2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Jul 27, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Health and Human Kinetics, Sports and Exercise Management Concentration, Major


Professor Martin
Associate Professors Busch, Fink 
Assistant Professor Nix

Students may choose this area of concentration to prepare for opportunities in a variety of fields that combine physical/sport activity with other areas such as sport management, marketing, and retail fitness.

Learning Objectives


Students in HHK will demonstrate increased competency in the following areas as they progress across the departmental curriculum.

1.  Students will demonstrate a competency in current, evidence-based content in the field.

2.  Students will demonstrate the ability to apply this content to their own health, movement, nutrition, and/or sport practices.

3.  Students will effectively use content and theoretical foundations to predict and plan experiences for a range of populations in health, movement, nutrition, and/or sport.

4.  Students will effectively integrate theoretical foundations and applied experiences in health, movement, nutrition, and/or sport to take a critical stand on pertinent issues in the field.

5.  Students will demonstrate an ability to apply content, theory, and experiences in a complex and varying environment, to assess outcomes, and then reflect on and improve their practices in these environments. 

6.  Students will use their growth in the field in leadership positions where they connect with and serve a range of communities.

7.  Students will demonstrate an ability to critically reflect on their growth across the HHK curriculum.

Required Courses


Students interested in completing this concentration must have a combined GPA of 2.67 or better in HHK 114  or HHK 163 , HHK 200 2 , ECON 110  (C- or better), and BUS 120  (C- or better) and obtain department approval before proceeding. Students with this concentration cannot earn a Business minor in the OWU Department of Economics and Business.

A minimum of 14 total course units are required for this concentration. Please note that some courses may have prerequisites that are not indicated below.