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Exercise & Health Science

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Overview

Our Exercise & Health Science (EHS) major will help fulfill your curiosity about how the human body works; how to keep the body working as efficiently as possible; how to prevent, care for, and rehabilitate the body when it is not functioning properly; and how to pass on the information obtained to those around us. The EHS major will assist and enable you to pursue careers in health, fitness, and sports professions. Current, fun, hands-on, practical information has helped make the EHS major one of our most popular majors.

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Our Commitment to You

We will provide you with current information to help you make informed choices concerning your body and general health. We desire to see you use godly principles to help guide you through those choices, while basing all the information that we provide upon those godly principles.

We strive to give the best instruction possible using quality equipment. We promise to help prepare you for future careers in the Exercise & Health Science field and to do so to the best of our ability.

Click for the Four-Year Plan for Each Option

  • Exercise and Health Science – The “Foundation” option is for you if you are not planning on teaching Physical Education in the K-12 school setting. Instead, this option assists you if you desire a career in the allied health, fitness, or sports professions. In some cases, additional education and/or certifications are required before a graduate can begin his or her professional career, but the EHS “Foundation” option will prepare you for entrance into graduate school or to take and pass certification exams to work as a personal trainer or health and fitness consultant.
  • Physical Education - K-12 Licensure – The “Licensure” option is for you if you desire to teach Physical Education in the elementary and secondary school setting. “Licensure” candidates work with our Education department to fulfill the qualifications for a professional teaching license.

Potential Jobs

  • Athletic Director
  • Coach
  • Personal Trainer
  • Fitness Center employee
  • Fitness Counselor/Consultant
  • Physical Education Teacher
  • Recreation Employee/Director
  • Physical Therapist/Occupational Therapist (requires additional degree)
  • More »

Graduate Schools

  • Belmont University
  • Georgia State University
  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Medical University of South Carolina
  • University of Alabama – Birmingham
  • University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  • University of Tennessee – Chattanooga
  • University of Tennessee – Knoxville
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Virginia Tech. University, School of Medicine

Minor

Sampling of Classes

  • Adapted Physical Education
  • Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries
  • Exercise Leadership & Prescription
  • Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Education
  • Motor Learning
  • Physiology of Exercise
  • Sport Psychology
  • Structural Kinesiology
  • 27 different activity courses ranging from Archery to Water Safety

Faculty

Adjunct Instructors

  • Mr. Matt Dillard
  • Mr. Bryson Harper
  • Mr. Taylor Hasty
  • Ms. Amy Josephson
  • Mrs. Elizabeth A. Lewis
  • Mrs. Janice Perron
  • Ms. Audrey Porter
  • Mr. Don Rekoske
  • Mr. Micah Ruehling
  • Mrs. Alison Williams