Become a Health Care Professional with a Degree in Health Promotion & Sciences from St. Francis College
Are you interested in health care and well being? Do you want to help others live healthy lives? Do you enjoy being part of a team? With a degree in Health Promotion & Sciences from St. Francis College, you can do all this and more.
Health Promotion is the pursuit of wellbeing through habits like good nutrition, fitness and exercise, stress management, and leisure activities. More than just moderating or eliminating potentially risky behavior, health promotion emphasizes personal decisions and behavioral choices.
Through instruction in needs assessment, program planning, and implementation and evaluation, Health Promotion majors at St. Francis College gain the skills they need to help others live long and healthy lives. The “free electives” flexibility of the program allows students to customize their studies or enhance their Health Promotion & Sciences degree with other minors and majors like Psychology or Sports Management, better preparing them for graduate school or their career.
In addition to what they learn in the classroom, students can gain hands-on experience through internships at organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the St. Francis Athletic Training Department, Rivington House (which provides long term care for people with AIDS), Central Brooklyn Medical Group, Methodist Hospital, and research positions at the Long Island University Psychology Department.
While many Health Promotion majors go on to graduate or professional studies in public health, community health, nutrition, physical therapy, nursing, and also learn to be physician’s assistants, others find careers in fitness centers, community health agencies, hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, schools, nursing homes, and more
Start your career off right with a degree in Health Promotion & Sciences from St. Francis College.