What You’ll Learn 

The Health Promotion degree program prepares educators and advocates for health who are knowledgeable about the best practices for fostering healthier choices in various settings.  

The curriculum has two broad components. In your core courses, you’ll acquire foundational knowledge in human anatomy and physiology, psychology, health, and approaches to health education and promotion.  

You’ll then select a concentration to continue your training and add specialized knowledge for your chosen context. The Community Health Concentration is focused on assessing and creating programming for a community’s health needs. The School Health Concentration will prepare you to be a health education teacher in pre-K through 12th-grade classrooms, including satisfying requirements for state licensure.  

Outside the Classroom, In the Community 

During the program, you’ll gain hands-on experience putting your skills to work in career-related settings.  

For the Community Health Concentration, that may mean an internship at a community health center or other social services organization. Recent students have served with COVID response coordinators, the Castleton Campus Fitness Center, the Castleton Campus Wellness Center, Rutland Community Health, Boys and Girls Clubs, and Prevent Child Abuse Vermont.   

If you are in the School Health Concentration, your training will include extensive experience in the classroom, including a full semester of supervised student teaching.  

Certifications

The Community Health Concentration will give you the preparation you need to confidently take the Community Health Education Specialist (CHES) exam and satisfies the education component required for certification.