Health and Human Performance Major at George Fox University
Are you interested in sports, exercise science or wellness? George Fox University’s health and human performance major – with one of its three concentrations – gives you a comprehensive science-based education and clinical foundation in a Christian college setting.
Study health and nutrition, the biomechanical principles of human motion and motor learning, and gain techniques for teaching skills, stunts, games and sports.
In addition to the health-related courses, you’ll take general education classes ranging from Bible and humanities to communication and mathematics – all taught from a Christian worldview where faith is integrated with learning.
Choose from three concentrations:
Fitness Management
Ideal for those interested in working in health clubs, corporate and personal fitness instructor settings, or community recreation programs. Upon graduation, you’ll be ready to operate your own fitness facility or work as a personal trainer in private, public and corporate fitness centers.
Health Preteaching*
Take the first step toward becoming a teacher. Curriculum emphasizes a wellness theme that incorporates individual responsibility and promotes a healthy lifestyle.
Physical Education Preteaching*
Focuses on skills acquisition and teaching methodology pertaining to team and individual sports and lifetime recreation.
* Those who graduate with one of the two preteaching concentrations then enroll in a master of arts in teaching program. Both concentrations, when combined with an MAT program, prepare you to teach K-12 health or physical education or to obtain positions in community, public health, and health promotion settings.
Graduates of our program are …
- Teaching at the college and high school levels
- Operating their own fitness facilities
- Working at YMCAs and health clubs
- Serving as certified athletic trainers
- Employed as physical therapists and clinical dieticians
George Fox University is the only Christian university in the Pacific Northwest classified by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, and Forbes ranks George Fox highest among Christian colleges in the country.