Health and Human Performance

Want to learn how to coordinate an adventure education program for at-risk youth? Be an athletic trainer for a professional sports team? Manage that hot new fitness club? Be a hockey coach, health or physical education teacher?

Plymouth State's Department of Health and Human Performance is a dynamic, growing department dedicated to helping you realize your dreams, whatever they may be. 

As a health and human performance major you'll experience:

  • Degrees in athletic training, health education, physical education and adventure education, with options in teacher certification, health promotion, applied health fitness and exercise physiology
  • Minors in health, adventure education and coaching
  • A dedicated faculty who are respected leaders in their field
  • Field-based programs such as the Adventure Education Immersion Semester, four-semester athletic training clinical rotation, internships, teaching placements and other practical opportunities
  • The state-of-the-art Human Performance Laboratory
  • Opportunities for collaborative research with faculty and other students