Personal Awareness & Wellness

Course code CAAW 0634

Credit 4.0

Length 80.0 hours

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This course develops students’ concepts and vocabulary around health and wellness, which they can then apply to meeting their personal, educational, and employment goals.

This course is part of the Career Awareness program.

Prerequisites

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What you will learn

  • Common stressors and strategies for stress management
  • Inter-relationship of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health
  • Positive health behaviors and the prevention of injury illness and diseases
  • Strategies for reducing risks related to unhealthy behaviors and attitudes affecting physical health
  • Community resources for health maintenance and leisure, including legal, medical and recreational services
  • Decision making & setting goals in health management, nutrition, fitness, stress management, leisure building self esteem
  • Dealing with change
  • Personal and workplace values, learning styles, and disability awareness
  • Personal based and social based resources including family and friend relationships and spiritual supports
  • Respectful interactions in a diverse multi-cultural learning/work environment
  • Appropriate interpersonal skills for success with supervisors, co-workers, and customers

How to register

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

Course schedules

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CRN# Duration Delivery Location
70987 January 5, 2026
to June 11, 2026
Lecture VCC Downtown Campus See full schedule

Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and we acknowledge our privilege to be here.