meganrussell Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 The title pretty much says it all, if we do an intensive health/nutrition study with some anatomy, could that be a science credit? What would you call it? I'm talking at least an hour daily, five days a week, for 180 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Anatomy and physiology would count as a science credit. I imagine one could address health related topis within the course as they come up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I would call it something other than health, but I could see doing anatomy/physiology and nutrition as a science elective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 In dd's senior year, she did A&P for science (1 credit) and health as an elective (half credit). The two courses went nicely together and did have some overlap of topics. Personally I wouldn't count the time spent on health (whether intertwined with A&P or separate as we did it) for science credit. It just doesn't seem to really "fit" with the expectations colleges will probably have for a science course. When I was in high school, health was under Physical Education--and that's also where our local CC places it. It does intersect science of course, and I suppose you could make it very science-y...but I think it puts you in a position of needing to "prove" it's a science course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I would. I'd call it something other than Health though. Maybe 1 semester of A&P and the other as Nutrition Science- with lab even (lots of real science goes into understand nutrition and how we process nutrients). Now if you were doing a typical health class with sections on peer pressure, drug use, etc... from a social perspective then no, I wouldn't count it as science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 (edited) 180 hours would certainly be a full/rigorous Health course, and would certainly be a full 1.0 credit -- but not of Science. Health is counted as an Elective -- same with Nutrition, unless it includes a lot of the Chemistry aspects (as with a college Nutrition course). Anatomy is usually counted as Science -- frequently is a unit within a Biology course, or is part of an Anatomy & Physiology course. A high school science course typically is about the scientific process and covers terminology, fundamental natural laws, and natural processes. In contrast, a Health course tends to have a personal or lifestyle focus -- information and choices about mental and physical health, nutrition, and s*xuality; fitness; first aid and accident prevention; etc. Edited July 12, 2017 by Lori D. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahW Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 The title pretty much says it all, if we do an intensive health/nutrition study with some anatomy, could that be a science credit? What would you call it? I'm talking at least an hour daily, five days a week, for 180 days. Are you including biochem in the nutrition part? Maybe also a bit on infectious diseases, again, from a chemical perspective? With a good inclusion of biochem, I think it could be "science." But then I wouldn't call is Health, but something more like Human Physiology and Processes. It's totally out-of-the-box. But I think it could be cool. But I don't know how colleges would respond to seeing that on the transcript rather than bio/chem/physics credits. Maybe half-credit of "regular" bio and half-credit "regular" chem, then this class could be seen as taking the human parts of bio and chem and putting them together to make the other credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganrussell Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 Okay, I will scrap that idea and is health as is - a health/physical education credit! 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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