Health Science
What will your degree say?
BS in Health Science
If you pass your certification exam/exit exam, what will your credentials say?
CHES - 'Certified Health Education Specialist'
What will your career be?
Health Educator
What is Health Education?
The process of assisting individuals and communities to make informed decisions on matters affecting health; individual and population-based disease prevention and health promotion - keeping communities safe.
What are the skills of the Health Educator (CHES) that you will learn and demonstrate/perform?
- Assess individual and community needs for health education
- Plan health education strategies, interventions, and programs
- Implement health education strategies, interventions, and programs
- Conduct evaluation and research related to health education
- Administer health education strategies, interventions, and programs
- Serve as a health education resource specialist
- Communicate and advocate for health and health education
What are the Pattern/Concentration areas of emphasis is Health Science?
- Community Health Education/Worksite Health Promotion/Public Health/Epidemiology
- Healthcare Administration
- Pre-Occupational Therapy
- Pre-Physician Assistant
- Pre-Medicine
- Pre-Nutrition
Coursework:
Sciences: Human Physiology, Human Anatomy/Lab, Bio, Chem, Org Chem/Lab, Cell Bio, Physics; other advanced sciences.
Health Sciences: Community and Public Health, Health Science Principles, Research Methods in Health Science, Program Assessment and Planning, Health Communication Methods, Program Implementation and Evaluation, Health Promotion Mgt/Marketing, Physiological Assessment, Global Public Health, School Health Programs, Worksite Health Programs, Epidemiology.
Health Education: Substance Abuse Prevention, Human Sexuality, Consumer Health, Patient Education and Clinical Health Promotion, Community Nutrition for Special Populations, Mental Health, Environmental Health.