AHS 100Foundations of a Healthy Lifestyle
- Faculty
- Health
- Last listed
- Spring 2022
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2022 and last ran in Winter 2022. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- W20
- W21
- W22
Ran in 3 terms, Winter 2020 to Winter 2022.
This course will introduce the student to the basics of health, wellness and disease, with an emphasis on assessing and evaluating the student's own lifestyle and health risk, and committing to a plan to begin or maintain a healthy lifestyle across the life course.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Not open to students in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, and Kinesiology
In today’s calendar
- HEALTH 100 lists it as an antirequisite
Reviewed on UW Flow
94% liked it89% easy78% useful
From 16 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.
Excellent course, I spent about 1-2 hours a week on it and finished with a high grade. You were required to buy an e-textbook with embedded quizzes in it, but the quizzes are so easy, it's practically common sense. No final. I took this course in Winter 2021, so it might've changed(?).
May 2022 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this
Easiest course ever!
Jan 2018 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this
This course was very interesting, particularly for these with an interest in the medical field. The course is pretty content heavy, however, it is manageable considering that each of the tests are non-cumulative. There are four tests, each with 20 MC and 20 marks in long answers. The MC questions were always very tricky, but the long answers were always very straight forward. There were five in-class unanounced "response papers," which were very easy so long that you applied the concepts taight in-class. There were also two papers, one which was two pages and the other three pages. This is not exactly my idea of a "bird" course. Nonetheless, it is very possible to attain above a 90% if you…
May 2017 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this
A very nice course personally, the course is well structured and provides good info on health. 10/10
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
40 posts and comments in 38 threads mention AHS 100, January 2016 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Spring 2022
Easiest course offered by UW? 13 points, 20 comments
u/Longjumping_Try_7516: “AHS100”
Winter 2022
see you all on february 7th 88 points, 10 comments
u/Dimtar_: “… Jerome’s) SOC 101 (Conrad Grebel) ECE 222 ECE 250 ECE 350 ECE 402 ECE 459 ECE 498B ME 400B MTE 400B ENVS 178 (Lectures) GEOG/PLAN 281 AHS 100 GERON 310 HLTH 310 KIN 310 GERON 352 HLTH 352 KIN 352 REC 362 SOC 352 GSJ 380 HLTH 380 HLTH 102 HLTH 344 HLTH 370 HLTH 430 KIN 146 KIN …”
Soc 101, Hlth 101 or any other 100 course thats online and bird 11 points, 15 comments
“Taken cs100, hrm 200, fr 151, clas 104, econ 101, In my 4b, have an elective spot, want a walk in the park while I focus on finalizing MCAT studies and degree required courses”
u/simrants: “ahs 100”
Fall 2021
AHS 100 (in-person) 8 points, 2 comments
u/userwithaphone: “1) What’s the grade breakdown for this course? 2) How heavy is the workload? 4) What’s its level of difficulty (for someone who is not too familiar with Bio/health concepts)? 3) Is there a required textbook? -Thanks”
u/HappyNaru106: “it's relatively easy. You can use UW flow to inform yourself on courses. https://uwflow.com/course/ahs100”
[deleted by user] 0 points, 13 comments
u/PulisicFanClub: “REC 101 CLAS 104 CLAS 100 AHS 100”
Spring 2021
How are INTST 101, AHS 100 and PLAN 100 as a CSE? 3 points, 5 comments
Courses I can get 90%+ in gpa boosters 4 points, 5 comments
“Anyone know of courses it’s easy to get 90 in? I’m looking to boost my gpa. I’ve taken rec 280, hist 105, msci 211. I wanted to take music 140 but it’s full. …”
u/RacheltheGreat7: “AHS 100 its quizzes from the Pearson online textbook each week, 4-5 writing assignments, and a self evaluation. You can do the quizzes all in the first week and just use the trial for the book so you don't have to pay.”
Winter 2021
Switching to AHS 100? 3 points, 2 comments
u/nkzinger: “Thinking about switching out of Fine 130 and into AHS 100... anyone know the syllabus breakdown/ how easy is the course? Thanks!”
Looking for one last (easier) course... 1 point, 9 comments
“Right now I'm in CLAS 104 and PHIL 145 as my electives and I'm looking for my last (easy) course to round out my courses. I took ECON 101 and CLAS 100 last sem. …”
u/conorathrowaway: “Ahs 100. It’s 12 untimed quizzes (10 multiple choice questions) and 5 short writing assignments. That’s it. I’m already done 8 of the 12 quizzes and plan on having all the work done for this course by the weekend. …”
Anyone took AHS 100 since the pandemic? 2 points, 0 comments
u/cyrus_smith_irl: “Has anybody taken AHS 100 since the pandemic moved it online? And if so, was it easy? (My last post asking this was removed but I didn't get any message about it so I'm posting again. if a mod removed this can you lmk why?)”
AHS 100 online ? 1 point, 0 comments
Fall 2020
AHS 100 2 points, 1 comment
u/Nice_Raccoon_4753: “How was ahs 100? is the textbook required?”
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 2021–22Its last calendar entry, on uwloo
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them