Health Promotion - Fitness Management
The Health Promotion major is designed to offer a distinctive opportunity for you to influence the health, lifestyle and productivity of individuals and organizations. It prepares you to plan, implement and evaluate health promotion programs and encourage you to become committed to the vision of improving the health and well-being of society.
Wellness Management focuses on health promotion within communities, organizations and worksites. Graduates may assume such positions as wellness director, specialist or planner in the worksite/community environment.
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Courses and Requirements
Departmental Courses in the Core
- Personal and Community Health
- Fitness and Well-Being
- Lifetime Fitness and Wellness
Prequesite Courses
- General Biology I
- Lifetime Fitness and Wellness
- General Psychology (Wellness Management Concentration only)
Courses Required of all Majors
- Marketing
- Public Relations Principles
- Personal and Community Health
- Wellness/Physical Fitness Assessment
- Principles and Foundations of Health Promotions
- Worksite Health Promotion
- Internship
- Health Promotion Practicum: Mind, Body, Spirit
- Senior Seminar
Fitness Management Concentration
- Nutrition for Everyday Life OR
- Nutrition
- Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology
- First Aid & Safety Respond to Emergencies OR
- Care & Prevention of Athletic Injuries
- Leadership Skills for Conditioning/Strength
- Training Instruction
- Kinesiology
- Exercise Physiology
2 credits from
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- Psychology and Health
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
Additional Suggested Fitness Management Electives
- Microbiology
- Introduction to Sport Management
- Facilities and Event Management
- Fundamentals of Organic Biochemistry
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Special Topics
- Bioethics
- Human Development
- Aging in Contemporary America
Free Electives
- Tennis and Volleyball
- Tennis and Bowling
- Volleyball and Badminton
- Bowling and Badminton
- Volleyball and Golf
- Bowling and Golf
- Physical Fitness
- Lifetime Jogging and Fitness
- Flag Football and Basketball
- Bicycling and Bowling
- Aerobic Exercise
- History and Principles of Physical Education
- Theories & Techniques of Teaching Team Sports
- Theories & Techniques of Teaching Individual Sports
- Concepts in Movement Education
- Sports and Media
- Traffic Safety and Accident Prevention
- Driver Education I
- Driver Education II
- Organization & Administration of PE
- Methods of Conducting Intramurals
- Basketball Skills and Coaching
- Baseball Skills and Coaching
- Theory & Techniques of Coaching
- Interscholastic Athletics
- Techniques of Officiating
- Adapted Physical Education
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- Special Topics
For detailed course descriptions, please see the current catalog HERE.