A major requires 31 hours in health and exercise science and must include:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Major Courses * | ||
| HES 262 | Statistics in the Health Sciences | 3 |
| HES 312 | Exercise and Health Psychology | 3 |
| HES 350 & 350L | Human Physiology and Human Physiology Lab | 4 |
| HES 351 | Nutrition in Health and Disease | 3 |
| HES 352 | Human Gross Anatomy | 4 |
| HES 353 | Physiology of Exercise | 3 |
| HES 354 | Assessment Techniques in Health and Exercise Science | 3 |
| HES 360 | Epidemiology | 3 |
| HES 370 | Biomechanics of Human Movement | 3 |
| Select two hours of the following: | 2 | |
| Emergency Medical Responder | ||
| Clinical Research Internship | ||
| Mindfulness Meditation in Behavioral Medicine | ||
| Exercise Programming | ||
| Anatomy Dissection Laboratory | ||
| Advanced Physiology of Exercise | ||
| Interventions in Behavioral Medicine | ||
| Individual Study | ||
| Special Topics in Health and Exercise Science | ||
| Honors Research | ||
| Field Internship in Health Sciences | ||
| Anthropology of Global Health | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| The Art and Science of Health and Healing | ||
| Neurobiology and Neurobiology Lab | ||
| Genetics | ||
| Cellular and Molecular Biology | ||
| Biomechanics | ||
| Hormones and Behavior | ||
| Microbiology | ||
| Molecular Neuroscience | ||
| Functional Neuroanatomy | ||
| Methods in Neuroscience | ||
| Principles of Biological Microscopy | ||
| Immunology | ||
| Sensory Biology | ||
| Biology of the Cell | ||
| Virology | ||
| Advanced Molecular Biology | ||
| Genomics | ||
| Biochemistry I: Macromolecules and Metabolism | ||
| Biochemistry II | ||
| Ethics in Health and Human Services | ||
| Health and Human Services in a Diverse Society | ||
| Skills in Human Services | ||
| Professional Orientation to Health and Human Services | ||
| Health Communication: Patient-Provider | ||
| Health Communication Campaigns | ||
| Health Communication and Bioethics | ||
| Economics of Health and Medicine | ||
| Introduction to Public Health | ||
| Introduction to Bioethics | ||
| Concepts of Health & Disease | ||
| Philosophy of Science | ||
| Developmental Psychology | ||
| Biopsychology | ||
| Psychopharmacology | ||
| Sociology of Health and Illness | ||
| Money, Markets and Medicine | ||
| Introduction to Regression and Data Science | ||
| Design and Sampling | ||
| Advanced Athletic Training | ||
| Co-Requirements | ||
| BIO 150 & 150L | Biology I and Biology I Lab | 4 |
| CHM 111 & 111L | College Chemistry I and College Chemistry I Lab | 4 |
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No more than 2 of the 10 required courses may be transferred from another institution.
Majors are not allowed to apply any HES 100-level courses toward the 31 hours required for graduation. A minimum grade point average of 2.0 is required for graduation in courses that comprise a major in the department.
Highly qualified majors are invited by the department to apply for admission to the honors program in health and exercise science during the second semester of the junior year. To be graduated with the designation “Honors in Health and Exercise Science,” a student must have a minimum grade point average of 3.4 in the major, a minimum overall grade point average of 3.4, and complete an honors research project which includes a written and an oral report. Interested students should consult the coordinator of the department’s honors program. For more information, please consult the department’s website at www.wfu.edu/hes.