Certificates That Will Prepare You to Enrich Community Health
The Department of Health and Human Performance at Fort Hays State University provides six certificate programs that are available both on campus and online. These specialty areas will prepare you to enjoy a career where you can make an impact on the health and wellness of different groups of those around you in a variety of industries, including professional sports, health care facilities, education, performing arts and the military. And, as you begin your track to help others in their journey, our supportive faculty and staff are here to help you do the same with the hands-on engagement and positive reinforcement that will not only push you to complete your studies, but do so with high ranks.
Select Your Health and Wellness Focus
Certificate in Consumer Health
The Certificate in Consumer Health is designed to provide individuals who do not hold an undergraduate degree in a health-related profession with coursework that leads to a greater understanding of the issues related to consumer health. This combination of courses is designed to facilitate the development of a better understanding of issues related to health decisions and choices available to the individual consumer in today's society.
Certificate Program Requirements
- HHP 200 Personal Wellness (3 credit hours)
- HHP 310 Consumer Health (2 credit hours)
- HHP 314 Issues in Health Education (2 credit hours)
- HHP 320 Communicable and Emergent Disease (2 credit hours)
- HHP 400 Safety Education (2 credit hours)
- HHP 615 Issues in Nutrition Education (2 credit hours)
Required for certificate: 13 total credit hours
Certificate in Community Health
The Certificate in Community Health is designed for individuals currently working in community health or other health-related fields interested in furthering their knowledge through coursework emphasizing practical application in identifying and addressing health problems within the community.
Through coursework, participants will gain a fundamental understanding of the issues and practices contributing to health-related diseases as well as issues associated with the development and implementation of positive health programming in the community.
Certificate Requirements
- HHP 310 Consumer Health (3 credit hours)
- HHP 314 Issues in the Health Education (2 credit hours)
- HHP 320 Communicable and Emergent Disease (2 credit hours)
- HHP 610 Global Health (3 credit hours)
- HHP 618 Environmental Health (3 credit hours)
- HHP 620 Epidemiology in Public Health (3 credit hours)
Required for Certificate: 15 total credit hours
Certificate in Healthy Aging
The Certificate in Healthy Aging is designed for individuals who are currently working in health-related fields or toward an allied health-related degree and are interested in developing a knowledge base related to healthy aging.
Through coursework, participants will gain a fundamental understanding of processes and changes involved in aging, influence of lifestyle choices on aging and universal problems associated with health care decisions.
Certificate Requirements:
- HHP 605 Introduction to Gerontology (3 credit hours)
- HHP 612 Physiology of Aging (3 credit hours)
- HHP 613 Issues in Aging (2 credit hours)
- HHP 617 Nutrition and Aging ( 3 credit hours)
- HHP 619 Exercise Testing & Prescription for Elderly (3 credit hours)
Required for Certificate: 14 total credit hours
Certificate in Community Health Promotion (Graduate level only)
The Certificate in Community Health Promotion is designed for individuals with a bachelor's degree who are currently working in community health or other health-related fields and are interested in developing a knowledge base related to health promotion programming.
Through course work, participants will gain a fundamental understanding of issues involved in health planning and promotion. This program prepares the participant to assess, develop, implement and evaluate community health and wellness programming.
Certificate Program Requirements
- HHP 633 Assessment and Planning in Health and Human Performance (3 credit hours)
- HHP 811 Health Promotion Programming (3 credit hours)
- HHP 812 Nutrition for Health and Fitness (3 credit hours)
- HHP 855 Legal Issues in Health and Human Performance (3 credit hours)
Required for Certificate: 12 total credit hours
Coaching Certificate (On campus only)
On Campus: 15 Credit Hours
The Coaching Certificate provides teachers and future coaches the course work necessary to develop a broad knowledge base and skills required in the coaching profession. The program offers an integrated series of courses that prepares individuals to become successful coaches at a variety of competitive levels.
Certificate Program Requirements
- HHP 220 Responding to Emergencies (3 credit hours)
- HHP 280 Care and Prevention of Exercise and Sport Injuries (3 credit hours)
- HHP 290 Introduction to Coaching w/ASEP Certification (2 credit hours)
- HHP 380 Techniques of Officiating (3 credit hours)
- Two of the following: (4 credit hours)
- HHP 350 Coaching of Basketball (2 credit hours)
- HHP 351 Coaching of Football (2 credit hours)
- HHP 352 Coaching of Track and Field (2 credit hours)
- HHP 353 Coaching of Wrestling (2 credit hours)
- HHP 354 Coaching of Baseball and Softball (2 credit hours)
- HHP 355 Coaching of Volleyball (2 credit hours)
Certificate in Massage Therapy
The Certificate in Massage Therapy is for students seeking to add a certificate to an existing degree or wish to pursue a career as a massage therapist and head straight into the workforce. Students may start in either the spring or fall semester to complete the certificate in two semesters.
The 500-hour Massage Therapy certificate program is presented in a hybrid format and completed in two semesters to allow traditional on-campus students and virtual, adult students to fit the curriculum into their schedules. Core theory classes are offered online, through FHSU Online, and clinical experiences are offered in traditional format on campus, Saturday and Sunday, twice monthly.
Although Kansas does not require a massage therapist to hold a license, we created the curriculum to meet national standards. Upon successful completion of the program, a student is eligible to practice the art of professional massage therapy and sit for a National Certification Exam.
Certificate Program Requirements
First Semester
MTP 100 Basic Massage Techniques (2 credit hours) on campus
MTP 102 VA Fiscal Management and Ethical Practices (2 credit hours) Virtual
MTP 104 VA Structural Anatomy for Massage Therapy (2 credit hours) Virtual
MTP 106 VA Structure and Function of the Body I for MT (2 credit hours) Virtual
MTP 108 Massage Lab I (4 credit hours) on campus
MTP 110 Massage Clinic I (2 credit hours) on campus
Second Semester
MTP 120 Advanced Massage Techniques (2 credit hours) on campus
MTP 122 VA Pathophysiology for Massage Therapy (3 credit hours) Virtual
MTP 124 VA Functional Kinesiology for Massage Therapy (2 credit hours) Virtual
MTP 126 VA Structure and Function of the Body II for MT (2 credit hours) Virtual
MTP 128 Massage Lab II (4 credit hours) on campus
MTP 130 Massage Clinic II (2 credit hours) on campus
MTP 150 Externship in Massage Therapy (3 credit hours) on campus
Required for Certificate: 32 total credit hours