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Health Science

Health science prepares students to be professional advocates of physical and mental well-being in a variety of environments. Health science majors:

  1. teach children, students, business people, and the community about promotion of health and wellness
  2. pursue careers in education
  3. direct health agencies and consult in the fields of workplace and community health
  4. go into pharmaceutical sales
  5. seek admission to medical schools
  6. pursue graduate research degrees in order to work as professors in colleges and universities.

Kinesiology

Kinesiology graduates can choose from several career options including:

  1. personal fitness trainers
  2. corporate programmers
  3. pharmaceutical sales representatives
  4. youth program directors
  5. instructors in dance, gymnastics and martial arts.
  6. Graduates who complete the requirements for the Master of Arts in Teaching degree become physical education teachers and coaches in public and private schools.
  7. Kinesiology graduates can also go on to allied health programs that lead to careers in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and cardiac rehabilitation.
  8. Other kinesiology graduates seek admission to medical schools to become physicians while others pursue graduate research degrees in order to work as professors in colleges and universities.

Recreation

Many recreation graduates choose careers as:

  1. outdoor leaders
  2. park rangers
  3. youth sports coordinators
  4. resort recreation specialists
  5. golf course managers
  6. community center directors
  7. therapeutic recreation specialists.

With society's renewed interest in health and wellness, recreation graduates have a wealth of professional opportunities available to them. The recreation program at the University of Arkansas is the only recreation program in the state that also offers a master's and a doctoral degree in recreation that can prepare students for management positions in state or federal agencies as well as for a variety of positions in colleges and universities.

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