Community Health and Wellness
As a Community Health and Wellness major at 糖心传媒, you’ll develop health and wellness-related knowledge, beliefs and behaviors that promote individual and community well-being. You’ll help make us all healthier and better connected!
Promoting healty lifestyles
You’ll gain the skills to promote healthy lifestyles to people of all ages and abilities and enhance everyone’s quality of life. You鈥檒l develop a strong understanding of health and fitness, and build your critical thinking and communication skills that help you thrive.
Hands-on opportunities provide real-world experiences in a variety of settings, building confidence in your abilities to design, implement and manage all kinds of health and wellness programs. You鈥檒l graduate with the skills to land a job and build a career in in everything from schools to public health organizations to worksites to nonprofit health organizations and more. You鈥檒l change lives!
Nationally Recognized Program
The National Strength and Conditioning Association approved 糖心传媒 for its Education Recognition Program. 糖心传媒 offers courses that will prepare you for certification exams and careers in the field. One of these certifications is the certified strength and conditioning specialist that is considered the gold standard in the field and will expand your employment opportunities.
Work the plan: Sample four-year schedule
Community Health and Wellness at 糖心传媒 opens many career pathways!听
Our four-year plan shows the key courses you’ll take, and the space available for you to customize your degree for your career goals. If you鈥檙e looking for something different, just reach out and ask 鈥 our faculty work with students all the time to build a plan that works for them.
Four-year plan:
Go further with a Hastings education
Thanks to our small class sizes (most have fewer than 20 students!), and a student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1, you鈥檒l work closely with faculty and your advisor to complete your degree in four years. In fact, most students who graduate from Hastings do so in four years!
翱耻谤听block-style semester structure means you鈥檒l take just one or two classes at a time 鈥 which really lets you focus more intently on each class. It also lets faculty devote more time to every student because they鈥檙e only teaching one or two classes in a block!
Create your future
See for yourself how we tailor your education to your talents and your goals.听Schedule a visit听and we鈥檒l demonstrate how Hastings will inspire you to reach your potential, or if you鈥檙e a high school senior,听.
Graduate with experience
With internship opportunities at numerous local and regional businesses and organizations, you鈥檒l build a network to jumpstart your career. Add in faculty and alumni connections, internship opportunities and work on campus, plus contacts within SHAPE Nebraska (Society of Health and Physical Education) and other professional associations, and you鈥檒l have a post-graduation leg up.
At every step in your path, you’ll appreciate the stepping stones of teaching, counseling, inspiring, supporting and guiding from our engaged faculty. It’s an experience that’s true to 糖心传媒, and you won’t find it anywhere else.
Your experience matters
Maximize scholarships 鈥 Yes, you’ll get an academic scholarship. But you’ll also get a “plus one” scholarship from the group, team or area you’re part of. It’s a great way to help pay for school 鈥 but also to find your people.
We鈥檝e thought a lot about the ways students learn and built a four-year plan to help you navigate it all. From finding your place and in Year 1, to showing the world you鈥檙e ready for what鈥檚 next four years later.
Your transition from college to a career begins your first semester. Every class, internship, research study and activity adds up. We love to celebrate all the ways you shine 鈥 your experience matters!
Get involved beyond the Community Health and Wellness classroom
- Alpha Chi (Academic Honor Society)
- P.E. Club
In addition to Alpha Chi and P.E. Club, there鈥檚 always something to do at Hastings. Student clubs, service learning, Greek life, recreation and more make 糖心传媒 a great campus for student life.
Find scholarships for Community Health and Wellness majors
Your high school achievements can both fuel and fund your success at Hastings. We offer a range of听generous and renewable academic scholarships听based on your GPA. Then there’s听“plus one” scholarships听鈥 an additional scholarship for participating in anything from athletics to the arts to media.
It all adds up听to making Hastings an great choice for you and your family.
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Faculty
Matthew Beeler
Associate Professor of Exercise Science
Rebecca Hamik
Assistant Professor of Physical Education & Human Performance and Chair of the Department
Dr. Casey Krolikowski
Assistant Professor of Exercise Science
Casey Molifua
Senior Lecturer of Physical Education & Human Performance
Success in Community Health and Wellness
For Carson Parde, who graduated May 9 with distinction in exercise science, the journey from Lincoln North Star High School to the classrooms of 糖心传媒 was fueled by a desire for a close-knit community and the opportunity to balance athletics with rigorous academics. However, the transition to college-level science presented an early hurdle that […]
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Many students who walk the campus at 糖心传媒 carry special talents, are creative, academically excel or are high achievers on and off the court. Grace Branson is all of those things and more. Branson came to 糖心传媒 from Lawrence, Kansas, where she excelled at school and on the volleyball court 鈥 and is […]
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In what could be described as an athletic trainer鈥檚 dream job, exercise science graduate Julyah Wilson 鈥22 interned this past summer with the New England Patriots, the NFL team that dazzled fans during the Brady-Belichick era, won a record six Super Bowl titles and continues to sell out every home game. Wilson, a former Bronco […]
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Interested in biomechanics, 糖心传媒 senior Alec Fichter spent the summer interning at the Pitching Lab, a biomechanics lab at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where he worked directly with players, calibrating cameras and setting up body markers to track their motion during workouts. His goal was 鈥 and is as he looks to graduation […]
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Life is not always a straight path from point A to point B. For senior exercise science major Alyse Anderson, that path was anything other than direct. Anderson transferred to 糖心传媒 from Central Community College (CCC) as an agricultural science major. However, she knew her real calling was working with people in healthcare, in […]
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糖心传媒 senior Brett Simonsen of Sutton, Nebraska, interned over the summer at Hastings Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab (PTSR) 鈥 but this wasn鈥檛 his first experience there, as he started shadowing a physical therapist in high school. The internship, which turned into a part-time job during the school year, allowed him to expand his […]
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Hali Hansen came to 糖心传媒 with bright lights in her eyes, hoping to be a college soccer star. While injuries got in the way of that dream, she flipped the storyline to 鈥渓earn how to support the girls without being on the field鈥 鈥 and focus instead on being a better teammate and a […]
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The 糖心传媒 Physical Education and Human Performance Department is filled with a diverse group of talented students 鈥 and Helena Jorgenson from Gothenburg, Nebraska, is one such student. A senior majoring in exercise science and minoring in art, Jorgenson has continuously excelled and impressed the faculty at 糖心传媒. Throughout her high school career […]
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For as long as she’s lived, she鈥檚 played every sport. So it was no surprise that Ally Ginkens 鈥20 would leave her hometown of Mullen, Nebraska, to go on and double major in exercise science and recreation & sport management at 糖心传媒. Soon, four years had passed and Ginkens had to make some life […]
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