# Health Education (HLTH) courses

Yuba College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 7 courses

Source: https://yc.yccd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Yuba-College-Catalog-26.pdf#page=121

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### HLTH-1 — Health and Life Style Choices

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC (with credit limitation)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 9 sections (/c/yuba-college/schedule/fall-2026/hlth.md)

This course focuses on health and wellness concepts important in making informed choices about one’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. A personal approach to health and wellness will be explored through self-assessment and practical application to every day life. Topics such as fitness, obesity, weight management, nutrition, stress, substance use and abuse, prevention of diseases, sexual health, relationships, mental health, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and healthy aging will be discussed.

### HLTH-3 — First Aid & CPR for Kinesiology Majors

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours, 2 lab hours
- **C-ID:** KIN 101
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/yuba-college/schedule/fall-2026/hlth.md)

This course involves the theory and detailed demonstration of the first aid care of the injured. The student will learn to assess a victim’s condition and incorporate proper treatment. Standard first aid, CPR, and AED (automated external defibrillator) certification(s) will be granted upon successful completion of requirements. Grades are P/NP Option.

### HLTH-4 — Psychosocial Health

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC (with credit limitation)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/yuba-college/schedule/fall-2026/hlth.md)

Explores how attitudes and emotions affect physical health along with emotional health, and how psychosocial health can play a role in prevention of disease. This class presents current research on the link between the mind and the body.

### HLTH-5 — Sport Psychology

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Provides a concentrated study of human behavior in the context of participating in sport and how behavior (performance) is affected by other sources. Includes study about motivation, the brain’s impact on performance, stress, goal setting, sport imagery and current research into sport performance.

### HLTH-6 — Aging and Health

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Designed to introduce students to the basic aging and health concerns of older people and to broader issues of aging, health and society. Examines the: demography of the aging population, biological theories of aging, social and psychological aspects of aging, and the aging of the body’s major physiological systems. Grades are P/NP Option.

### HLTH-10 — Principles of Nutrition

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** NUTR 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC (with credit limitation)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/yuba-college/schedule/fall-2026/hlth.md)

In-depth study of nutrients and their functions, chemical composition of foods and their utilization in the body. Course topics such as weight loss, sports nutrition, food safety, the diet-disease relationship, global nutrition, and individual’s nutritional needs throughout the life cycle are emphasized. Course includes assessment of the student’s own nutritional health.

### HLTH-13 — Nutrition and Life Fitness

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC (with credit limitation)
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

The analysis and evaluation of current practices and theories regarding nutrition and exercise and their relationship to weight control and physical fitness. Individualized exercise prescription and nutritional analysis will be completed by each student.