Life Facts

This course is designed to be a quarter-long class that incorporates a variety of topics important to thrive as an adult woman including:  nutrition, physical health, mental and emotional wellbeing, relationships, and personal safety.  Students in the VECTOR Women’s group will participate in selecting, organizing, and completing projects and activities involving community service and home living. Examples of community service projects and activities many include food/clothing/book drives to support persons in need, activities to support military personnel and their families.  

Designed to help students become aware of their personalities, healthy life habits, positive psychology, alternative health strategies/exercises, appreciation for differences in others, and developing empathy.  Students take online personal assessments, participate in several community outings to experience healthy exercise and awareness activities, and participate in classroom discussions and activities designed to build awareness of themselves, classmates, and a healthy environment.

This course discusses and addresses elements of creating healthy committed relationships that may lead to engagement and marriage and the responsibilities of keep them healthy. Course content includes types of sexual orientation and the differentiation between facts and myths; engagement, the reasons why people become engaged and the responsibilities of engagement; the meaning of marriage and reasons for getting married, and the responsibilities of marriage; factors to consider before having children, the responsibilities of parenthood, and pro’s and con’s for raising children; definitions of separation/divorce and reasons why people end marriages; understanding feelings and changes associated with the death of a spouse.

This course addresses creating healthy dating relationships by teaching how to identify elements that attract one person to another; how to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate dating behaviors; how to recognize signs of trouble, possible reasons & approaches for ending a relationship; and steps to recovering from a relationship that has ended.  The curriculum also covers safety related to Internet dating based on the level of students in the class. Maintaining healthy relationships is also taught.