Health Education
Degree: Master of Science
Division: Health, Leisure & Exercise Science
Building 54, Room 119
(850) 474-2592
hles@uwf.edu
College: Professional Studies

The master's degree in Health Education provides the student a choice of a Nutrition and Fitness Emphasis or a Psychosocial Emphasis. The program requires 39 semester hours including a core of 15 hours. The remaining 24 hours are carefully chosen by the student in consultation with an advisor. A student has the option of completing a thesis or an internship. Consult the department for advisement.

FOUNDATIONAL PROFICIENCIES
Students must have previous credit in human anatomy or physiology or pathophysiology, general biology, and personal and community health or equivalent.

NUTRITION AND FITNESS SPECIALIZATION
HLP 6535 Research Procedures 3
HLP 6595 Research Seminar 3
HSC 5037 Historical Foundations of Health Education 3
HSC 5506 Epidemiology 3
HSC 5585 Health Promotion and Planning 3


Choose 24 sh from:

HLP 6515 Evaluation Process in Sports 3
HLP 6922 Field Experience 3
Course offered 1-3 sh per semester
HLP 6940 Internship 3-6
Course offered 3-6 sh per semester
HLP 6971 Thesis 6
Course offered 1-6 sh per semester
HSC 5237 Nutrition & Health 3
HSC 5552 Communicable and Degenerative Diseases 3
PET 3351/L Exercise Physiology/Lab 4
PET 4310/L Mechanics of Human Motion/Lab 4
PET 4361 Sport Nutrition and Weight Control  3
PET 4552  Exercise Testing for Special Populations 3
PET 5235 Motor Learning 3
PET 5385C Exercise Prescription & Testing 3
PET 5626 Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries 3
PET 5635C Therapeutic Modalities in Sports Medicine 3
PET 6346 Biomechanics of Sports Skills 3
PET 6355C Advanced Exercise Physiology 3
Electives as approved by the department chair

PSYCHO-SOCIAL SPECIALIZATION  
HLP 6535 Research Procedures 3
HLP 6595 Research Seminar 3
HSC 5037 Historical Foundations of Health Education 3
HSC 5506 Epidemiology 3
HSC 5585 Health Promotion and Planning 3


Choose 24 sh from:
EAB 4704 Introduction to Behavior Modification 3
EAB 5705 Advanced Behavior Modification 3
EAB 5738 Behavioral Medicine 3
HLP 6922  Field Experience 3
Course offered 1-3 sh per semester
HLP 6940 Internship 3-6
Course offered 3-6 sh per semester
HLP 6971 Thesis 6
Course offered 1-6 sh per semester
HSA 6106 Critical Analysis of Health 3
HSC 5135 Health Guidance 3
HSC 5552 Communicable and Degenerative Diseases 3
HSC 6206 Community Health Delivery Systems 3
PCO 4310 Intervention in Addictions 3
PCO 6216 Theories of Individual Counseling 3
PCO 6246 Theories of Group Counseling 3
PCO 6278 Multicultural Counseling  3
PSB 4731 Psychobiology of Sexual Behavior 3
PSY 4820 Health Psychology 3
Electives as approved by the department chair

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