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Health and Wellness Coaching Noncredit Certificate
This certificate will equip you with the skills and knowledge to promote lasting health improvements through behavior change, nutrition, and physical activity in various allied health settings.
Noncredit Certificate | SC Program: NCR.1007
The Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate is designed to help you build the skills to improve health and wellness for individuals and groups through behavior change, nutrition, and physical activity. You'll learn the science behind these areas and how to apply evidence-based strategies to promote long-term health. With this certificate, you'll be prepared to guide healthy lifestyle changes in hospitals, clinics, workplaces, non-profits, and private businesses.
This program is intended for students planning careers as health coaches, personal trainers, dietitians, nurses, physical therapists, physician assistants, or other allied health professionals. It's also ideal if you already have an Associate of Arts or another degree and want to enhance your expertise and career in health and wellness coaching.
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Map your education by viewing the program map for the degree or certificate you’re interested in earning below. Meet with a counselor to create your official comprehensive education plan.
A program map shows all the required and recommended courses you need to graduate and a suggested order in which you should take them. The suggested sequence of courses is based on enrollment and includes all major and general education courses required for the degree.
Fall Semester, First Year
0 Units TotalNUTR 330
Health and Wellness Coaching
NUTR 330
This course provides students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to be a health and wellness coach. Emphasis is placed on effective coach-to-client communication techniques as well as the fundamentals of coaching structure, goal setting, and behavioral change techniques as they relate to health and wellness coaching. The course will cover the legal considerations, professional ethics, responsibilities, liabilities, scope of practice, and role of the health and wellness coach. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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NUTR 335
Integrative Nutrition and Wellness
NUTR 335
Advisory: NUTR 25 with a grade of C or higher
Integrative nutrition combines principles of medical nutrition therapy with integrative and functional lifestyle medicine to provide the science and application behind healthy lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of chronic, lifestyle-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and other chronic conditions. Lifestyle medicine connects the science of physical activity, nutrition, stress resiliency, sleep hygiene, and behavior change to the advancement of the total person's mental, emotional, and physical well-being. This course offers students the evidence-based knowledge and practical strategies to instill healthy lifestyle behaviors in clients and patients. This course is intended for students completing certification in the Health and Wellness Coaching Program. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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Integrative nutrition combines principles of medical nutrition therapy with integrative and functional lifestyle medicine to provide the science and application behind healthy lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of chronic, lifestyle-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and other chronic conditions. Lifestyle medicine connects the science of physical activity, nutrition, stress resiliency, sleep hygiene, and behavior change to the advancement of the total person's mental, emotional, and physical well-being. This course offers students the evidence-based knowledge and practical strategies to instill healthy lifestyle behaviors in clients and patients. This course is intended for students completing certification in the Health and Wellness Coaching Program. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
NUTR 345
Applications of Health/Wellness Coaching
NUTR 345
This course helps students enhance their coaching skills with practice sessions and instructor feedback. It also covers the ethical and legal implications of health and wellness coaching. This course is designed to provide students in the Health and Wellness Coaching Program with practical experience in the field of wellness coaching. This course may be offered in a distance education format.
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Please see a counselor to discuss options for meeting general education requirements for transfer to California State Universities (CSU) and/or University of California (UC) campuses, as well as any specific additional courses that may be required by your chosen institution of transfer.
*Alternative Courses: Please see a Shasta College counselor for alternative course options. You can also view the following to find other courses to meet degree/certificate requirements:
- California State Universities – General Education
- IGETC – Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
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