1979_12 The Daily Collegian December 1979

              What   Is
Holistic Health?
VVe recognize the importance of defining and differ¬
entiating medical care and health care. Therefore, we
distinguish holistic health as distinct from and yet com¬
plementary to the practice of medicine in the following
1. Holistic Health practices treat the whole person
rather than an isolated symptom or disease. The inter¬
action of the body (biochemical), mind (psychological),
and spirit (cultural/world view) of the person is taken
into account and understood in relationship to all the
environmental influences. Mniy scientists today believe
that much illness is the result of our life style. Holistic
health practitioners encourage appropriate change in
the stressful conditions in a person's life style. This
non-medical treatment is preventive in nature and can
be curative.
2. With the understanding that the human being has
extraordinary cellular intelligence and organization,
holistic health practices seek to catalyze a person's in¬
herent healing processes Some symptoms don't have
to be controlled, suppressed, or interfered with as they
are the body's health defense process. Holistic health
practices can be used to help build the person's defense
system, while medical practices can be used when the
defenses break down.
3. Holistic health practices encourage the person to
take responsibility for their own health rather than giv¬
ing it up to the practitioner. Holistic health recognizes
tjje autonomy of txh person. We are not the innocent
victim of biologicarprocesses or random attacks by
germs or viruses. Holistic health views each person as a
capable and self-responsible being with considerable
command over his/her interactions in the world. A hol¬
istic health practitioner can assist a person in achieving
a healthier state, but the individual must take the re¬
sponsibility for him/herself. This shift of responsibility
will make health care and medical care more efficient
because it encourages people to take a more active role
in their own health.
4. Holistic Health practices strive to individualize
the way each person is unique in this world white medi¬
cal practice diagnoses a person's specific disease. A hol¬
istic health practitioner tries to individualize treatment
by focusing on the factors in a person's life style that
made him/her susceptible to dis-ease. The disease itself
is viewed as a message of imbalance, and offers guidance
in achieving homeostasis. With this orientation, practi¬
tioners strive to strengthen the person's inherent bodily
defenses and to lessen or eliminate any environmental
stresses. In complement, medical practice seeks to fit a
person into a generalized disease and offers appropriate
medical treatment for this disease. Thus, health care
and medical care can work together and can make the
other more efficient.
5. People do not have to be "sick" to involve them¬
selves in holistic health practices. Disease prevention is
believed to lie. more in basic life style change than in the
annual physical. The annual medical physical does not
always discover potential health problems nor identify
specific stresses in a person's life. Holistic health prac¬
tices encourage people to monitor daily stresses that
could predispose them to illness, and in so doing, the
methods are preventive in nature. •
This article has been compiled by the Holistic
Health Organizing Committee.
ETHNIC STUDIES
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
ETHNIC STUDIES PROGRAM
SCHEDULE OF COURSES -- SPRINC 1980
ETHNIC STUDIES
ETH S 002
Eth Expression
1310-1400 MWF
SS 112
ARMENIA!*
STUDIES
"ETH S 130T    Arm World Hagopian
1630-2200 F
AH 209
0800-1730 S
AH 209
ETH S 130T
David of Sassoun
1910-2000 T
AH 209
ETH S 130T
Arm Architecture
1310-1400 MWF
LS169
ARM001B
Elem Armenian
1410-1500 MTWF
EDP215
HIST 109T
Modern Arm Hist
1910-2200 W
SS103
•This course
meets Friday March 21 and Saturday March 22, 1980.
BLACK STUDIES:
BL S 022
Black Dialect
1210-1300 MWF
AH 209
BL S 025
Black Literature
0810-0900MWF
AH 209
BL S 027
The Black Image
0810-0925 TTH
AH 209
BL S 038
Ethnic Sociology
1110-1200 MWF
AH 209
BLS042
Ethnic Psych
1010-1100 MWF
AH 209
BL'S 056
The Black Family
1110-1225 TTH
AH 209
BLS135
Am Black Ghettoes
0910-I000MWF
AH 209
8LS135
Am Black Ghettoes
1910-2200 W
AH 209
BL S 130T
Black Music
1310-1400 MWF
AH 209
BLS144
Race Relations
1910-2200 M
AH 209
BLS146
Law and Blk Commun
1910-2200 TH
AH 209
BLS190
Independ Study
ARR
NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES:
NAS050
Cont Life Nat Am
0945-1100 TTH
AH 209
NAS100
Am Ind Relig
1245-1400 TTH
AH 209
Nas 103
Ind of Calif
0810-900 MWF
LS169
NAS190
Independ Study
ARR
For additional information please contact:    '
Ethnic Studies Program
San Ramon 5, Room 241
Tele: (209)487-2832
(YOU CAN HAVE A MINOR IN ETHNIC STUDIES, BLACK STUDIES OR
ARMJENIAN)
by Dr. Robert Mikell
First, let me take this opportunity to
thank you for your continued support of
the Ethnic Studjes Program. The future
of Ethnic Studies, to a large extent, will
depend upon your continued support and
cooperation. As you may be aware, we
are currently in'the process of revitaliz¬
ing the Ethnic Studies Program through
a number of innovative approaches to
education.
These innovative approaches include the
implementation of the following:
1. Internship Program
Objective: Placement of student at
community agencies while earning
2. Multi-cultural Theatre Croup
Objective:    Production    of    major
ethnic stage performances.
3. Black Student Business Club
Objective: Acquaint /students with
the business world through study
groups, field trips, interships.
4. Student    Organizations     liaison
office
Objective: To establish a centralized
location for student organizations
(e.g., mailing, meetings, advising,
contacting, etc)
5     Saturday classes
Objective: To offer new courses of
special   interest   through   regular
"add" (no fee required when added
to regular unit load).
6.    Lecture series (Fall, 1980)
Objective:   To  feature   prominent
ethnic personalities in a series of college
union   lecture   settings.   Will   be
offered for credit.
Again, I would like to impress upon you
the importanct of your support of the
Ethnic Studies Program. I, therefore,
encourage each of you to enroll in one
or more course(s) under our Program.
You will note that many of our courses
amy be used to satisfy the requirement
for General Education, major^. and
minors. I especially encourage you to
consider declaring a minor within our
Program.
If you are interested in any of the pro¬
grams we have planned or if you have
some ideas you would like to share with
us, please contact me at the Ethnic
Studies Office, San Ramon 5, Room 241
or call 487-2832, 487-2833.
MmmM
Children Are
The Reward Of Life
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