Earn Your Degree in on-campus in La Grande, Oregon or Online at Eastern Oregon University.
Prepare to competently promote wellness, sport, recreation, and exercise in school, community, and other professional settings.
- Three Professional Concentrations: Specialize your education directly in Exercise Science, Community Health, or Physical Education to align with your career dreams.
- Applied Capstone Experiences: Gain practical, real-world skills through dedicated project-based learning and clinical capstones.
- Elite Post-Graduation Pathways: Build a rigorous scientific foundation to transition directly into professional graduate programs in Physical Therapy, Medicine, Nursing, and Chiropractic.
Are you passionate about healthy living, physical activity, and making a lasting difference in the lives of others?
- Interactive and Applied Learning: Put theory into immediate practice. Every student completes a robust senior capstone project to address active wellness challenges in real-world environments.
- Flexible Concentration Pathways: Customize your degree. Select from three distinct tracks—Exercise Science, Community Health, or Physical Education—to match your specific professional goals.
- Comprehensive Academic Preparation: Establish an elite scientific foundation that directly prepares you for national certifications (like CHES, CSCS, or Personal Training) or competitive graduate admissions.
Unrivaled Support from Enrollment to Graduation
As an online or on campus student at Eastern Oregon University, you will have comprehensive access to academic resources designed to support your journey.
Academic Advising: You will be paired with a dedicated program advisor who helps you navigate credit transfers, course selections, and graduation planning.
Generous Transfer Policies: Maximize your prior coursework. EOU allows up to 135 transfer credits from regionally accredited institutions, helping you graduate and start your career faster.
Core competencies
Students must acquire and demonstrate a comprehensive competency in the foundational academic content of health and human performance. This is achieved by successfully mastering all the required HHP coursework specific to your selected degree concentration.
Students will develop and demonstrate discipline- and concentration-specific communication methods. This competency is reinforced through the successful completion of at least two designated University Writing Requirement (UWR) upper-division courses within the program.
Students will learn to apply fundamental discipline concepts directly to practical community health and exercise-based problems. This critical problem-solving capability is heavily integrated into key coursework.
Students will demonstrate the discipline-specific techniques required to ask, answer, and understand critical questions surrounding health, wellness, and human performance. This research-focused competency is developed in courses and advanced research capstones.
As a cumulative measure of your readiness for the field, students must demonstrate a thorough understanding of health and human performance concepts and the ability to communicate the essential elements of the discipline. This is achieved through a culminating program capstone course.
LEARNING OPTIONS & DELIVERY MODALITIES
In-Person (La Grande)
The Mountaineer Experience
Experience an engaging, student-centered campus community in the beautiful Grande Ronde Valley. Perfect for students seeking traditional classroom debates and face-to-face peer groups.
Highlights: • Small class sizes with personalized instructor feedback.• Direct access to campus libraries, research labs, and regional networks.• Participate in EOU’s on-campus clubs and quarterly speaker events.
Online
Uncompromising Flexibility
Highlights: • No on-campus requirements — study where and when it’s best for you.• Identical curriculum, assignments, and credentialing as on-campus programs.• Full access to EOU’s online advising, library resources, and tutoring centers.
Maximize Your Prior Credits
Turn your previous college coursework or Associate degree into a powerful, career-accelerating bachelor’s degree at EOU.
Highlights: • Flexible transfer policy — EOU accepts up to 135 credits from other institutions. • Seamlessly integrate previous credits. • Personalized advisor support to build a fast-track completion plan. • Accelerate your timeline to save money and enter the job market sooner.
Learn from Experienced Practicioners
At EOU, your instructors are more than just lecturers, they are active researchers, clinical practitioners, and passionate mentors dedicated to helping you become a leader in the wellness field. Maintaining small class sizes, we foster a close-knit learning community where you can collaborate directly on research, seek career guidance, and build long-lasting professional connections.
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Ready to Lead the Movement Toward a Healthier Future?
Join the EOU family and start building a meaningful, scientific career in health and human performance.
