Health

Wenatchee Valley College offers the following courses:

Exercise Science
- The WVC Exercise Science Department is committed to offering comprehensive, progressive and inclusive courses that promote and utilize foundational scientific principles around lifelong health and wellness. The department offers a wide variety of lecture and activity courses designed to encourage the educational and holistic development of the student.
Health
- Courses that prepare students going into any of the WVC Allied Health programs.
Nutrition

- Understand the relation between food and nutrition to metabolism, growth, and physical and cognitive function. This includes the variety of foods that provide macronutrients, and understanding the effect of key nutrients on the basic physiology of the human body.
- Be able to communicate a basic knowledge of vocabulary of terms used to discuss nutrition, interrelationship between energy metabolism and weight management/obesity, the nutritional contributions of various foods, the nutritional requirements at various life stages, and principles of food safety.
- Be able to describe the relationship between cultural and body image habits related to health and fitness, analyze a dietary record for basic nutritional adequacy, interpret information on food labels, and explain the origin and use of the Dietary Reference Intakes as established by the National Academy of Sciences.