2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Health and Physical Education, B.S.


Program Requirements

Core Requirements: Minimum of 38-40 credits in the core curriculum required of all students. Students who enter as first-time freshmen must take an entering freshman and rising junior assessment to complete core requirements.

Program Admission Requirements: See Admission Requirements for Teacher Education Majors on College of Education catalog page.

Effective Summer 2024, all undergraduate candidates seeking admission into Teacher Education and candidates applying for the LO program must adhere to new Clinical Experience admission requirements. To be admitted into Clinical Experience, candidates must complete the Clinical Experience application, maintain a GPA of a 2.7 or higher, and pass (scores are set by the NC Board of Education) all required licensure examinations for the area in which they are seeking their initial teaching license. Candidates who do not meet these requirements will not be permitted to enroll in Clinical Experience / Student Teaching. 

Graduation Requirements: All graduating seniors are required to complete the Graduating Senior Assessment after completing 90 or more semester hours (including credit by examination), but not later than the graduation semester.

University College Core Curriculum: 39 Credits


Transitional Studies - University Studies: 2 Credits


UNIV 101 -UNIV 102  required for all first time students; UNIV 110  required for transfer students with fewer than 30 transfer credits. Students do not earn credit if requirement is waived. UNIV 111  may be required based on academic performance.

Select one option from the following:

Communication Skills - Written Communication: 3 Credits


Communication Skills - Oral Communication: 3 Credits


Select one from the following: 

Information Literacy: 3 Credits


Reasoning Skills - Critical Thinking: 3 Credits


Not required for students with 60+ transfer credits. Students do not earn credit if requirement is waived.

Scientific Literacy - Natural Sciences: 8 Credits


At least one natural science class must include its associated lab. Some majors require two lab sciences, increasing requirement to 8 credits.

Select from the following:

Program Requirements: 81 Credits


Total Credit Hours: 120