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Healthy Humboldt
Thriving Communities— Healthy Futures
Explore how you can support your community’s wellness
Imagine exploring the biomechanics lab and human performance lab, engaging in mindfulness experiences and yoga, and utilizing the arts to promote healing. Whether caring for yourself or the community, nurturing both physical and mental wellbeing is crucial to a thriving society. This is your opportunity to serve and explore your new community and discover your career options in health and well-being!
Welcome to Healthy Humboldt, one of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Place-Based Learning Communities. As a first-year student with an interest in health and well-being, you can choose to be a part of this program to learn how to support a healthy and thriving community. You’ll foster relationships with students and faculty who are as passionate as you about healing both body and mind.
Healthy Humboldt is for first-year students who are interested in health-related pathways and are not already in a major-based Place-Based Learning Community. This PBLC is a great fit for students interested in health education, recreation, public health, and community-based programming.
At Humboldt,
we strive for societal and economic improvement
Humboldt Means Hands-on Learning
Dive in with field experiences, simulations, trips, and projects that bring your learning to life. Engage with approachable professors who guide you through practical activities beyond the classroom.
Get the Classes that Count
Immerse yourself in courses that not only fulfill requirements for any major but also spark your passion for social change.
Get Support from Day One
From the day you arrive at Humboldt, you'll have a support network that includes professors, peer mentors, staff, and experienced professionals. Grow academically and personally with the backing of a caring and invested community.
The Specialized Experiences that Make up Healthy Humboldt
Students in Healthy Humboldt focus on ways that everyone can support a healthy and thriving community while also addressing issues such as accessibility, equity, inclusion.
In Healthy Humboldt, you’ll begin the semester exploring the resources that our campus has to offer including places like the Human Performance and Concussion labs. You’ll also participate in hands-on activities with faculty and staff learning how art and health intersect and how health pathways appear in across several disciplines and majors.
Throughout the semester, you’ll learn how health is connected to the environment, economics, and so many other aspects of our world. Address the structural and systemic forces that shape human lives and wellness alongside your peers as part of Healthy Humboldt!
Guided Enrollment
As part of guided enrollment, PBLC students have the opportunity to enroll into a deliberate selection of courses based on their PBLC. Guided Enrollment alleviates the pressure of finding spaces in courses and will set students on the best path to graduation.
Fall Courses for Healthy Humboldt
All students in Healthy Humboldt will have the opportunity to enroll in:
HED 100 (Sound Mind Sound Body)
CHEM 109, PSYCH 100, or PHIL 100 (General Chemistry, Psychology of Critical Thinking, or Logic)
MATH (depends on preparedness)
NAS 107, ENGL 102, or ENGL 104 (Introduction to California Indian Peoples and Places or Composition and Rhetoric)
These courses are selected in collaboration with the Healthy Humboldt faculty team and are relevant to Healthy Humboldt specific programming.
Spring Courses for Healthy Humboldt
All students in Healthy Humboldt will have the opportunity to enroll in:
- COMM 100 (Fundamentals of Speech Communication)
- PSYC 100 (Psychology of Critical Thinking)
Students will work with their advisor to fill out the rest of their spring schedule.