Student Health 101 Courses
SLEEP, EAT, AND EXERCISE
Sleep, Eat, and Exercise (SEE) introduces students to the knowledge and skills they need to create a balanced lifestyle while in college, emphasizing basic concepts of sleep, nutrition, and physical activity.
From a student perspective, our SEE course reveals how inactivity, poor nutrition, and inadequate sleep are common problems among college students and are leading contributors to a variety of short- and long-term consequences. This course shares how research indicates that healthy habits can reduce stress and improve academic performance, in addition to improving health.
The Need for Sleep, eat, and exercise
The transition to college involves a lot of change. While students tend to enjoy their newfound freedom, many of them struggle to manage the responsibilities and choices that come along with it. They find it difficult to get an appropriate amount of sleep, make healthy food and beverage choices, and exercise regularly—and there are no more parents, teachers, or coaches to provide structure and boundaries.
When asked about what makes it difficult for college students to be physically active, eat a balanced diet, and get adequate sleep, students are quick to respond, “It’s just hard.” Ultimately, they identify lack of time and knowledge as the largest barriers. Inconvenience, expense, and unimportance are also common.
Sleep, Eat, and Exercise attempts to address all of these issues in hopes of providing students tools they need to live a healthy, balanced life in college and beyond. The course incorporates relevant, current information on all of these topics in an engaging manner. Students are provided with a forum for discussing their concerns and obtaining answers to questions they might have. They are asked to critically reflect on their own health-related behaviors, as well as campus and societal influences. Upon completion of the course, students report they feel much better prepared to juggle the demands of college and to maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle in the process.
Why sleep, eat, and exercise Works
In addition to providing information, SEE provides students with practical strategies for getting adequate sleep, eating well, and being active. The course incorporates a variety of techniques to promote self-awareness, reflection, goal setting, and action toward wellness.
Course description
Sleep, Eat, and Exercise is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to live a balanced life while in college. It covers basic concepts in nutrition, sleep, and physical activity and incorporates a variety of techniques to promote self-awareness and reflection, goal setting, and action toward wellness.
Course objectives
The overall course goals are to provide students with:
- Accurate information about sleep, nutrition, exercise, and stress management.
- Compelling reasons to meet sleep, nutrition, and activity recommendations.
- Practical advice about how to incorporate healthy habits into college life.
- Confidence in their ability to positively impact your health and well-being.
In general, at the end of the course, students will be able to identify:
- The recommendations for sleep, physical activity, and nutrition.
- Short- and long-term benefits and consequences of lifestyle choices related to sleep, nutrition, and activity.
- Healthy ways to manage stress.
- Practical strategies for achieving healthy sleep, activity, and nutrition habits and managing stress within the life of a college student.
Sleep, Eat, and Exercise incorporates a variety of activities to promote an increase in self-reflection, goal setting, and action towards wellness. Students will:
- Evaluate their perceptions of what is healthy and the factors that influence their ability to be healthy.
- Assess how they spend their time, as well as their current eating, sleeping, and exercising patterns.
- Identify key barriers that prevent them from meeting physical activity, nutrition, and sleep recommendations and managing stress in healthy ways.
- Evaluate the pros and cons of making behavioral and/or environmental changes in order to modify their current physical activity, nutrition, and sleep patterns.
- Assess their readiness to change physical activity, nutrition, and sleep patterns.
- Set realistic goals and develop a personal action plan for working toward improved physical activity, nutrition, and sleep.
Course Impact
Survey data from the 2012 spring semester confirms the positive impact of
Sleep, Eat, and Exercise:
- 90% of students agree that the course is relevant to their life experiences and 86% agree that it has improved their health-related behaviors.
- 98% of students would recommend the course to others.
“I feel like the course provided me with many ways to be overall happier and healthier”.
“I really liked all the practical knowledge that this course provided. I feel like it will be very useful throughout my life.”
“I wish I had discovered Sleep, Eat, and Exercise earlier on in my academic career. The main strength was how the topics in this course all tie together and directly affect your life.”
“This course did a great job of explaining health-related topics to students with little prior knowledge, and those who are not pursuing a major in the health field.”
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