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College of
Professional Studies
College of Professional Studies
of learning, teaching, and curricula issues and a comprehensive
understanding of the problems and potentials of education.
Students fulfill the first 42 units of the program when they complete
the preliminary credential program, generally finishing in spring
term. Students then continue with the final 18-unit sequence over
the next year—while working as teachers in classrooms—to
complete the master’s degree.
Throughout the program, students examine the social, cultural,
economic, and political issues facing the United States and explore
how teachers can address these issues in the classroom. Elective
courses may be selected from those offered by the Education
program or from approved courses offered by the College of
Professional Studies.
The research Writing and Methodology Proposal, Thesis research
Project, and thesis requirements reinforce the relevance of
classroom theory and discussion and encourage realistic and
committed action. Students design, complete, and evaluate a
research and action project that addresses an issue of social justice
Holistic Health Education
The Holistic Health Education (HHE) program reflects cutting-edge
understanding of theory and practice in health education from a
holistic perspective, embracing body, mind, spirit, and a non-local
understanding of energy. One of the most important values of this
paradigm applied to health is a focus on wellness. All courses aim
to enable graduates to be leaders in integrating alternative and
mainstream approaches, East and West thought approaches, science
and spirit, and concept and applications.
Personal transformation is an essential component. The program
offers opportunities for students to enhance their own health and
well-being, for example, through working with movement, diet,
and developing or solidifying a spiritual practice. The program also
recognizes the potential of the holistic health perspective to
facilitate positive societal transformation. It seeks to provide an
educational experience that enables representatives of this
perspective to clearly articulate their position to others. Gradu ates
can also participate in, and contribute meaningfully to, the
multifaceted process of transformative health education.
Ma in holistic health education
The Master of Arts in Holistic Health Education program provides
the concepts, applications, and practice necessary so that students
can develop themselves personally and professionally to meet their
own aspirations to work as teachers, researchers, writers in holistic
health, consultants, and profes sionals who start their own
businesses and healing centers, develop programs, or become
health coaches, to name a few.
Optional specializations include holistic nutrition; health,
con sciousness, and spirituality; and somatics in health education.
Program goals
The goal of the HHE program is to promote an integrally informed
vision of health and to promote a cadre of health educators who
in the education community. research Writing and Methodology
introduces students to inquiry-based action research methodology
and thesis proposal writing. In Proposal, students continue to refine
the research project started in research Writing and Methodology,
complete a survey of the literature, and outline a community
research project. In Thesis research Project, students’ projects
promote social justice in the education community through work
with children, parents, teachers, community agencies, or some
combination of these. In Thesis, students describe and analyze the
project and make recommendations for further work in the field.
This sequence offers a vigorous approach to studying education
and innovative preparation for the community classroom.
Program learning outcomes
Students will demonstrate ability and capacity to:
• Evaluate and critique educational research.
• Apply qualitative methodology (with emphasis on action
research).
• Integrate research methodology in educational setting to inform
their work.
• develop in-depth expertise in a self-selected educational area.
embody this personally and professionally, acting from the highest
values, including:
• Professional ethics;
• respect for diversity and commitment to access to health
education for all;
• Interest in integrative approaches;
• desire to serve and to act as an agent of change;
• Active and responsible participation in our communities, local
to global.
Program learning outcomes
• Apply an integral perspective. Graduates will be able to define
health—body, mind, and spirit—from an integrally-informed
perspective that recognizes the inherent value of traditional,
allopathic, and holistic worldviews and healing paradigms.
• Demonstrate knowledge—general. Graduates will
demonstrate knowledge of (1) theories relevant to holistic health
education, (2) current research and health information, and (3)
models and issues related to integra tive health.
• Demonstrate knowledge—specific. Graduates will choose and
be able to demonstrate understanding of theory, issues, health
information, research, and applications in an area of focus or
specialization within holistic health education.
• Explain about healing modalities. Graduates will be able to
explain the basic philoso phies of health and healing and the
basics of diagnosis and treatment (to the level appropriate for
health educators) in a variety of modalities of health care,
conventional and alterna tive, East and West. They will also be
able to demonstrate familiarity with up-to-date research that
substantiates the benefits of these modalities.
• Professional practice. Graduates will be able to apply an
integrally-informed perspective of health, education, and
knowledge of best prac tices in the field as a foundation for
professional practice in health education. They will possess a high
level of professional skills, including, but not limited to the
following:
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