Health Classes on Campus

     As November 12th quickly approaches, students are eagerly preparing themselves to make their schedules for the Spring 2011 semester. No matter what your major is, there is a health class offered that would benefit you in many ways. Even if you don't have time during your academic schedule to take a course, there are many other courses and seminars offered throughout the year that would help increase your health knowledge.


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     Adelphi University offers a Health Studies program to receive a degree in Physical Education as well as Health Education. This program offers classes such as Health and Nutrition, Issues of Community Health, Contemporary Health Issues, and many other classes to choose from. These classes, however are not limited to Health Studies majors. If you would like to see which health classes you are eligible for you can check out your Degreeworks and  C.L.A.S.S account or talk to your advisor.

     

      Besides courses during the day, there are also many events that occur in the afternoon or at night to help promote a healthy lifestyle on the campus. As advertised all over the campus and the community, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In the beginning of the month, there was a breast cancer walk around the track in the Center for Recreation of Sports. The walk was for 20 minutes at a time with a donation of $5 going to the Breast Cancer Hotline. All the sports teams as well as many students and faculty participated in this event. This was just the beginning of the breast cancer events for the month. About a week ago, a female seminar was held in the Campbell lounges, located in the Center of Recreation of Sports, demonstrating to females how to give themselves a self breast examination.

     The most popular health classes on the Adelphi University campus are the free Group Fitness classes that are offered every week throughout the year. These classes include:

Kickboxing

Yoga

Total Body with Fitball

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Pilates

Ab Attack

Boot Camp

Fitball

Zumba

Spin

You can check out the semester schedule for fall 2010 or check out the Group Fitness class photo album. Group fitness classes are a great way to stay in shape and meet new friends that also want to stay in shape.