Health Science

Graduates will be well prepared for immediate employment in health promotion or continued graduate studies in a variety of allied health fields. Majors will select one of the following concentrations.

• GENERAL
• This concentration provides students a path to use the degree to support health care careers immediately upon graduation. Examples include health promotion, patient and health educator. Students may also pursue professional degree programs in public health (wellness education), business (pharmaceutical sales), law (health care regulation), and public policy (health care reform).
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• OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
• This concentration prepares students who want to pursue graduate studies in Occupational Therapy (MS, MOT). Occupational Therapists help people across their lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities (occupations).
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• KINESIOLOGY
• This prepares students who want to pursue graduate studies in Physical Therapy (DPT). Physical therapists (PTs) are licensed health care professionals who can help patients reduce pain and improve or restore mobility, in many cases without expensive surgery and often reducing the need for long-term use of prescription medications and their side effects.
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• BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE
• This concentration prepares students who want to pursue graduate studies in Physician Assistant Studies (MS). Physician assistants, also known as PAs, practice medicine on teams with physicians, surgeons, and other health care workers. They examine, diagnose, and treat patients.