Scheduling
All courses and proseminars are held on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays. All courses are one-unit courses, 15 class-time hours. Each course is divided into two 1-day sessions, each session scheduled two weeks apart on two Saturdays OR on two Sundays. Each of the two 1-day sessions is 7.5 hours, with a scheduled one-hour break: 09:00-12:30, 13:30-17:30. Other breaks are at the discretion of faculty.
Scheduling coursework is flexible. Students may take any number of units, ranging from six to 12 per trimester. We recommend that courses be taken in the suggested sequence, although part time students make take courses in a sequence convenient to their own busy work schedules; some courses, however, require prerequisites, as shown below. This flexibility means that part time students can (1) spread out their course schedule and arrange it in a more evenly distributed manner, rather than taking courses in concentrated clumps as would be required if following the recommended sequence, (2) free up specific Saturdays or Sundays for other important commitments, (3) take a variable number of courses per trimester based on professional workload or other considerations, e.g., switch from six units in a trimester to nine in the next, and (4) sign up for courses at any time during an ongoing trimester.
Note that students may miss up to a full day of attendance in each course, which is then made up by listening to the recording of the course time missed; see “Grades” for a full description of attendance requirements.
Course Prerequisites
All students are required to take Breathing Science 301 and Behavioral Physiology 302 before taking other courses. Part time students who are NOT taking courses in the recommended sequence, need to take special note that the following
courses have additional prerequisites as indicated:
Physiology
106 Cardiac and Pulmonary Diseases: 101, 102
108 Sleep Physiology and Breathing: 107
Measurement
201 Data Collection & Analysis: 303, 401
202 Instrumentation and Measurement: 101
Psychology
305 Stress Psychophysiology: 107
307 Behavior Therapy: 303
Interventions
402 Educational Capnography: 105
403 EMG, Dysponesis, & Breathing: 104, 401
404 Breathing Habit Assessment: 303
405 Breathing Habit Modification: 307, 401
406 Heart Rate Variability and Breathing: 102, 401
Business
502 The Marketing Plan: 501
Proseminars and Practicums
601 in parallel with 701: 404
602 in parallel with 702: 405
603 in parallel with 703: 501, 502
