Description: The course provides information on basic nutrition and wellness concepts in relation to the individual and family throughout life and introduction to the role of nutrition in health focusing on essential nutrients, factors that affect eating habits, nutrition advertising, nutrition and disease and establishing a healthy lifestyle. Furthermore, study fundamental aspects of the subject, such as essentials of a diet, food intake and control, digestion and absorption, macronutrients, micronutrients, dietary requirements and nutrition in health and disease.


Description: This course will provide an introduction to the field of Health care psychology which is concerned about the relationship between psychological factors including behavioral, cognitive, psychosocial, and physiological, that influence individual responses to health and illness. The course will address the following questions how psychology can be applied to health, illness and healthcare ? how interventions can be used to improve outcomes and the experience of healthcare?, Also, the course will focus on health-related behaviors such as smoking and drug use, health beliefs as possible predictors of health-related behaviors, also  stress is seen as an interaction between the person and their environment, and health professional’s beliefs about the symptoms, the illness or the patient can have important implications.


Description: Economics is the study of how individuals and societies choose to use the scarce resources that nature and previous generations have provided. The key word in this definition is choose. Economics is a behavioral, or social, science. In large measure, it is the study of how people make choices. The choices that people make, when added up, translate into societal choices.