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The BS in Human Performance and Wellness Management (HPWM) prepares students for careers in corporate, private, and commercial fitness, including strength and conditioning, high-performance athletic coaching, and fitness entrepreneurship. Future job prospects include strength and conditioning coach 1 , performance sports specialist, sports scientist, certified personal trainer 1 , wellness coordinator, and other fitness specializations. This degree also prepares you to continue into graduate school programs such as a master's or doctorate in Occupational Therapy, master's in Sport and Human Performance, Applied Sport Sciences, and other Kinesiology graduate programs.

The mission of the Department of Kinesiology is to advance students’ understanding of relationships among movement, exercise, and skill that occur in the contexts of development, learning, rehabilitation, production, training and research. The degree programs in the Department of Kinesiology seek to prepare future professionals for movement-related fields such as athletic training, physical education, sport coaching, sport management, athletic performance coaching and training, sport science, performance sport specialization training, fitness training, researching, medical and equipment sales specific to exercise science, and other careers in the fitness and wellness industries and allied health.  Learning occurs through the study of movement, injury prevention, injury rehabilitation, exercise processes, and/or sport industry settings within a framework that emphasizes the clinical and practical implications of theory and research.