Health & Human Kinetics: General
If you are interested in sports and movement this is the major for you. The faculty have designed this major so you can focus broadly on topics, and therefore be able to enter a work field of your choice.
Department of Health & Human Kinetics
Introduction to the Department
The Health and Human Kinetics Department has created innovative courses for each major and minor, helping you prepare to move on to diverse work environments. You will have good options for graduate school or starting a career immediately after graduation.
Department Features
- You may choose to find an internship to gain professional experiences in the area of your choice. Students have interned at NBC Sports, the New York Knicks, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Columbus Crew, the Columbus Blue Jackets, local golf courses, fitness centers, newspapers, and physical therapy clinics.
- The Health and Human Kinetics Program oversees OWU’s student-taught Cooking Matters classes. These classes teach Delaware-area participants how to prepare the food they receive from local pantries.
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Available Majors
Health & Human Kinetics: Health Promotion
A major in health promotion will prepare you for graduate study in public health, health program planning, health policy, wellness programs, community health, and dietetics, among others.
Health & Human Kinetics: Sports & Exercise Management
If you choose this track, you will be prepared to enter a career in sport management, marketing, retail, and corporate fitness.
Health & Human Kinetics: Exercise Science
If you choose to major in exercise science you will take coursework that prepares you for advanced schooling in the fields of physical therapy, exercise physiology, biomechanics, and sport and exercise psychology.
Health & Human Kinetics: Nutrition
The nutrition major prepares you to pursue careers in nutrition, dietetics, community health, health education, food justice and advocacy, food industry work, and related graduate programs.
Available Minors
Coaching Minor
Requirements
You may chose a coaching minor if you are considering working in an educational environment after graduation. This minor requires six units: HHK 140 or HHK 141; HHK 114 or HHK 231; HHK 260; HHK 286; HHK 343 or HHK 363; and HHK 383.
Sports Science Minor
Requirements
Six units: HHK 140; HHK 141; HHK 114 or 231; HHK 260; HHK 345 or HHK 352; HHK 355; and HHK 365.
Food Studies (Mentored Minor)
Requirements
Identify an OWU faculty member associated with the Food Studies minor to serve as their mentor; create a proposal, in collaboration with their mentor, to the food studies faculty contacts, outlining courses and projects that fit with their specific interests in food; and complete 5.5 units of coursework.
Christopher Fink
Associate Professor of Health & Human Kinetics
Professor Fink focuses his teaching in the general areas of health behavior and health promotion, food studies, and qualitative inquiry. In 2015, he was a delegate at the "We Feed the People" expo in Milan, Italy.
Elizabeth Nix
Assistant Professor of Nutrition
Professor Nix is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist (RDN) from Utah. She is a first year faculty member at Ohio Wesleyan University. Her graduate school work focused on behavioral interventions in college students. She plans to continue research in behavioral interventions to improve the diets of various communities, particularly low-income communities.
Jay Martin
Men's Soccer Coach and Professor of Health & Human Kinetics
Coach Martin is the winningest soccer coach in the NCAA. As a professor, he currently teaches Introduction to Sports Management and Management for Sport/Athletic Administration. In 2015, he received a $10,000 grant from the NCAA to study hazing.
Featured Event
OWU hosts National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Ohio State Conference October 5, 2019
NSCA State Conferences are an exceptional way to learn cutting-edge research and application techniques, along with breakthrough performance methods used by top professionals around the world. Come learn, participate, and network October 5 with fellow colleagues in the Ohio and Midwest region while earning CEUs. All NSCA conferences provide CSCS® and NSCA-CPT® Continuing Education Unit (CEU) opportunities.
Athletic Training
Simpson Querrey Fitness Center
Department Contact Info
Location
Edwards Gymnasium
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
P 740-368-3725
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Department Contact
Chair: Christopher Fink
Associate Professor of Health and Human Kinetics
Edwards Gymnasium 107
740-368-3768
clfink@owu.edu
Academic Departmental Assistant: Wendi Kay
Simpson Querrey Fitness Center 3
740-368-3982
wwkay@owu.edu
Associate Professor of Health and Human Kinetics
Edwards Gymnasium 107
740-368-3768
clfink@owu.edu
Academic Departmental Assistant: Wendi Kay
Simpson Querrey Fitness Center 3
740-368-3982
wwkay@owu.edu