Prospective Students - SHS - Wellness, Health Promotion and Injury Prevention

See if you are interested in this dynamic program by completing the questionnaire below. If you are interested, check the additional links throughout our site.

The School of Health Sciences at Oakland University is pleased to offer the Bachelor of Science degree in Wellness, Health Promotion, and Injury Prevention. We are confident that the program will meet the interests and needs of prospective students seeking careers in this emerging field of study. Take a moment to read through the survey questions below, and if you answer yes to more than one of the questions, this choice of university degree program is probably what you are looking for to prepare you for a future career.

We see this dynamic program geared to meeting the needs of young professional students. The carefully crafted curriculum has been designed after consultation with industry experts in order to meet future qualification and skill needs in the health promotion fields. Strengths of the program include the flexibility to choose a specialization in one of eight focus areas, the option to take related minor programs of study, and the sound preparation you will receive if you later progress to a graduate program of study in an allied health field.

I invite you to consider this unique degree as your program of choice, and welcome inquiries from prospective students. I can be contacted at the address below.

Good luck with your choice and decision about university study.

-- Stafford C. Rorke, D.Phil., FACSM

Are you interested in subjects such as exercise, nutrition, health, health promotion, business, human resource development, psychology, stress management, alternate/complementary medicine, wellness, prevention of disease, and prevention of unintentional or intentional injury?
Do you like working with people?
Do you like helping others?
Would you like to work with people who are essentially healthy, but need assistance to stay healthy and prevent disease, rather than working with those who are sick and require rehabilitation?
Are you interested in any of the careers or emerging opportunities in this field such as health and fitness technician/instructor/leader/specialist; exercise leader/trainer/specialist/director; personal trainer, health promotion or wellness coordinator/manager/director; injury prevention advocate, employee assistance manager, health benefits manager, counselor, human resources practitioner, patient educator/interpreter, patient services coordinator, health information management, health and fitness sales/equipment/marketing, computer- or health-data management, among many other occupations in this growing field?
Do you potentially see yourself continuing to graduate school in fields such as public health, exercise science, human factors, human resource development, psychology, counseling, or executive MBA; among others related to this emerging field of study?

Interested? What now? If you are interested in the Wellness, Health Promotion and Injury Prevention degree offered by Oakland University please contact us.