This is an introduction to the field of health psychology and will examine psychological factors that influence physical health and illness. Topics that will be explored are stress management, mind-body issues, health promotion and health compromising behaviours, coping with critical and chronic illness, psychoimmunology, and social factors in health and illness.

This course provides the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide for the basic health, safety and nutritional needs of young children. Requirements for healthy and safe early childhood environments will be identified. The nutritional needs of young children will be established and appropriate menu planning strategies explored. Developmentally appropriate practices and experiences for establishing healthful attitudes in young children are also included.

Health, safety, and wellness is a dynamic ever changing field in the workplace. This course will examine occupational health and safety programs in the workplace and an understanding of health and safety issues and applicable legislation. Topics include hazard awareness, psychosocial aspects, workplace violence and harassment, training, incident management, and workplace wellness.

Students are introduced to hematological procedures and will learn to identify normal blood parameters and cells. A review of the CBC in the lab and lecture will improve the student's ability to perform hematological tests. The student will learn to evaluate the erythron, leukon and hemostatis by recognizing and interpreting abnormal results and identifying possible causes of those results. Hemopoietic neoplasia is discussed. Case studies will be used extensively in presentation of course material.

Psychology is a relatively young science but its history is varied, intriguing, and extends well beyond the first psychologists. From its roots in early mythology, religion, Greek and Enlightenment philosophy, empiricism and evolution, to modern Psychodynamics, Humanism, Behaviourism, the Cognitive revolution, and neuroscience, we examine the trends, competing theoretical perspectives, and socio-political influences on the current discipline of psychology.

Historical background to emergent political and economic/industrial issues in the Canadian North, including the Peace River region of Alberta. Topics include: the issue of northernness, history of Native people in the North, exploration and discovery, fur trade and missionaries, industrial development and settlement, issues of control today.

Canadian women as affected by, and as contributing to the major social changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In this course, students will combine academic theory with practice by way of a practicum in an instructor-approved hospitality and tourism business. This is an unpaid practicum in which students are monitored by NWP personnel and evaluated by employer(s) and instructor. Students will report on products, services, roles, responsibilities, policies, procedures, and processes in their workplace, as well as reflect on their experience in their work integrated learning. Shift hours of work may be involved in the practicum.

In this course, you will study the systems that make up the human body and discuss the milestones of growth and development across a lifetime. You will read about and discuss the most common of the chronic illnesses that you may encounter, and you will learn how to provide safe care based on evidence-informed practices according to the clients’ diagnoses, needs, and care plans. The information learned in this course will provide you with care strategies to support the client and the client’s family through the process of a client’s dying and death.

Through lectures and media presentations, students will trace the conduct of war in the most deadly century in human history, the Twentieth. Interwoven with this topic will be special studies of military culture, the effects of war on societies, the practice of industrialized warfare, nuclear strategy and low-intensity conflict in the post-nuclear era.

Students will be introduced to one of humanity's least attractive but most persistent and consequential activities. Through lectures and media presentations, the class will trace the conduct of war from ancient times to the end of the 19th Century. Interwoven with these topics will be special studies of military culture, the effects of war on societies, the rise of revolutionary warfare, and industrialized warfare in the colonial era.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with human development across the school years.

This course is a study of the sequential changes in physical growth and motor development with emphasis on individual differences.

Introductory course in human physiology, part I. Students will study the function and regulation of the human body and the complexities and interactions of cells, tissues, major organs and systems. Part I covers: the physiology of the cell; muscle and sensory physiology; peripheral and central nervous systems; blood and body defense mechanisms; and the cardiovascular system.

Introductory course in human physiology, part II. Students will study the function and regulation of the human body and the complexities and interactions of cells, tissues, major organs and systems. Part II covers: hormonal control mechanisms; physiology of the gastrointestinal, respiratory, reproductive, and urinary systems.

This course provides an overview of the human resource function in contemporary business. Specifically, the topics covered include: the legal aspects of HR, HR planning, job analysis and design, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee relations, and health and safety.

An inquiry into ideas and behaviour of sexuality, and their personal, cultural, and societal implications.

The topic covered in this course will be hydraulic brake systems including drum and disc brakes, brake boosters, parking brakes as well as electric brakes. The servicing of these systems will also be covered.

Basic principles of hydraulics, hydraulic oil, contamination control principles, basic systems and components are examined in this course. As well, the students are introduced to ISO schematics and symbology.

Introduction to image processing and visual perception. The course will explore topics such as: data representation and formats; image enhancement and restoration; edge detection; segmentation and texture; correlation and registration. These fundamentals will then be applied to the analysis of images by using pattern recognition; feature extraction and detection; object tracking, decision theory; classification rules.