2009–2010 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Health and Wellness
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Associate Professors Garbe (Chair), Ray; Assistant Professors Lanou, Wingert; Lecturers Cornish, DeWeese, Schrader, Torbett, Wolfe
The Department of Health and Wellness offers diverse and flexible programs designed to help students live healthier and more balanced and meaningful lives. Students may choose to major or minor in Health and Wellness Promotion and pursue careers in worksite wellness, hospital-based wellness programs, community health centers, retirement and nursing home wellness programs, commercial and not for-profit health, fitness, and recreation centers, and other related areas. Students who receive a B.S. with a major in Health and Wellness Promotion may choose to pursue graduate and/or professional studies in Health Promotion, Exercise Physiology, Nutrition, Health Education, Gerontology, Public Health, Medicine and other health-related professional programs. Students interested in graduate school should be aware of additional course work required for admission to these programs that may not be required for the Health and Wellness Promotion major. Pre-medicine students may choose any major and should contact the Pre-Health Professions Program Coordinator for additional information.
The Health and Wellness Department also offers minors in Health and Wellness Promotion, Dance and Sports Medicine, and offers a Pre-Health Professions Program. The minor in Dance provides students the opportunity to acquire and refine the technical skills necessary to realize the broadest possible range of movement options, develop their own capacity for expression through dance, understand the connections among the various fields of study involved with dance production, acquire experience as teachers, performers and choreographers and prepare for advanced study in Dance and other related arts. The minor in Sports Medicine places an emphasis on the treatment and prevention of athletic and movement-related injuries. In addition, the Sports Medicine minor provides background for graduate study in Athletic Training, Physical Therapy, and other health sciences. The Pre-Health Professions Program provides numerous opportunities for students to learn more about the broad array of health care career options and assists them in successfully preparing for graduate or professional program admissions.
Declaration of Major in Health and Wellness Promotion
Students are prepared, supported, and expected to serve as healthy lifestyle role models. Declaring a major in Health and Wellness Promotion requires the student to complete a health risk appraisal and a battery of assessments to establish baseline measures related to personal health and wellness. Advisors serve as lifestyle coaches and use these collected data to work with students to develop reasonable personal health and wellness plans to be followed during their course of study (wellness plans are adjusted for age and special needs). Before declaring a major, students must satisfy the LANG 120 requirement.
Elective Skill Development Options
Only four semester hours of fitness development and/or elective skills courses can be used toward the minimum number of hours required for a degree. Fitness development options include all HW courses and 100-level DAN courses.
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