RP 400 Essentials of Distance Education

This course is often the student’s first opportunity to try a distance learning format. It is designed to aid the student through his or her distance education journey. It will help the student know what is expected for distance learning and aid the student in finding the answers needed to accomplish this goal. Finally, this course will prepare the student on how to begin college writing.

HM 401 Nutritional Counseling for the Health Care Practitioner

The student will learn the basics of nutrition starting with the components of food and how they are assimilated through the utilization of protein, carbohydrates, fats, calories, and nutrients. The impact of diet will be studied along with the concepts of toxicity, pH balance, cleansing, fasting, supplementation, enzymes, and the healing process.

CP 444 Health Psychology

This course examines the contributions of psychology to the treatment, prevention, and assessment of physical distress and disease. This course is geared to the student who has a personal interest and curiosity related to today’s health news or to his own experiences dealing with a family member or close friend. The course will review areas ranging from health enhancing and health endangering behaviors to major disease entities such as cancer. Relatively common health problems, such as heart disease and headaches, receive special attention, although other diseases such as Raynaud’s Disease, gastroesophageal reflex, are also discussed. The relationship of health psychology to pediatric and geriatric populations are covered and opportunities in the field are presented.

HS 451 Introduction to Nutrition

This course provides the student with an in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of basic nutrition. Through the course of study, the student will learn aspects of gastrointestinal nutrition, basic minerals, vitamin and enzyme nutrition, as well as an introduction to the study of amino acids and other pertinent nutrients.

HS 453 Anatomy and Physiology

Almost any aspect of health and healing involves some knowledge of what constitutes a healthy body and how it is supposed to work. This course introduces human anatomy and physiology together so that the student can appreciate the close relationship between structure and function. This course begins with basic concepts and the building blocks of life. It explores how these are combined into cells, tissues, organs and systems to achieve specific purposes through organization and metabolism. The course is designed so that the student who successfully masters it can be assured of being well prepared for other courses in the field of health and healing.

HS 450 Biochemistry – Primary

This course is based upon a unique text by Stephen Goldberg, M.D. It is designed to make learning biochemistry easy and even enjoyable. This course focuses on the concepts of biochemistry, and upon practical, clinical applications. This course is designed for all types of holistic practitioners, who will find it full of useful and relevant material about the chemistry of our bodies, and how it relates to health and disease.

HM 407 Preventive Health Care Protocol

This course will present an overview of health and health care. In our present society, there is a transition from crisis-oriented health care to preventive medicine and wellness care. This course will look at the impact that our personal habits, environment, society, lifestyles, foods, stress, past beliefs and negative attitudes have on our health as individuals and as a society. The student will learn how these factors affect our health. Students will learn how to identify them and change them. The course will provide information on how to do a wellness assessment and create an implementation plan for change.

HS 452 Applied Nutrition

This course provides the student with an intensive study of how nutritional applications can correct specific disorders of the body. Through dietary nutritional programs, the student will learn to counteract deficiencies by utilizing nutrition and diet for optimal health.

HS 468 Energy Medicine for the 21st Century

This course is designed to introduce the student to a variety of ancient healing techniques and concepts that are being incorporated into 21st century medicine. The student will discover ways in which to bring the body, mind, and spirit back into balance through the use of energy balancing. By adjusting the harmonic structure through different modalities, the student will discover the secrets of cellular regeneration. This course is about holism, and how ancient and present healers view disease and the various methods used to bring harmony and balance.

HS 455 Dietary Nutrition

This course is a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of various dietary regimens focusing on nutritional, spiritual, and social belief systems concerning foods. Vegetarianism, macrobiotics, raw food, food combining, hereditary predispositions, and health fads will be explored. Specific dietary recommendations for ailments such as candidacies, hypoglycemia, allergies, pre-menstrual, and auto-immune deficiency syndromes will be covered.

HS 457 Nutritional Counseling and Hair Mineral Analysis

A study of the scientific literature regarding minerals and their relation to biochemistry. The student will learn the theoretical concepts involved in interpretation of the test and clinical observations regarding the use of hair mineral analysis for understanding body chemistry, preventing illness, designing corrective programs, and monitoring progress. The laboratory procedures necessary will be explained.

HS 725 Blood Chemistry

This comprehensive course provides the BS and ND student with excellent resources on both conventional and alternative scopes of laboratory chemistries. Through reading and audio study, students learn the use of blood chemistry and urinalysis results in diagnosis and monitoring of a patient’s health. The course content focuses on assessment of nutritional status and chronic disease through use of basic lab test and presents in-depth study of acid-alkaline diet theory. This course also teaches how to monitor chronic disease states with up-to-date, scientific lab methods.

HS 464 History Taking

This course presents the theoretical and practical aspects of patient history taking. Ancillary diagnostic modalities used in Western medicine will be discussed in order to provide familiarity. Both the art and science of taking a history will be emphasized.

