Tim Boffeli, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
I enjoy being there in that magic moment of time when life makes more sense. This sense is what teaching and learning is all about and will last for more than my lifetime.
Health, Wellness & Behavioral Sciences
Bachelor of Arts | Bachelor of Science
The mission of Clarke University’s Health, Wellness & Behavioral Sciences (HWBS) major is to support and engage students in an academically rigorous program that promotes student’s personal and intellectual growth. Students will be prepared to responsibly contribute to society and utilize self-reflection in self-optimizing processes in order to guide personal success, health, wellness, and behavioral changes and through the empathetic process to guide others in their own self-actualization.
Students in the HWBS major must choose either the Life Coach Counseling emphasis or a separate minor (except Psychology).
The emphasis in Life Coach Counseling provides additional preparation for students to successfully impact the person to affect multi-categorical change in the areas of financial, emotional, social, psychological, physical health, and well-being. This emphasis is intentionally broad-based to prepare students to engage persons in holistic health and wellness. These graduates will have the knowledge, skills, and talents to enter into a person’s life, assess needed changes, and assist in carrying out positive change.
Graduates with a BS in HWBS are positioned to continue to a graduate program such as athletic training or physical therapy. Graduates of either the BA or the BS could enter a number of employment fields including health education, personal training, social work, clinical psychology, or behavioral analyst.
Program Details
Health, Wellness & Behavioral Sciences majors:
- Develop critical skills and expertise to promote behavioral changes
- Focus on the many factors that influence health and well-being
- Learn how behaviors, thoughts, social interactions, and environment can affect physical and mental health, chronic disease, and relationships across the lifespan
- Gain marketable and valued skills to understand, measure, change, and influence individual and populations to become healthier and attain higher qualities of life
- Must minimally complete either an emphasis or a minor from another discipline. (The minor could be from any program except Psychology.)
Admission to Clarke University
Applicants are considered on an individual basis. Apply to Clarke today to begin your journey.
Program in Pictures
Dee Higgins, Ph.D.
Professor of Athletic Training
Every patient and every student is inherently good, is worth time, effort and care, and deserves your best efforts.
Brenna Burgart
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Teaching to me is encouraging people to become lifelong learners, and to stay one yourself! Keeping an open mind and being willing to update your way of thinking will open you up to so many opportunities!
There’s more to college than going to class.
The Classroom and Beyond
Study Abroad
Clarke University offers several faculty-sponsored study abroad experiences to destinations such as Spain, Scotland, Ireland, and Japan. Study abroad trips encourage you to experience different cultures, broaden your mind, and discover your own passions.
Internships
You will learn by observation and participation at off-campus laboratories or field settings through internships and experiential education ventures. Internships often facilitate entrance into the job market and are highly recommended for acceptance into some graduate programs.
The Clarke Compass
Through your Clarke experience, you will be involved in many different activities that will guide you on your college journey. By your senior year, you will have a résumé of all your awesome involvements packaged and ready for your first interview.
Clubs & Organizations
Life at Clarke is living traditions, being proud, participating in the campus community, and being an active member of our greater community.
16
%
Job Growth
Graduates of the behavioral sciences will see a 16% increase in job growth by 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
1:1
Student to Faculty Ratio
Your major and capstone work will develop from one-on-one interactions with Clarke faculty.
2018
Inaugural Year
The first year students at Clarke could pursue a Health, Wellness, & Behavioral Sciences.
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