Kinesiology
Degree Options to Meet Your Goals
The Department of Health Sciences provides two Bachelors of Science degree programs focused on human health and healthcare, providing students with flexibility to meet their career interests. A link to each degree program's webpage and a brief description of each degree program are provided below:
- Exercise and Rehabilitation: This program specifically prepares students to enter careers in healthcare. The curriculum enables students to pursue graduate or specialized postbaccalaureate professional programs in a variety of clinical high-demand healthcare arenas including physical therapy, occupational therapy, physicians' assistants, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, sports medicine-athletic training, chiropractic medicine, and others. This degree also prepares students for advanced graduate study in Kinesiology, Integrative Human Physiology and Exercise Physiology. Most clinical healthcare professions require education beyond a bachelor's degree level. Additional courses may ne needed to satisfy all prerequisites for admission eligibility to some graduate and professional programs.
- Human Performance, Strength and Conditioning: This program prepares students to enter careers areas that guide healthy human functioning across the general health to athletic performance spectrum. This program focuses to prepare students for careers in healthcare, such as: corporate health-wellness programs, private health-fitness organizations, specialty strength and conditioning coaching, non-profit/community activity centers, institutional recreation centers, athlete identification and development programs, personal training, and military conditioning and performance.
Both the Exercise and Rehabilitation program and Human Performance, Strength and Conditioning program couple classroom-based learning with a variety of hands-on laboratory experiences. This strategy allows students to develop knowledge and practical skills necessary for a variety of health and healthcare related careers. Each student's journey will culminate with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in a real-world setting during a capstone 360-hour internship.
Prospective students are strongly encouraged to discuss your career interests with our Health Sciences Advisor to ensure you enroll into the major that best aligns with your future goals.
Graduates from these programs may also be interested in our Masters Degree program in Integrative Human Physiology. Please reach out to our general Health Sciences email to learn more about dual degree pathways that provide CWU undergraduate students the opportunity to earn a Masters degree in as little as 1 year after completing their bachelors degree.
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