Course Description
This course is designed to teach undergraduate students skills for developing resilience to manage commonly experienced stressors and difficulties in college. Resilience is the ability to adapt to difficult or challenging life experiences through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands. Lectures, readings, discussion, and experiential learning exercises will be used to assist students in developing a personalized set of strategies and skills to optimize academic and social experiences while at NC State University and beyond. This course is also designed to teach and apply the principles of lifetime physical fitness utilizing the five major components of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. A variety of health and wellness issues will be addressed. The components of fitness will be met through in class and asynchronous online workouts. Refer to the online schedule of classes for specific fitness activities for the course.
GEP
Health/Exercise Studies
Spring 2026
Instructors
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
January 12, 2026
Classes End:
April 28, 2026
Location:
01206 Carmichael Gym
Class Days:
M W
Class Start Time:
1:55pm
Class End Time:
2:45pm
Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
2.00
Restrictions:
R: Freshman/ New Freshmen Only