This program examines the issue of health and wellness, including mental health, from a variety of perspectives including how biological, cultural, social, and environmental contexts influence the health and well-being of the individual. You will learn about issues of health ranging from biological, psychological, cultural and environmental and how factors such as genetics, personality, attitudes and abilities influence healthy social and emotional development throughout the life span. You will study the role of cultural and community processes in health and healing and examine how groups interact with their environment in healthy and unhealthy ways. This stream emphasizes health in the context of the development of the human being from the cellular and biosystems levels to the level of human health experience. Students focusing on this stream will explore basic biological and physiological processes and how these influence healthy social and emotional development throughout the life span.