HS 454 Applied Nutrition / Herbology

The student will learn the therapeutic and healing properties of plants, including their physiological properties and active constituents. Specific formulas for treatment of acute and chronic disorders, plant identification and various herbal preparation methods will be depicted.

HE 420 Exercise Techniques for Health and Weight Management

The importance of exercise in addition to nutrition is emphasized. The student will learn how the body can make better use of nutrients with exercise incorporated in the lifestyle. Exercise helps the body maintain health as well as weight management. Exercises for the whole body are studied, including the slant board, which helps supply blood to the brain and relieve the organs from gravitational stress. Neck exercises, skin brushing, circulation exercises, and musculo-skeletal exercises are demonstrated. Kneipp water treatments, the use of the mini-trampoline, and various eye exercises are also described.

HS 445 Living Foods: Nutrition for Health, Recovery, and Prevention

This course will equip the student with an in-depth knowledge of raw and living foods and why they are effective in the human system. This course will cover edible plant foods, the way they are grown, and preferred ways to market for maximum nutrient conservation. The purpose of this course is to help the student integrate raw food nutrition with the programs of other health professionals and physicians for optimal health benefits.

HS 460 Colon Hygiene and Colon Hydrotherapy

The student will study the significance of colon hygiene in health covering areas such as absorption and assimilation of nutrients, cleansing procedures and detoxification, parasites and other related pathological disorders. Therapeutic programs designed to enhance or alleviate these situations will be examined. This curriculum is dedicated to the training of colon hydrotherapy therapists and to a renewed awareness by the medical and natural healing community as to the importance of colon hygiene.

HE 440 Natural Healing Methods

An in-depth study of natural healing methods and prevention of disease. Students will learn about fasting, eliminative diets, rejuvenating foods / herbs, hydrotherapy, exercise, water treatments, and replacing old tissue with new. This course examines some of the more chronic diseases including arthritis, asthma, heart disease, and cancer. It shows how disease is built through habits and lifestyle. Drug suppression and its effects are discussed. How to revitalize glands, promote healthy blood, and a healthy circulatory system are studied.

BA 405 Starting a Business

This course is designed to expose the student to real world requirements of how to create a successful business including management and marketing techniques.

MP 400 Understanding the Character and Temperament of Clients

People are different in many ways. They desire different things. The have different motives, aims, needs, drives, impulses, and urges. Each one of us is unique, but we do share similar characteristics and behavior. The student will also learn how to assess these differences in the client’s character and how this information can help the therapist to work with the client to reach a more positive outcome during therapy.

MP 401 How to Conduct the Clinical Interview

This course is designed to help the student prepare for the initial client interview. It will help the inexperienced practitioner to be more attuned to the client’s needs and to be successful in gathering the necessary data for assessment. This course will show the student how to properly organize and approach the initial phase of therapy. It also provides a framework for thinking about the information obtained during the interview so that the therapist can formulate a thorough assessment.

HS 459 Fasting and Detoxification: A Holistic Approach

This course provides the student with an in-depth knowledge of fasting and detoxification to restoring optimal bodily health. Therapeutic methods will be studied such as the cleansing diet, digestive wellness, juice fasting, and various tissue cleansing procedures.

HS 469 Nutritional Herbology

This course provides the student with a nutritional profile for over 106 commonly used herbs and natural foods. These nutritional profiles of herbs provide the basis for analyzing traditional uses of each herb and the most popular herbal combinations and formulas. Students will learn the history and use of these herbs with the nutritional profile to explain and interpret many historical uses of herbs as foods and medicines. Herbal or Botanical Science is rapidly playing a major role in 21st century medicine and health care. This course will empower the student with special knowledge about herbs and their nutritional value.

HS 442 Jurisprudence and Ethics

This course will teach the student how to research the State and Federal laws regulating the practice of medicine and nutrition. This course will help the student establish the difference between a health practice and a medical practice. The student will learn about different types of health practitioners and what constitutes a licensed professional.

IA 403 Dreams: The Secret Language of Sleep

Learn to interpret dreams to aid in the understanding of self, others, and problems. Explore dreams and their schemes, symbols, and personal messages. This course includes a dream dictionary and a dream glossary.

BA 404 Business Accounting

This student will study various business accounting statements and be able to make the individual entries associated with each. The text is designed to give current and future managers a working knowledge of the forms associated with the accounting function in an organization.

RP 401 Research Project: Basics for Research

Students will become familiar with basic research techniques through study and hands on activities such as conducting interviews and writing abstracts. This course will cover topics such as strategies and storage of data collected, ethics and confidentiality, interviewing, and analysis. This course is designed to guide and assist the student with the basics needed to conduct a research project prior to the completion of a formal thesis.

TH 410 BS Thesis – 10,000 word minimum

Upon completion of the required credit hours of course work, the student will submit a 10,000-word thesis, demonstrating his or her understanding of the field of their choice. Students will have to demonstrate their grasp of the basic concepts in their fields and are encouraged to do a comparative study of techniques or philosophies. Students will be able to apply some of their homework towards their thesis, if relevant to the proposal.