BW alumnus coaches team to gold medal victory in Paris Olympics August 14
WNBA Coach Curt Miller '90 served as an assistant coach for the winning 2024 USA Basketball Women's National Team.
School of Health Sciences
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Empowering individuals to attain and maintain wellness is at the core of community health education promotion. It is a versatile career path that addresses today's ever-growing need for health awareness and education.
BW's program combines coursework in health behavior management, psychology and biology. You'll learn about nutrition, fitness, exercise, stress management, substance abuse and more.
Through your studies, you'll learn an integrative approach to wellness that focuses on whole-person care and disease prevention. Emphasis will be placed on program design and behavior modification as methods of educating and supporting clients.
A rewarding major, community health education promotion provides the competencies to enable you to work in schools, public and private agencies, worksites, health departments and clinical settings.
A required internship bridges classroom learning with real-world experience. You'll gain valuable networking contacts and resume-enhancing experiences.
In addition to becoming a health educator, counselor or coach, career opportunities include:
Offered as a major, community health education promotion is a broad-based program. You'll gain insights and motivational techniques for educating and supporting individuals in making positive health choices.
Our world-class faculty will help you make your educational experience everything you want it to be. Small class sizes and an 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio mean professors get to know you and your interests.
Experiential learning bridges classroom study with real-world opportunities. You can enhance your studies through internships, co-curricular activities and other learning opportunities.
At the annual Honors Ceremony in the spring, recognitions include:
The BW Choose Ohio First STEM Scholars Program is open to Ohio residents who are entering Baldwin Wallace in the fall as a first-year student or transfer student and are interested in community health education promotion. Students are eligible to apply to the program which also offers the Choose Ohio First scholarship, awarding substantial annual, renewable scholarships.
Amy Jo Sutterluety
Chair, Department of Allied Health, Sport and Wellness
Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Jaimy M. Dyer
Program Director, M.S. in Exercise Physiology
Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Cory Beaumont
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Tennessee
Megan Frank
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Kent State University
Karyn Gentile
Associate Professor
Assistant Athletic Trainer
M.S., Syracuse University
Wendy Hyde
Assistant Professor
M.Ed., Springfield College
Alexander Morgan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee