Health, Exercise and Sports
Community Health
Our program provides practical experiences and experiential coursework to prepare you for careers in public or private agencies, local health departments, volunteer organizations, hospitals, health insurance companies, worksite/corporate health promotion and wellness programs, and a variety of community-based organizations and projects (such as smoking cessation programs, health and cancer associations, substance abuse agencies, community nutrition interventions, HIV/AIDS prevention programs, and injury prevention initiatives).
Exercise and Sport Science
The Exercise and Sport Science bachelor's degree prepares you to pursue careers related to health and fitness with knowledge in physiology and kinesiology.
Health and Physical Education Teaching
Our program is designed to prepare you with the teaching knowledge and skills for health and physical education teaching. You’ll gain the skill set to implement developmentally appropriate instruction for all learners, assessing health and physical education content knowledge and skill proficiency, using instructional technology effectively.
Kinesiology
Our program is designed to prepare you for the expertise in the study of human movement and physical activity. You develop scholarly and professional skills through course work, research projects, tailored mentoring with faculty advisors, participation in grant writing, presenting at scientific conferences, and journal publishing.
Sports Administration and Sport Management
The Sport Management undergraduate and Sports Administration graduate programs at Wayne State University are the vital link between your passion for sports and a career in athletics. In our classes, you'll receive innovative instruction from industry experts that focus on applying knowledge to solve "real world" challenges in amateur, collegiate, and professional sports. Whether your goal is to become a front-office executive, an athletic administrator, a coach, or a program director, our programs offer you the skills, experience, and credibility to prepare you to succeed in a variety of meaningful sports-industry careers.
Lifestyle Fitness Activities
The Lifestyle Fitness Activities (LFA) program serves the local campus and community to provide them with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to participate for a lifetime in physical fitness activities, sports, and games. Courses are designed for individuals who want to take charge of their own health, quality of life and create life-long healthy habits.
Health, Exercise and Sports - AGRADE
AGRADE programs are available to academically strong students completing B.S. degrees. This allows students to begin master's degree coursework while simultaneously completing their bachelor's degree.
Health, Exercise and Sports - Minors
Minors allows undergraduate students in any department across all schools and colleges at WSU to add a minor, which adds skills and knowledge as a credential to their degree programs.