Corporate and Worksite Wellness
Worksite Wellness focuses on establishing and maintaining a healthy environment in the workplace, schools, and community, as well as working with health systems to reduce complications from many chronic diseases. In Worksite Wellness, you will promote and encourage employees to lead a healthy lifestyle through programming including but not limited to smoking cessation, biometric screenings, stress management, weight loss, back health/safety, and fitness classes. Many programs include incentives and rewards as employees work towards healthier choices, and successful worksite wellness programs show more productive employees, higher employee satisfaction, and lower absenteeism due to illness.
In the Corporate and Worksite Wellness certificate program, you will take core courses in physiology, biomechanics, diagnostic testing and exercise prescription / worksite wellness programs. The program also offers a broad range of electives to complete the certificate. Specific Curricular Requirements can be found in the Graduate Catalog.
Admission Requirements
- Graduate application
- Background in basic and applied health sciences
- Minimum overall undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 (B)
- Exercise Science Supplemental Application form which includes a goal statement
- Two Recommendation for Graduate Admission forms from academics familiar with the student’s abilities (preferred) or from employment supervisors
- International Applicants - GRE exam
- Suitable work experience in the field of exercise science strongly recommended
Detailed information regarding admission can be found in the Graduate Catalog (see Curricular Requirements).
Admission Terms and Application Deadlines
Before an applicant’s file can be reviewed for full program admission, all application documents must be received in Graduate Study and Lifelong Learning by the semester deadlines listed below.
- July 15 for fall semester
- November 15 for winter semester
- March 15 for summer semester
- International applicants: May 1 for fall, September 1 for winter, January 1 for summer
Incomplete applications will not be sent to departments for admission review.
Dr. Daniel Goble
Director and Associate Professor
1015 Human Health Building
[email protected]
School of Health Sciences
3070 Human Health Building
433 Meadow Brook Road
Rochester, MI 48309-4452
(location map)
(248) 370-2369
[email protected]
Dean's Office
Human Health Building
(248) 370-3562
[email protected]
School of Health Sciences
3070 Human Health Building
433 Meadow Brook Road
Rochester, MI 48309-4452
(location map)
(248) 370-2369
Dean's Office
Human Health Building
(248) 370-3562
[email protected]