Health Department
The Health department at MAA is geared towards building healthy lifestyles for students that fosters community, creativity, and critical thinking. The health departments helps to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors; allowing students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices.
Lastly it includes a variety of topics such as personal health, healthy relationships, consumer health, sexuality education, mental and emotional health, injury prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention and control of disease, and substance use and abuse.
B.S- Health Education- Lehman College
MS.- Literacy Education 5- 12th Grade
*About Lehman College: www.lehman.cuny.edu
Lehman College has entered a new era in its history as an institution of higher education. Already known for its outstanding faculty, dedicated staff, superb library, art gallery, theaters, speech and hearing clinic, and athletic facilities, the College will now build a new state of the art, environmentally “green” science facility that will invigorate faculty and student research as well as prepare Lehman students for science-based careers.
Supported by the University’s expanding technological resources, the College will promote creative teaching strategies, greater access to courses through online learning, off campus access to library resources and enhanced student services. The new Multi-Media center will stimulate technological innovation in all areas of communications and the arts for both the College and the region.
Lehman has always been a commuter campus that prides itself on its diversity and commitment to multicultural understanding. Now, the College looks forward to providing a residential experience to attract a wider range of students and lead to the development of new learning communities to enhance student success.
Lehman College will prepare students to live and work in the global community through new interdisciplinary programs, such as environmental studies and international business, along with
study abroad and experiential learning opportunities. The College’s geographic information systems and numerous partnerships with schools, hospitals, social service and governmental agencies, small businesses, major corporations, and cultural and scientific institutions will contribute to the economic development of the region. Service learning and internship opportunities will be further developed to foster the engaged citizenship and commitment to public service embodied in its namesake, Herbert H. Lehman.
Recognized for small classes, close interaction between students and faculty, a successful Teacher Academy and Honors College, and a caring and supportive environment, Lehman College will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2018 as the college of choice in the region, committed to preparing students for graduate studies, professional careers, and lifelong learning.
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