Health and Human Performance, MS

Health Promotion

Option in Health Promotion

The MS in Health and Human Performance, option in Health Promotion, prepares you to address lifestyle and health issues across community settings using a behavioral social science lens. These lifestyle and health issues may include nutrition, physical activity, substance abuse, tobacco use, chronic disease, HIV/STI’s, diabetes and pregnancy. While our students enter our program from a variety of academic backgrounds such as public health; psychology; sociology; marketing; exercise physiology; political science; and biology, they all graduate with the same goal of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health.

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Curriculum

This 36-credit hour program offers a thesis or non-thesis option and includes elective hours that allow you to develop a specific concentration area of expertise.

Required Classes:

Foundations of Public Health Education and Promotion
Health Behavior Theory and Practice for Public Health
Designing Public Health Programs
Implementation and Evaluation of Public Health Programs

Potential Electives:

Psychological Aspects of Health
Environmental Health
Sexuality & Health
Advanced Epidemiology
Cultural Issues in Health
Nutrition & Physical Activity in Aging

Advanced Community Nutrition
Theories of Aging
Community & Family
Introduction to Counseling Practice
Multicultural Counseling
Counseling & Sexuality

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Research and Faculty

Our mission is to perform high-quality research that is both innovative and impactful. You will have the opportunity to participate in faculty-led research within the areas of disease prevention, behavioral interventions, fitness performance, overall wellness and public health.

Faculty research expertise:

Health communication and health literacy
Development, evaluation and dissemination of physical activity interventions
HIV interventions in high-risk, African American men
Psychological factors associated with exercise adherence
Sexual health, consent and social media

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Admissions

Applications to the program are accepted on a rolling basis. Students are strongly encouraged to apply no later than six weeks prior to the start of the semester.

To apply to the MS Health and Human Performance, option in Health Promotion program, complete the following:

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Graduate College application
Transcripts from all previously attended institutions (3.0 minimum undergraduate GPA required)
Current resume/vita
Three letters of recommendation
Official GRE or MAT scores (within the last five years)

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Cost & Assistance

Full-time students may be eligible for graduate assistantships, either as a Graduate Research Assistant (GTA) or a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA). These positions are highly competitive and typically awarded in the spring semester. Those granted assistantships are eligible to receive a tuition waiver, health insurance and stipend. Please contact kelley.rhoads@okstate.edu for more information.

Currently enrolled students are also eligible for scholarships offered through the College of Education and Human Sciences.

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