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HHD 1050 Holistic Health Approaches
Medical Spanish & Health Sciences Program
San Jose, Costa Rica
Dates: 9/20/25 - 12/13/25
HHD 1050 Holistic Health Approaches
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Veritas University
Location: San José, Costa Rica
Primary Subject Area: Health Sciences
Instruction in: English
Course Code: HHD 1050
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 100
Recommended Semester Credits: 4
Contact Hours: 60
Prerequisites: It is recommended, but not mandatorily required, that students come from a college-major field related to health.
DESCRIPTION
This course introduces basic concepts on holistic health, encompassing a general overview of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (T/CAM). Its main aim is to acquaint the student with current holistic health praxis, obtaining a general panorama about a wide range of current alternative/complementary practices. Class activities help students connect current lifestyles --where organic food, wellness, yoga, meditation, and a wide range of holistic health means are every day more common-- with their own current lifestyle, and, also, with their future health lifestyle and/or career.
Through this course each student will have a better overview of the holistic health perspective and the efficacy of some of their practices to open doors for a future deepening in these subjects and open an option for inter-professional practices. Also, students will explore and evaluate different holistic approaches and philosophies to improve personal health and wellbeing. Moreover, students will be able to build their own comparison with their general health concepts ?usually from the Western medicine (WM, also known as allopathic or conventional medicine). Some of the topics included are Homeopathy, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Acupuncture, Herbal and Nutritional Therapies, Ayurveda, Electromagnetic Therapy, Breathing, and Energy, among others.
Through this course each student will have a better overview of the holistic health perspective and the efficacy of some of their practices to open doors for a future deepening in these subjects and open an option for inter-professional practices. Also, students will explore and evaluate different holistic approaches and philosophies to improve personal health and wellbeing. Moreover, students will be able to build their own comparison with their general health concepts ?usually from the Western medicine (WM, also known as allopathic or conventional medicine). Some of the topics included are Homeopathy, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Acupuncture, Herbal and Nutritional Therapies, Ayurveda, Electromagnetic Therapy, Breathing, and Energy, among others.