Wellness Conference held on the UW-Stevens Point campus
Tuition and Fees
WI Undergraduate - 1 credit:
$259.29
WI Undergraduate - 2 credits:
$516.58
WI Undergraduate - 3 credits:
$773.87
WI Graduate - 1 credit: $402.80
WI Graduate - 2 credits: $803.60
WI Graduate - 3 credits: $1204.40
Registration fees, lodging, meals, etc. for National Wellness
Conference are in addition to UWSP tuition.
This course meets the following Wisconsin Teaching Standards
- 1 Content
- 2 Methods
- 3 Diversity
- 4 Instruction
- 5 Management
- 6 Communications
- 9 Reflection
- 10 Professionalism
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