Ian Lucas Essays (863 words) - DraftNoah Cronbaugh,

Ian Lucas 5/01/17 HLT 110 Courtney Dowell FINAL REFLECTION ESSAY At first the only reason I took this class was because it was what I needed to take for my degree. My girlfriend Rachel took this class with me because we wanted to take at least one class together because even though we went to same high school we never took a class together before. I thought I would dread every Tuesday and Thursday, waking up at 7 AM getting ready for my 8 AM class, carpool with Rachel and listen to the instructor lecture to us about our health but I turned out to be wrong. Courtney Dowell you are one of my favorite professors I have had the privilege of being a student of, and I really hope that you work full-time in the near future because you really deserve it. You have inspired my girlfriend Rachel and I in what you teach and you're the only class that I think I will ever enjoy taking early in the morning. Your passion speaks great volume, and the way you make everyone's input feel important without skipping a beat truly speaks on what kind of person you are, y ou are definitely meant to be a college professor. With that being said I have enjoyed many of our discussions, mini papers, and assessments that we did during the semester. My favorite health topic that we discussed was on the different levels of stress that we talked about around the first couple of weeks. It was something I related to because I have anger issues that I control to the best of my ability and I use some of the coping methods that we learned as well. I also very much enjoyed talking about healthy and unhealthy relationships, it was very interesting to see Jack debate with this other girl for a good five minutes on why women should leave instead of staying in the abusive relationship. I honestly thought this was going to be the most boring class of all time, but it instead was just bunch of people who are extremely different from one another that eventually got to love each other by the end of the year. I knew this was going to be a class where you had to do your work to pass, and study a little hard for your test to p ass but I didn't know that I would enjoy every second of it. I will miss everything about this class, I will apply everything I learned from stress management, ways on saving the environment, ways of preventing of STI's, improving my spiritual health, checking the food I'm eating, and setting goals for myself. A project that I think you should consider is have the class document they're journey on setting healthy goals for themselves and them going through with it, and have it be a 2-3 page paper. It would also be cool if you give the students an option to present their journey of achieving their set goals because it will not only make the students feel good about themselves but it will make the students live a healthier lifestyle. I believe the "Concepts of Personal and Community Health" should be a general education course because it is something that I feel everyone has to know in their life. This course goes more in depth in health than any of our health classes in high school, middle school, or elementary school. College students need to know the importance of checking our nutrition, taking our wellness assessment and setting goals to improve in certain areas of their life. Taking this class most definitely has opened my eyes to how I'm living my life, it was a huge wake up call, it s omething that every college students deserves to know, how to live our life healthy, and productively. To summarize the entire semester it started off with an awkward forced hello to every classmate saying hello to everyone with a huge smile when walking into class. To being sleepy all through the morning, to being full energy and filled with questions that we so desperately wanted to ask Professor Dowell. I think it all changed because of the passion we