General Information about Physical Education Degrees Physical Education Faculty For more details about Physical Education Faculty and Programs click on the More Departmental Information button on the left. The program is centered on a health enhancement model. This program model involves a learning process that emphasizes increasing one's knowledge, affecting an individual's attitudes and changing personal behaviors relative to health and physical activity.
Health encompasses the mental, social, emotional, physical and spiritual human potentials.
Physical activity includes exercise, sports, games, dance, aquatic activites, physical fitness and outdoor activities. The Health and Physical Education Program is designed to provide a prospective teacher with experiences to design and teach a systematically organized curriculum for kindergarten through twelth grade. Teaching such curriculum will favorably influence all students toward quality of life improvement, physical activity habits, and positively impacting on lifestyles. The program focus area in sports medicine thoroughly prepares a student for entry level graduate programs in athletic training, which leads to qualification for taking the national certification examination for entry-level athletic trainers. It also prepares students wishing to transfer into accredited undergraduate athletic training programs.