The College of Health Sciences

The mission of the College of Health Sciences is to offer high quality undergraduate and graduate programs that provide a diverse student body with the didactic knowledge and skills to lead in a changing global society while fostering an academic environment dedicated to excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.

The mission is in response to the nation’s concern for healthy persons and healthy communities and to students interested in careers in health and human performance areas. Underlying the mission are three basic assumptions:

1. We can improve the quality of life in America through health education systems as society relies more extensively on individual and community responsibility to prevent disease and promote health for all citizens.
2. We can be instrumental in the promotion of exercise and movement which can improve the quality and length of life.
3. We can assist in prevention of illness and rehabilitation of health and human performance.

Seven departments — Athletic Training, Health Studies, Exercise Science, Movement Activities and Lifetime Fitness, Nursing, Physical Education, and Speech-Language Pathology — comprise the college.

Each student’s major program consists of sequential experiences which lead to a body of knowledge within the respective field of study as well as modes of inquiry in discovering new knowledge and its significant experiential values. Within the college, students are encouraged to develop and pursue specialized interests in relation to their goals and to accept the responsibility for their academic pursuits and ultimate professional growth.