Bachelor of Health Science and Wellness

• Licenciado

  Título

• Inglés

  Lengua de las instrucciones

• 4 años

  Años de estudio

• Tiempo completo

  Modo de estudio

• 28 de junio de 2024

  Studies commence

• Estados Unidos, Stevens Point

  Location

The health science and wellness major at UW-Stevens Point will prepare you with an interdisciplinary and liberal arts foundation for a variety of professional careers within the health care system. Wellness professionals deliver scientifically based programs designed to help people improve the quality of their lives. Around the world, UW-Stevens Point is considered as the home of wellness. In fact, the National Wellness Institute was founded here and still maintains a close relationship with our academic program. As a health science and wellness major at UW-Stevens Point, you’ll meet pioneers in the wellness movement who strongly believe in the concept of preventing, rather than treating, illnesses while embracing a healthy lifestyle that includes the seven dimensions of wellness. Graduates in the field of health promotion and wellness are employed in a wide variety of health-related careers. Whether located in a corporate, community, hospital or educational setting, professionals are actively involved in facilitating behavior change and promoting healthy lifestyles. Courses emphasize the human, behavioral and physical sciences and foster an appreciation of the complexities of the health care system through four options of study: • Health Care Administration • Pre-Athletic Training • Pre-Occupational Therapy • Pre-Physical Therapy More career options include: •exercise specialist •personal trainer •exercise physiologist •fitness manager •wellness center manager •health educator •community health specialist •wellness promotion director •youth sports instructor •lifestyle coach •behavior change specialist