The program emphasizes health-related social and behavioral change in the community, school, and workplace settings. Particular research and practice include school health, women's health, and physical activity's impact on health. Graduate coursework includes methods of health education needs assessment as well as designing, implementing and evaluating health programs. Students interested in elementary and secondary health education programs are prepared to teach comprehensive health education at the secondary or elementary levels. Health education professionals provide leadership necessary for improving health in a rapidly changing, multicultural and technologically complex society.
Health educators provide services in communities, corporations, medical facilities, and schools.
The Master of Education in Instructional Management provides teachers and other interested in curriculum a graduate program that focuses on innovative approaches to meeting the instructional needs of diverse learners. Studies in Instructional Management focus on individual differences, cultural and systemic factors influencing schools and classrooms, effective management of learning environments, innovative approaches to assessment, and collaboration and partnerships with parents, educators, and community members. The Culinary Arts Institute provides interdisciplinary instruction in the culinary arts that emphasizes classic cooking techniques in small quantity cooking. In addition to the mastery of cooking skills and knowledge of food service appropriate for the industry, students will also be prepared for employment and leadership in diverse areas of the burgeoning food industry such as managing a corporate dining facility, working as a food stylist or photographer, writing a food column in the growing epicurean publication market, and serving the growing and important programs in wellness throughout the nation. The culinary arts certificate program of 10 one- hour courses is attractive to food service personnel.