Course Description

Are you eating healthy foods? Do you exercise regularly? Do you know how to prevent injuries and disease? These are some of the skills necessary to live a healthy lifestyle. Through self-evaluation, weekly journals, and hands-on exercises students assess their personal lifestyles and learn how to improve them.

General Education Theme Area(s)

This is a General Education course that supports learning in the following theme area(s): Personal Understanding

Essential Employability Skills

This course contributes to your program by helping you achieve the following Essential Employability Skills:

EES 1 Communicate clearly, concisely and correctly in the written, spoken and visual form that fulfills the purpose and meets the needs of the audience. (A)
EES 2 Respond to written, spoken or visual messages in a manner that ensures effective communication. (A)
EES 6 Locate, select, organize and document information using appropriate technology and information systems. (T)
EES 7 Analyze, evaluate and apply relevant information from a variety of sources. (T)
EES 10 Manage the use of time and other resources to complete projects. (T, A)
Assessment Levels —T: Taught A: Assessed CP: Culminating Performance 

Course Learning Outcomes / Elements of Performance

When you have earned credit for this course, you will have demonstrated the ability to:

1. Compare your daily diet to the Canadian Food Guide.

  • Follow and evaluate the Canadian Food Guide.

2. Estimate your daily energy requirement using food and nutrition board formulas.

  • Calculate your daily energy requirement for weight maintenance.

3. Identify weight-loss goals and way to meet them.

  • Calculate your weekly and daily negative calorie balance goals and the number of weeks to achieve your target weight.
  • Assess yourself for body image problems and eating discorders.

4. Complete lab activities to assess your physical fitness profile that will help produce your personal exercise schedule.

  • Identify and assess your exercise habits.
  • Employ an assessment to determine where you need improvement.

5. Identify various injuries, treatments and preventions.

  • Identify, treat and prevent injuries.

6. Use and identify various reliable resources in order to research how chemical substances affect physical fitness and how to help prevent  heart disease, cancer and sexually transmitted disease.

  • To prevent or minimize the risk of cancer, heart disease and sexually transmitted diseases.
  • Describe different chemical substances and how they affect physical fitness.

7. Reflect on your own personal reactions to the topic of the week by keeping a weekly journal.

  • Record and articulate your opinon on healthy lifestyle issues.

Pre-defined Evaluation / Earning Credit

The following list provides evidence of this course's learning achievements and the outcomes they validate:

Assignment(s) (25%)

Validates Outcomes:  EES 6, EES 7, EES 10

Assignment(s) (25%)

Validates Outcomes:  CLO 4, EES 6, EES 7, EES 10

Journal/Reflective Assignment(s) (25%)

Validates Outcomes:  CLO 7, EES 2, EES 7, EES 10

Quiz(zes)/Test(s) (7.5%)

Validates Outcomes:  CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3, CLO 4, CLO 5, CLO 6, CLO 7, EES 1, EES 2, EES 6, EES 7, EES 10

Discussion Forum (17.5%)

Validates Outcomes:  CLO 6, EES 1

Learning Resources

  • Required e-text or print copy:    Custom Healthy Lifestyle GEN2003 Algonquin College 
  • Authors:  Fahey, Insel, Roth, Wong.             
  • Publisher:  McGraw-Hill Ryerson
  • Research on the Internet   
  • On-line discussion groups
  • Labs                 

Learning Activities

  •  Keeping a weekly journal.
  •  Planning a healthy diet.
  •  Planning an exercise schedule.
  •  Labs.
  •  On-line discussion groups.

Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition

Students who wish to apply for Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) need to demonstrate competency at a post-secondary level in all outlined course learning outcomes. Evidence of learning achievement for PLAR candidates includes:

  • Other: Presentation of a portfolio followed by an interview.

Other Information

Grade Scheme

Final Grade Mark Equivalent Numeric Value Final Grade Mark Equivalent Numeric Value
A+ 90% - 100% 4.0 A 85% - 89% 3.8
A- 80% - 84% 3.6 B+ 77% - 79% 3.3
B 73% - 76% 3.0 B- 70% - 72% 2.7
C+ 67% - 69% 2.3 C 63% - 66% 2.0
C- 60% - 62% 1.7 D+ 57% - 59% 1.4
D 53% - 56% 1.2 D- 50% - 52% 1.0
F 0% - 49% 0 FSP 0 0

Course Related Information

Please refer to the Course Section Information (CSI) / weekly schedule for specific course-related information as provided by your professor.
Late assignments and make up assignments are not accepted in this course.

