KINS 4530 - Holistic Health

3 unit(s)

(Formerly Health in a Diverse Society) Course explores the traditional ways of health and healing practices rooted in different ethnic groups and the role of selected complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices and promotions in the healthcare system. Emphasis will be placed on experiential ways to promote healing and optimum health in the individual. Juniors and Seniors only.

Course Learning Outcomes List

Students will be able to:

1. Identify five historic events that describe the history, philosophy, and current status of holistic health and its practice (PLO #1);

2. Use your own words to paraphrase the definitions of complementary medicine, alternative medicine, integrative medicine and conventional medicine and provide two examples of healing modalities for each medicine (PLO #1);

3. Use 10 essential concepts to map one of three traditional holistic healing practices for each ethnic group. There is a total of seven groups for twenty-one traditional healing practices. The seven ethnic communities are divided into North America Natives, Caucasian, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Middle East and Central Asia, Latino and Hispanic community, and contemporary CAIM community (PLO #1);

4. Devise your own system to compare the labyrinth of medical systems between traditional Healing Medicine system and conventional western health care system (PLO #1);

5. Generalize five fundamental principles and/or philosophy for each traditional healing medicine (PLO #1);

6. Experiment Yoga as Medicine one hour a day for a total of 21 days and reflect the experiential effects of body, mind, emotion, life force and interconnectedness in weekly holistic healing journal (PLO #8); and,

7. Critically weight the significance of traditional and western medicines (PLO #8).

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