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Nov 27, 2024
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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Wellness, Health Promotion and Injury Prevention, B.S.
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Requirements for the B.S. degree with a major in wellness, health promotion, and injury prevention
Students seeking the Bachelor of Science degree in Wellness, Health Promotion, and Injury Prevention must complete 128 credits, including the following requirements: 1. Meet the university general education requirements
(See Undergraduate degree requirements). Note that several courses under requirement number four satisfy both general education requirements, and wellness, health promotion, and injury prevention degree requirements. See courses marked with an “*”. 2. Complete the university U.S. diversity requirement.
For majors in wellness, health promotion, and injury prevention, this requirement is satisfied by completing the core curriculum course, HS 302 . 3. Complete the wellness, health promotion, and injury prevention core curriculum credits
4. Complete courses that complement the core curriculum, as follows
Notes
(*Courses that also satisfy the university general education requirement)
The WHP program enforces both prerequisites and course sequencing. Students must follow the curriculum checklist available on the WHP website.
5. Complete the required credit hours of program elective work for one of the chosen focus specialization areas below
a. Additional major in psychology focus
Students intending to earn a psychology major must consult with a Department of Psychology faculty adviser and complete the required 44 credits for the psychology major as detailed below. Note that 4 credits of psychology can be satisfied with as the general education knowledge applications course (see Pre-WHP above); and 12 additional credits of psychology courses are satisfied in the WHP core curriculum, (See requirement number four above). Therefore, in this focus students must complete a minimum of an additional 28 credit hours of psychology. Students must declare the additional major in psychology by completing an additional major form, and must attain a minimum GPA of 2.00 in all psychology courses.
Plus one course from each of the following groups
Plus 8 elective hours of psychology credits at any level, except PSY 399
b. General health promotion focus
Plus a minimum of 4 hours from
Plus 4 hours from one of the following groups
3. Personality and individual differences
Plus an additional 16 credit hours with the prior permission of the WHP Program Director from any course offered in the School of Health Sciences
Or any health-related or social science course offered within the College of Arts and Sciences, or from other schools in the university, preferably leading to the attainment of a complementary minor. c. Complementary medicine and wellness focus
Plus an additional 4 elective credit hours from
Students may choose a course not on the elective lists if preapproved by the program director as pertinent to the field of complementary medicine and wellness.
d. Health promotion intervention focus
plus a minimum of 8 credit hours from
Note
Together with and HRD 310 in the WHP core, courses marked “*” satisfy the HRD minor in training and development. e. Injury prevention focus
Plus a minimum of 4-6 elective hours from
f. Exercise science focus
Plus a minimum of 4 elective hours of WHP or EXS coursework.
g. Pre-health professional study
Students must complete a further 24 credit hours of pre-approved coursework in preparation for entry to a recognized health profession program. Note
Before designing this focus course of study, pre-health profession students should contact the professional school that they are interested in attending to obtain program admission information and must consult with a SHS adviser or the WHP Program Director for pre-approval of coursework in this focus. This focus is particularly useful for students with transfer courses that are not credited in the WHP curriculum.
h. Nutrition and health focus
Plus, a minimum of an additional 2 elective credit hours
with the prior permission of the WHP Program Director from any health-related course offered in the School of Health Sciences; or any other course pre-approved by the program director. 6. All students declaring wellness, health promotion and injury prevention as their major must undertake a Health Risk Appraisal (satisfied in WHP 403).
7. Preferred electives list
Electives should first be chosen from WHP courses, then EXS courses, then any course on the general elective list below.
Other Electives
Other elective options in biology, business, anthropology, health sciences, occupational safety and health, psychology, sociology, human resource development, or from the College of Arts and Sciences may be taken with the prior written approval of the program director. Note that courses cannot be used to satisfy both a focus requirement and a focus elective i.e. double credit. |
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