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2011-2012 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 point 4 below satisfy both general education requirements, and wellness, health promotion, and injury prevention degree requirements. See courses marked *. 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
Note
(*Courses that also satisfy the university general education requirement). 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 40 credits for the psychology major as detailed below. Note that 12 credits of psychology courses are satisfied in the WHP core curriculum, (See point #4 above). Therefore, in this focus students must complete a minimum of an additional 28 credit hours of psychology, plus 4 credit hours of WHP electives for a total of 32 credit hours. Students must declare the additional major in psychology by completing an additional major form, and must attain a minimum GPA of 2.00 over all psychology courses. Plus one course from three of the following groups
Plus 8 elective hours of psychology credits at any level, except PSY 399
Plus 4 credit hours of WHP electives
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 20 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 16 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
WHP 380 plus a minimum of 12 credit hours from
And any of the following courses
Note
- Together with HRD 310 in the WHP core, courses marked “*” satisfy the HRD minor in training and development.
e. Injury prevention focus
Plus a minimum of 12 elective hours from
f. Exercise science focus
Plus 8 elective credit hours from the general elective list below
Students may choose a course not on the elective lists if preapproved by the program director as pertinent to the field of exercise science. g. Pre-health professional study
Students must complete a further 32 credit hours of preapproved course-work 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. h. Nutrition and health focus
Plus four hours from the following electives
Plus, a minimum of an additional 10 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 305).
7. Preferred electives list
Courses offering certificates are highly recommended as electives, for example:
General elective list:
- BIO 104 - Human Biology (4)
- BIO 111 - Biology (4)
- BIO 300 - Biology And Society (4)
- BIO 351 - Neurobiology (4)
- BIO 423 - Immunology (4)
- ENV 308 - Introduction to Environmental Studies (4)
- ENV 355 - Public and Environmental Health (3)
- ENV 356
- ENV 364 - Hazardous Materials Emergency Response (3)
- EXS 105 - Cardiovascular Fitness Training (2)
- EXS 303
- EXS 304 - Exercise Physiology (3)
- EXS 321 - Basic Athletic Training (2)
- EXS 350 - Human Motion Analysis (4)
- EXS 406 - The Brain and Disease (2)
- EXS 410 - Clinical Biomechanics (2)
- EXS 425 - Exercise Electrocardiography (2)
- EXS 435 - Environment and Human Performance (2)
- EXS 445 - Physical Activity and Aging (2)
- EXS 450 - Children and Exercise (2)
- HRD 304 - Lean Principles and Practices in Organizations (4)
- HRD 306 - Introduction to Human Resource Development (4)
- HRD 308 - Principles of Leadership (4)
- HRD 323 - Negotiation for Personal Success (4)
- HRD 351 - Fundamentals of Human Interaction (4)
- HRD 363 - Group/Team Development and Leadership (4)
- HRD 364 - Career Development (4)
- HRD 372 - Staffing, Performance Evaluation and Interaction within Organizations (4)
- HRD 401 - Change Process and Organizational Analysis (4)
- HS 311 - Contemporary Topics in Nutrition (2)
- HS 331 - Pharmacology (2)
- HS 401 - Human Pathology (4)
- MLS 423 - Clinical Immunology (3)
- PHY 131 - The Physics of Cancer, Stroke, Heart Disease, and Headache (4)
- PHY 318 - Nuclear Physics Laboratory (2)
- plus any course on the general, complementary medicine, health promotion interventions, injury prevention, exercise science, nutrition, or pre-professional focus group lists above. Other elective options in biology, business, anthropology, health sciences, 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.
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