The Fitness/Wellness curriculum emphasizes the short and long term effects of exercise in both health and disease. Students are taught the physiological bases of exercise in disease prevention and the role of exercise in rehabilitation from disease. Graduates are prepared for employment in corporate or private exercise facilities, hospital-based rehabilitation facilities, and as personal trainers..
Graduates from this task are prepared not only for graduate school in exercise physiology, but also for professional training in health-related fields such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, medicine, etc. Upon receiving a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology with a specialization in Exercise Physiology, graduates also are prepared for employment as exercise specialists in hospital, corporate, private or state agencies.
Degree Requirements
Please view the UF catalog for up-to-date degree requirements.
Admission Criteria
In order to pursue a specialization in fitness/wellness, you must have maintained a 2.0 or higher overall GPA. To be competitive within the applicant pool, a 3.0 or higher overall GPA is recommended.
You must have completed the following course work with a grade of C or better and a GPA of 2.8 or higher.
Applied Human Anatomy with lab and Applied Human Physiology with lab is not a direct equivalence to Anatomy and Physiology I and II. One sequence or the other must be completed. Mixing and matching between sequences is not recognized by APK.
General Psychology may be titled Introduction to Psychology. Public Speaking may have a different title, however, Oral Interpretations is not an acceptable substitute.