{"id":23,"date":"2017-10-02T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/hpx\/minors\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:45:09","slug":"minors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/minors\/","title":{"rendered":"HPX Minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HPX department now offers three minors. Promoting good health is an interest for many students regardless of major. These minors can enrich major programs such as Nursing, Education, Psychology, Communications, Business, the Natural Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies. Students can choose Exercise Science, Holistic and Integrative Health, or Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Students accepted into the program are expected to have completed all course prerequisites for the program. To obtain a minor you must notify the Department Chairperson of your interest. Depending upon your major requirements, you may need to take credit hours over the degree credit minimum required for graduation. Please see your adviser to review all program requirements.<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minor in Public Health (18 SH)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Required Courses (6 SH):<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nHPX 100 Introduction to Health &amp; Wellness<br \/>\nHPX 271 Health Education Programs in the Community<br \/>\n<strong><em>12 credits (12 SH) in Health Promotion and Exercise Sciences (HPX)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minor in Exercise Science (19 SH)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Required Courses (19 SH)<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nHPX 113 Introduction to Exercise Science<br \/>\nHPX 203 Introduction to Human Nutrition<br \/>\nPSY 262 Sport Psychology<br \/>\nHPX 313 Principles of Personal Training*<br \/>\nHPX 314 Exercise Physiology*<br \/>\nHPX 318 Exercise Kinesiology*<\/p>\n<p><em>*Courses with prerequisite requirements of BIO 105 &amp; BIO 106<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minor in Holistic and Integrative Health (18 SH)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Required Courses (6 SH):<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nHPX 100 Introduction to Health &amp; Wellness<br \/>\nHPX 240 Principles of Holistic and Integrative Health<br \/>\nHPX 271 Health Education Programs in the Community<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Select three (3) Approved HPX Electives from the list below (9 SH):<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>HPX 203 Introduction to Human Nutrition<br \/>\nHPX 241 Mind\/Body Interventions for Health<br \/>\nHPX 242 Cross Cultural &amp; Traditional Healing Methods<br \/>\nHPX 343 Foods, Herbs, Supplements and Other Natural Products<br \/>\nHPX 344 Energy Healing Therapies<br \/>\nHPX 348 Principles of Wellness Coaching<br \/>\nANT 233 Medical Anthropology<br \/>\nCOM 245 Meditation, Self-Awareness, and Communication<br \/>\nPHI 241 Buddhist Philosophy<br \/>\nPHI 245 Philosophy of Death and Dying<br \/>\nPHI 265 Philosophy of Happiness<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information about the minors, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Emily Stevens, HPX Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:stevense@wcsu.edu\">stevense@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HPX department now offers three minors. Promoting good health is an interest for many students regardless of major. These minors can enrich major programs such as Nursing, Education, Psychology, Communications, Business, the Natural Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies. Students can &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-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/hpx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}