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Our mission is to provide broad theory-based foundations which incorporate laboratory and field-based learning opportunities resulting in real-world experience, training, interprofessional education, and mentoring.  Our diverse students develop skills that promote healthy lifestyles and fitness.  Students graduate ready to seek employment or pursue advanced education in fields of health sciences, human movement, or related professions.  Graduates are ethical and productive contributors to the health and well-being of their communities.

Program Goals: (goals that align with and help us achieve the mission and Student Learning Outcomes)

1. Provide coursework that prepares students to effectively work in careers with diverse populations and cultures, and that adequately prepares students for advanced education in a dynamically changing health science and human movement community.
2. Use relevant and best practice pedagogy, activities and assessments which connect students to the workforce/community.
3. Engage in the use of current technologies in preparing students for the health and human movement related needs of the future.
4. Expose students to contemporary ethics and cultural issues they will encounter in the health science and human movement work force.
5. Serve the Pueblo community and Southeastern Colorado through connections to the program curriculum, field-based courses and internships, and other scholarly connections.
6. Develop and produce scholarship, grants, and research projects related to health sciences and human movement.

Our diverse students will have the knowledge and skills necessary to seek employment or pursue advanced education in fields of:

Graduates will be prepared to contribute to the health and well-being of their communities and beyond. 

The School will provide students with a broad-based theoretical foundation supported by laboratory and field experiences that allow individual observations, inferences, and hands-on mastery of skills related to the promotion of healthy lifestyles that allow individual observations, inferences, and hands-on mastery of skills related to the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

This mission is accomplished by creating effective professional learning opportunities based on the following conceptual hierarchy of learning skills:

• Information Retrieval
• Conceptual Understanding
• Information Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Development of Relevant Skill
• Practical Application of Ideas

In so doing we prepare student to become productive, accountable, ethical, and responsible professionals.