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Apr 19, 2024
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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Health & Wellness Promotion, B.S.
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The Health and Wellness Promotion major allows students to combine their passion for providing health services with community outreach. Graduates with this degree will be able to analyze a community’s health, develop a plan of action to combat health and wellness issues, and then strategically implement their vision. The long-term planning skills students learn and utilize as an undergrad can be used to assist clients in leading happy and healthy lives.
Completing this degree program will enable students to:
- Demonstrate competence in assessing needs, planning, implementing, managing and evaluating health promotion programs.
- Understand and demonstrate professional ethics and social responsibility as it relates to the practice of health promotion.
- Communicate effectively and professionally in verbal, nonverbal, and written formats.
- Use critical thinking skills to solve problems associated with assessing needs, implementing, managing and evaluating health promotion programs.
- Engage in career development activities to prepare for job success or graduate school entrance.
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Courses required for the major:
Electives
Students are required to take a minimum of eight (8) credits in Health and Wellness Promotion electives. Choose from the following:
Recommended Minors:
- Biology
- Business Administration
- Exercise Science
- Integrative Aging
- Integrative Health Science
- Psychology
- Public Health
Public Health Track
The Health and Wellness Promotion major/Public Health Track allows students to combine their passion for improving the lives of others through health with community outreach. Through a combination of required and elective courses, as well as experiential learning opportunities in diverse settings, students will have the knowledge and skills needed for a variety of entry-level positions in Public Health and have the required courses needed to apply to Public Health related graduate degree programs.
Completing this degree program will enable students to:
- Identify and apply professional ethics and social responsibility as it relates to public health activities and professional standards.
- Communicate effectively and professionally in verbal, nonverbal, and written format.
- Be familiar and apply major concepts and theories associated with public health related practices.
- Use critical thinking skills to solve problems associated with administering, developing and evaluating public health programs.
- Engage in career development activities to prepare for job success or graduate school entrance.
Credits: 26-30
Public Health courses required for the major:
Public Health Electives
Students are required to take a minimum of eight (8) credits in Health and Wellness Promotion electives. Choose from the following:
Online Electives
- HA 205 – American Healthcare Systems (online) (3 cr)
- SW 101 - Introduction to the Profession of Social Work (online or on campus) (3 cr)
- SW 210 - Quantitative Methods & Data Analysis in Social Science Research (online or on campus) (3 cr)
Other courses by permission.
Note:
A student must have a 2.75 in the major to be granted an internship opportunity and/or permission from the faculty advisor and the department chair. Double Major Option:
Fitness Specialist
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