From the Curriculum Director
Beginning with their first phone calls to admissions and continuing throughout their CCNH careers, we listen to our students. As more of them enter with backgrounds in the healing arts, we have noticed a rise in requests for additional courses combining the hard sciences with holistic nutrition and natural health when appropriate. In keeping with our commitment to education, described below are three currently available science electives that may have been overlooked, plus a new elective that will be ready later this year.
BSC 651 General Physiology offers an in-depth study of the whole human body with much greater attention to detail than our required anatomy and physiology course.
Is human behavior instinctive, conscious, or both? CC 401 Biological Psychology, explores the brain’s role in determining instinctive human behavior. For example, the act of falling in love is examined from the perspective of the chemicals secreted by the brain; the connections between neurotransmitters and the emotions; and the evolutionary justifications for attraction.
How the Immune System Works, by Lauren Sompayrac, PhD, is the text for NH 540, the course of the same name. Using a lecture format, the author presents a humorous, yet informative, introduction to the essential principles of the immune system.
NU 575 Nutrition and Human Metabolism, will be an advanced course that details the processes following the consumption of foods. Students will learn how macronutrients and micronutrients affect the body, beginning at the cellular level.
For more information on these courses, contact your faculty advisor.
Krista Leamon
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