{"id":13,"date":"2017-10-02T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/hpx\/default\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:10:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><em>Help Improve Health &amp; <\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><em>Wellness<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Developing career professionals who are revolutionary leaders <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>empowered to impact health promotion <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\"><b>using an experiential, holistic and <\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><b>multidisciplinary<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\"><b>\u00a0approach.<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"subTitle\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Undergraduate Degree Programs:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are three degree programs within the health promotion and exercise sciences area:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/health-education\/\">B.S. Health Education (PK-12) <\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nBachelor of Science degree and teaching certification as a school health educator<\/li>\n<li><strong>B.S. Public Health<\/strong><br \/>\nBachelor of Science degree as a public health educator, with options in Allied Health, Community Health, and Fitness &amp; Wellness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Following completion of a Bachelor of Science in Health Education or Bachelor of Science in Public Health, students will be prepared to sit for the national CHES examination (Certified Health Education Specialist &#8211; the credential for health educators)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Options:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/allied-health-option\/\">Allied Health<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/community-health-option\/\">Community Health<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/fitness-wellness-option\/\"><strong>Fitness &amp; Wellness<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>B.S. Sport &amp; Wellness Management\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Bachelor of Science degree prepares students to pursue positions in sports facilities, fitness and wellness centers and corporations, parks and recreation, healthcare facilities, and other for profit and non-profit sport and wellness settings or start a sport and wellness venture at some time in the future<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Options:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/sport-management-option\/\"><strong>Sport Management<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wellness-management-option\/\">Wellness Management<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Want to Minor in Public Health?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/minors\/\">HPX Minors<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subTitle\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">More Information:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/catalogs.wcsu.edu\/ugrad\/sps\/programs\/health-promotion-and-exercise-sciences\/\">The WCSU Catalog\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/hpx\/mission\">Department Vision &amp; Mission<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/hpx\/faculty\">Department Faculty<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/hpx\/contact\">Contact Information<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1788 size-medium alignleft\" style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/ceph-bachelors-only-red-jpeg-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/ceph-bachelors-only-red-jpeg-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/05\/ceph-bachelors-only-red-jpeg.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #002856;\"><strong>Wolf Path MAPS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Wolf Path on Midtown is a 1 mile route and Westside is 0.5 mile.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3024 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/Wolf-Track-Map.jpg\" alt=\"Midtown Campus Wolf Track\" width=\"1000\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/Wolf-Track-Map.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/Wolf-Track-Map-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/Wolf-Track-Map-768x673.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3026 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/wolf-Tracks-map-westside.jpg\" alt=\"Westside Campus Wolf Track\" width=\"1000\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/wolf-Tracks-map-westside.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/wolf-Tracks-map-westside-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2025\/06\/wolf-Tracks-map-westside-768x673.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help Improve Health &amp; Wellness Developing career professionals who are revolutionary leaders empowered to impact health promotion using an experiential, holistic and multidisciplinary\u00a0approach. &nbsp; Undergraduate Degree Programs: There are three degree programs within the health promotion and exercise sciences area: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}