Department of Health & Physical Education
Chairman: Robert Wilson III
Administrative Assistant: Ms. Jacci Davis
Location: Forbes Arena, Suite 266
Phone: (404) 215-2668
The Department of Health & Physical Education at Morehouse College stands prepared to ensure that every student who has chosen Health and Physical Education as a major will find our faculty dedicated to helping them accomplish their career goals. Our students will have opportunities to make application of course work learned, through their exposure to a service learning experience. This experience will provide each student with real life situations, as they relate to their chosen profession.
Goals and Objectives
The aims and objectives of the Department of Health and Physical Education are to recruit, teach, and develop teaching, research, administrative, and sports coaching personnel in health and physical education, related health, and paramedical areas. It also emphasizes the development of desirable leadership and citizenship traits.
Health and Physical Education represents fundamental principles by which we operate in every facet of our daily lives. Current major reports indicate that African-Americans are contacting and dying largely from preventable or correctable conditions. The prevalence of these conditions may be due to the lack of education and participation in health and fitness activities. The Health and Physical Education Department seeks to prepare professionals to address these areas. Students who enroll in Health and Physical Education have several career choices. These include: graduate and professional schools, teaching, the health & fitness industry, recreation and leisure facilities, coaching, research, exercise and fitness consultant, fitness director, aquatics director, etc. To accomplish these goals, the Department expects students to have at the time of graduation attained the following:
1. The ability to make reasoned value judgments;
2. The ability to analyze and synthesize facts;
3. The ability to engage in independent scholarly endeavors;
4. The ability to understand and coordinate knowledge from other disciplines;
5. A scholarly, informed understanding of the cultural heritage of African –American peoples;
6. A knowledge and appreciation of cultures other than one's own;
7. A demonstrated capacity and ability to speak as well as write cogently, effectively, and correctly;
8. A commitment to community service.
The physical education majors have access to an intramural sports program designed to supplement the curricular activities of physical education and to help realize physical education objectives. The intramural sports program (under the auspices of Student Affairs) offers opportunities for specialization in preferred activities to assist the physical education major in practical application of knowledge. It is a voluntary laboratory program for theory to practice experiences.
