Kathie Garbe
Department Chair

Elise H. Henshaw  (ehenshaw@unca.edu)
Administrative Assistant & Contact Person

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The Department of Health and Wellness offers diverse and flexible programs designed to help students live healthier, more balanced and meaningful lives. The curriculum for the major (Bachelor of Science degree) or minor in Health and Wellness Promotion emphasizes multi-level programs aimed at the promotion of wellness throughout a lifetime. Students may pursue careers in worksite wellness, hospital-based wellness programs, community health centers, retirement and nursing home wellness programs, commercial and not for-profit health, fitness, and recreation centers, and other related areas. Students may also choose to major in Health and Wellness Promotion and complete the K-6 teaching licensure program, in preparation to teach health in elementary schools. Students who receive a B.S. with a major in Health and Wellness Promotion may choose to pursue graduate and/or professional studies in areas such as Health Promotion, Exercise Physiology, Nutrition, Health Education, Gerontology, Public Health, Medicine. Students interested in graduate school should be aware of additional course work required for admission to these programs that may not be required for the Health and Wellness Promotion major.

The Health and Wellness Department also offers minors in Health and Wellness Promotion and Dance, and offers a Pre-Health Professions Program. The minor in Dance provides students the opportunity to acquire and refine the technical skills necessary to realize the broadest possible range of movement options, develop their own capacity for expression through dance, understand the connections among the various fields of study involved with dance production, acquire experience as teachers, performers and choreographers and prepare for advanced study in Dance and other related arts. The Pre-Health Professions Program provides opportunities for students to learn more about the broad array of health care career options and guides them in successfully preparing for graduate or professional program admissions. Pre-medicine students and those interested in allied health careers (pre-health professions) may major in any discipline. They should complete the Pre-Health Professions program with assistance from their advisor or from an advisor in the Department of Health and Wellness.

Faculty and Staff
Kathie Garbe, Ph.D., CHES
Associate Professor and Chair
WHC 222
828-251-6514
kgarbe@unca.edu

Amy Lanou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
WHC 226
828-250-2317
alanou@unca.edu

Keith Ray, Ed.D
Associate Professor
Zageir Hall 139
828-251-6123
kray@unca.edu

Jason Wingert, Ph.D., P.T.
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Human Performance Laboratory
WHC 227
828-250-2341
jwingert@unca.edu

Connie Schrader, M.A.
Director, UNCA Dance Program
Biofeedback and Stress Lab Director
208 Justice Gymnasium
828-232-5652
cschrade@unca.edu

Brad Deweese, M.H.S.
Lecturer, Strength Coach, and Co-Director of the Human Performance Laboratory
116 Justice Gymnasium
828-232-5657
bdeweese@unca.edu

Kelley Wolfe, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Zageir Hall 103
828-251-6118
kwolfe@unca.edu

Elise Henshaw
Administrative Assistant
WHC 219
828-251-6513
ehenshaw@unca.edu

For more information
Requirements for all programs will be listed in the 2009-2010 edition of the UNC Asheville Catalog.