Graduate Programs

Masters Programs (MS) degrees in Health Promotion, Exercise Physiology, and an interdisciplinary degree that incorporates both Health Promotion and Exercise Physiology are available within the Department of Health and Exercise Science.

Exercise Physiology is both a basic and an applied science that describes, explains,and utilizes the body’s responses to acute exercise and its adaptation to chronic training in order to maximize human physical potential. By studying Exercise Physiology, students should be better able to apply the results from scientific research in order to maximize health, rehabilitation, and/or athletic performance in a variety of populations.

Health Promotion integrates all purposeful activities designed to improve personal and public health through a combination of strategies including competent implementation of behavior change strategies, health education, health protection measures, risk factor detection, risk factor reduction, health enhancement, and health maintenance activities. Students in the Health Promotion emphasis learn how to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions and programs that are based on behavior change theory, and emphasize modification of lifestyle risks.

Doctoral Programs (PhD) in the Department of Health and Exercise Science consists of the independent mastery of a field of knowledge and the successful pursuit of research in Exercise Physiology or Health Promotion. The Ph.D. degree is awarded for excellence in research scholarship and signifies the attainment of independently acquired and comprehensive learning in one of these disciplines. The mission of the Ph.D. program in Health and Exercise Science is to train individuals for careers as scholars, educators, and researchers in these disciplines.

A student should normally expect to spend four full academic years beyond the master's degree. During this period the student will take course work, successfully complete the general oral and written examinations, and submit and successfully defend the results of original research. The total number of hours, combining both formal courses and hours of research, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree will be ninety post-baccalaureate hours, exclusive of credits accumulated to satisfy research tool requirements.

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