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• Health and Fitness Education (BA)

In this major, you will proceed through a sequential, comprehensive curriculum that prepares you to enter a variety of movement-related professions, including teaching, fitness training, and recreational leadership.

• A minimum 72 credits are required in this major, including 35 upper-division credits.
• A minimum 34鈥�36 credits are required for these minors, including 15 upper-division credits.
• This major requires you to complete the 44 credits of core courses, as well as the remainder of additional credits.
• This major includes 5 elective credits.
• You are required to complete PES 4899 鈥淪enior Capstone,鈥� in which you research a topic, write a well-documented paper, and present it before your professors and peers.

Programs offered

• Health and Fitness Education (major and minor)
• Coaching Science (minor)

The Health and Fitness Education faculty are committed to delivering a program that promotes health through physical activity while valuing and examining physical activity through a Christian worldview.

Find out more about this program鈥檚 mission, vision, and learning outcomes.

Health and Fitness Education (BA)

Health and Fitness and Coaching Science minor

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• Health and Fitness Minor
• Coaching Science Minor

• A minimum 34 credits are required for the Health and Fitness minor, including 15 upper-division credits.
• The Health and Fitness minor includes 29 credits of required courses, and an elective of your choice.
• A minimum 36 credits are required for the Coaching Science minor, including 15 upper-division credits.
• The Coaching Science minor includes 36 credits of required courses, including a practicum.

Apply to the major or minor

• You must have a minimum 2.5 GPA in at least 9 credits taken at SPU that apply to this major or minor.
• Apply to this major or minor through the .
• You must complete the major or minor requirements in effect when you are admitted to this major or minor.

Future teachers

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• Integrated Studies: Health & Fitness Concentration (BA)

Elementary Teacher Certification

If you plan to obtain Residency Teacher Certification (K鈥�8) and are interested in teaching health and fitness, you must major in the Integrated Studies (BA) major with a concentration in Health and Fitness.

The concentration consists of courses in nutrition, health, and physical education, and the advisor for the Integrated Studies: Health and Fitness Concentration is Dr. JoAnn Atwell-Scrivner (jaas@spu.edu).

Secondary Teacher Certification

If you plan to seek Secondary (junior or senior high school) Teacher Certification and obtain a Washington state teaching endorsement in health and fitness, you must complete a minimum 45 credits in Physical Education to obtain your original/first endorsement or a minimum 24 credits in Physical Education to obtain a supporting/second endorsement.

See Certification Requirements in School of Education for more information. Advisor Dr. JoAnn Atwell-Scrivner can be contacted at jaas@spu.edu.