Program Information

Department Information

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROGRESSION AND GRADUATION
Students are responsible for ensuring program progression and graduation requirements are being met throughout their program.   Resources include the program website, your program coordinator academic advisors and student success specialists.   

STUDENT SUCCESS SPECIALIST
Your Student Success Specialist is Tony Mendes.  Tony may be reached at (613) 727-4723 extension 6091 or by e-mail at mendest@algonquincollege.com

ALGONQUIN COLLEGE - CODE OF CONDUCT
All members of the Algonquin Community will undertake to:

1. Conduct themselves in a manner which respects and promotes the dignity of others, and interact with others in the community in a spirit of cooperation, goodwill and mutual respect.

2. Conduct themselves in an honest and ethical manner, refraining from using their position or power to exploit any other individual , refraining from misrepresenting themselves, their work or qualifications in any manner, and refraining from violence, abuse, harassment and discrimination of any kind.

3. Assist in the maintenance of good order within their environment and refrain from creating a disturbance or a disruption to activities.

The Code of Conduct applies to students and staff of Algonquin College while at all College locations and while representing or carrying out activities related to the College at any off-campus location.

CONFIDENTIALITY
Students are required to respect the confidentiality of employer, client and/or patient information, interactions, and practices that occur either on AlgonquinCollege premises, or at an affiliated clinical/field/co-op placement site. Concerns regarding clients, patients, and/or employer practices are to be brought to the attention of the program coordinator, or designated field/clinical/co-op placement supervisor so that they may be resolved collaboratively. Such concerns are not to be raised publically either verbally, in writing, or in electronic forums. These matters are to be addressed through established program communication pathways.

College Related Information

Email
Algonquin College provides all full-time students with an e-mail account. This is the address that will be used when the College, your professors, or your fellow students communicate important information about your program or course events. It is your responsibility to ensure that you know how to send and receive e-mail using your Algonquin account and to check it regularly.

Students with Disabilities
If you are a student with a disability, you are strongly encouraged to make an appointment at the Centre for Accessible Learning to identify your needs. Ideally, this should be done within the first month of your program, so that a Letter of Accommodation (LOA) can be provided to your professors. If you are a returning student, please ensure that professors are given a copy of your LOA each semester.

Retroactive Accommodations
Students are expected to meet evaluation and completion deadlines as stated in course outline and course section information documents. In circumstances where evaluation and/or completion deadlines are missed or student performance has been affected by a temporary or permanent disability (including mental health), interim or retroactive accommodations may be considered. In such instances, please consult your course faculty member. For other situations where deferral of evaluations may be warranted, please refer to college policy AA21.

Academic Integrity & Plagiarism
Algonquin College is committed to the highest standards of academic integrity, and expects students to adhere to these standards as part of the learning process. Academic work submitted by a student is evaluated on the assumption that the work presented by the student is his or her own, unless designated otherwise.  The College’s Policies AA18: Academic Dishonesty and Discipline and AA20: Plagiarism seeks to ensure that all students understand their rights and responsibilities in upholding the values of academic integrity.
 In some courses, online proctoring may be used. Additional information can be found at https://www.algonquincollege.com/studentsupportservices/student-learning-kit/preparing-to-learn-online/

Student Course Feedback
It is Algonquin College’s policy to give students the opportunity to share their course experience by completing a student course feedback survey for each course they take. For further details consult Algonquin College Policy AA25: Student Course Feedback

Use of Mobile Devices in Class
With the proliferation of small, personal mobile devices used for communications and data storage, Algonquin College believes there is a need to address their use during classes and examinations. During classes, the use of such devices is disruptive and disrespectful to others. During examinations, the use of such devices may facilitate cheating. For further details consult Algonquin College Policy AA32: Use of Mobile Devices in Class

Technology Requirements – New for 2020-21
As Algonquin College continues to respond to public health guidelines, many courses will be offered through remote delivery. As such, students will be required to have access to a computer and to the internet. There may also be additional technology-related resources required to participate in a course that are not included in the course materials fee, such as headphones, webcams, specialized software, etc. Details on these requirements can be found in the Course Section Information of the course outline for each course.

Transfer of Credit
It is the student’s responsibility to retain course outlines for possible future use to support applications for transfer of credit to other educational institutions.

Note:  It is the student’s responsibility to refer to the Algonquin College Policies website for the most current information at http://www.algonquincollege.com/policies/