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Health and Human Performance

Welcome to the Department of Health and Human Performance

The Department of Health and Human Performance offers a major in Physical Education and Health.

The Physical Education and Health curriculum is designed to prepare prospective K-12 teachers to be active and thoughtful practitioners in a community of learners. Courses are aimed at evaluating, improving and applying skills through knowledge and inquiry in a professional manner.

Department News

Elon chosen for project on public health, liberal education
Health & Human Performance faculty, students, take part in research, scholarship and leadership activities
Senior Lecturer Resa Walch, Associate Professor Carol Smith, Assistant Professor Amy Stringer and several students participated in engaged learning and service activities during the fall semester and winter term.
Faculty recognized for campus-wide prevention efforts
Dr. Judy Esposito, associate professor of human service studies and co-chair of the Interdisciplinary Committee on Course-Based Alcohol Education, and Resa Walch, senior lecturer in Health and Human Performance and Faculty Fellow for Substance Education, sponsored an event on May 1 for faculty participants in the Faculty As Partners in Prevention campus-wide initiative.
Profesor Emerita Janie Brown featured in Thomasville (N.C.) Times
Health and Human Performance Professor Emerita Janie Brown, who now serves as president of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, was recently featured by the Thomasville (N.C.) Times.To read the story, click here.
CHAMPS program matches children with Elon mentors
A wellness program for local fourth and fifth graders concluded Tuesday at the Koury Athletic Center when two dozen boys learned about physical fitness and setting goals from their Elon University mentors. And if Elon junior Brett Brawerman has his way, the CHAMPS program – short for “Coaching Health and Mentoring Positive Students” – will be something colleges elsewhere can replicate.

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