The document provides information about a degree in Health Science. With this degree, one would earn the credential of Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) upon passing the certification exam. The career path would be a Health Educator. Health Educators work to assist individuals and communities in making informed health decisions through disease prevention programs and health promotion initiatives. The degree program covers topics like human anatomy, public health, health communication, and health education strategies through a mix of science and health science courses.

1. Health Science

2. What will your degree say?
• BS in Health Science
If you pass your certification exam/exit
exam, what will your credentials say?
• CHES – ‘Certified Health Education Specialist’
What will your career be?
• Health Educator

3. What is Health Education?
The process of assisting individuals and
communities to make informed decisions on
matters affecting health; individual and
population-based disease prevention and
health promotion – keeping communities
safe.

4. What are the skills of the Health Educator (CHES) that
you will learn and demonstrate/perform?
• Assess individual and community needs for health education
• Plan health education strategies, interventions, and programs
• Implement health education strategies, interventions, and
programs
• Conduct evaluation and research related to health education
• Administer health education strategies, interventions, and
programs
• Serve as a health education resource specialist
• Communicate and advocate for health and health education

5. What are the pattern/concentration areas of emphasis in
Health Science?
• Community health education/worksite health
promotion/public health/epidemiology
• Healthcare administration
• Pre - Occupational therapy
• Pre - Physician assistance
• Pre - Medicine
• Pre - Nutrition

6. Coursework
Sciences:
• Human physiology
• Human Anatomy/Lab
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry/Lab
• Cell Biology
• Physics
• Other advanced sciences

7. Coursework (cont.)
Health Sciences
• Community and Public Health
• Health Science Principles
• Research Methods in Health Science
• Program Assessment and Planning
• Health Communication Methods
• Program Implementation and Evaluation
• Health Promotion Management/Marketing
• Physiological Assessment
• Global Public Health
• School Health Programs
• Worksite Health Programs
• Epidemiology
Health Education
• Substance Abuse Prevention
• Human Sexuality
• Consumer Health
• Patient Education and Clinical Health
Promotion
• Community Nutrition for Special
Populations
• Mental Health
• Environmental Health