2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Health and Physical Education, BS


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The curriculum offers programs of study leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education in one of two concentration areas: PK-12 Licensure and in Health Promotion (HP). Both concentrations share a core of coursework during the freshman and sophomore years. Then, depending on interest and career goals, students will take courses in one of the program concentrations during their junior and senior years.

Civitae Core Requirement (39-40 credits)


Health and Physical Education majors may count Civitae Core Curriculum  courses satisfying major requirements as also satisfying their respective Civitae Core requirements, up to two Pillar courses and one Perspectives course.  The following course major requirements may be used to satisfy the following:

  • HPEP 310  satisfies the Quantitative Reasoning Perspective requirement in the Health Promotion Concentration

Courses satisfying major requirements that are designated as Civitae Core courses subsequent to the print deadline of this Catalog will not appear in the above listings but will be eligible to also satisfy Civitae Core requirements, subject to the same rules as the others.  (If doing so would otherwise decrease the total credits required for the degree below 120, General Elective credit must be substituted to restore the total.)

Additional Degree Requirements (4 credits)


Major Requirements


General Electives (0-4 credits)


Total Credits Required


  • BS Degree in Health and Physical Education with PK-12 Licensure Concentration 121
  • BS Degree in Health and Physical Education with PK-12 Licensure Concentration and Driver Education Endorsement 127
  • BS Degree in Health and Physical Education with Health Promotion Concentration 120

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