The mission of the Health Promotion program is to provide students with relevant knowledge, skills, and experience to become competent allied health professionals in commercial, corporate fitness, and cardiac rehabilitation settings. Students in the undergraduate Health Promotion Program will develop the principles underlying optimal health, technical skills for assessing health and fitness, and behavioral strategies that encourage physical activity and improve the health and fitness status in apparently healthy and diseased individuals.

• For full details of the undergraduate health promotion program, click here.

  For full details of the health promotion internship, click here

Specializations in health promotion are offered at the Masters level (both thesis and non-thesis). The goal is to provide students with relevant knowledge, skills, and experience to become competent allied health professionals in commercial, corporate fitness, and cardiac rehabilitation settings. The Masters program provides students with theoretical and technical information and intervention strategies for leadership roles in various health promotion settings. The major areas of study include energy expenditure (Dr. Blessing), lipid metabolism (Dr. Grandjean), and exercise psychology and behavioral fitness (Dr. Wadsworth).

• For full details of the graduate health promotion program, click on this link.