American Samoa Community College MOODLE
15 Week Session
This course will provide the beginning student who is interested in health occupations with the basic entry-level knowledge and skills required for a variety of health careers. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Daniel Chang
This course will provide knowledge about general health and health care services available to the individual, by presenting core concepts regarding scientifically based, accurate, up-to-date information to students about topics and issues concerning nutrition, weight control, contraception, exercise, intimate relationships, stress, AIDS, drugs, alcohol, and a multitude of other health issues. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Daniel Chang
Medical terminology introduces the student to a special vocabulary used by health care professionals. This course will assist students learning certain methods that will enable them to remember familiar terms and understand new ones. These methods involve breaking each word into component parts, learning the meaning of these parts, and recognizing them when they appear in different terms. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Daniel Chang
This course will provide the student with basic life support skills needed for adults and children during life threatening emergency situations. The student will participate and adequately demonstrate these emergency life support skills design to increase their knowledge needed in order to receive an American Red Cross or American Heart Association certificate in CPR and Basic First Aid. (Note: 1 lecture credit)
- Teacher: Daniel Chang
This course will provide knowledge about general health and health care services available to the individual, by presenting core concepts regarding scientifically based, accurate, up-to-date information to students about topics and issues concerning nutrition, weight control, contraception, exercise, intimate relationships, stress, AIDS, drugs, alcohol, and a multitude of other health issues. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Derek Helsham
This course provides an overview of the guidance and counseling profession through a presentation of the history and background of the basic theories of counseling and the foundation of counseling and guidance programs from traditional to current times. The course includes the role and function of the counselor in the schools, community and agency settings and various techniques, issues and trends of the counseling profession. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Derek Helsham
This is a public health inquiry course which centers on health promotion and disease prevention. Emphasis is placed on personal, community, and population health, and its interdisciplinary connections to other health care fields. Biomedical research ethics, critical thinking and analysis of public health problems that may affect the health and well-being of the individual and the community will be introduced. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Daniel Chang