Health and Community Wellness, B.S.

2025-2026 Undergraduate Revise Program Request

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    **CHANGES TO PROGRAMS MUST BE SUBMITTED 9-12 MONTHS IN ADVANCE OF THE DESIRED EFFECTIVE TERM*

  • Modifications (Check all that apply)*
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    Please be sure all fields are filled out correctly prior to launch. If a routing error is made it can result in the proposal being rejected and a new proposal will be required. 

    Please refer to this document for additional information: UWG Shared Governance Procedures for Modifications to Academic Degrees and Programs.

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  • School/ Department*
  • Is this a School of Nursing or School of Communication, Film and Media course?*
    Is this a College of Education Program?*
  • Is the addition/change related to core, honors, or XIDS courses*
  • Is this an Accelerated Bachelors to Masters program related proposal?*
  • Is this a Senate ACTION or INFORMATION item? Please refer to the link below.*

  • List of Faculty Senate Action and Information Items

Program Information
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  • Select Program below, unless revising an Acalog Shared Core.

  • Type of Program*
  • If other, please identify.

  • IMPORTANT: To remove a course from the program, you must first remove it from the curriculum schema. Then, you can delete it from the list of courses.

    NOTE: The fields below are imported from the catalog. Edits must be made in these fields in order for the changes to be updated correctly in the catalog. 

    • Program Name
    • Program Description
  • Program Name*
    Health and Community Wellness, B.S.
    Health and Community Wellness, B.S.
  • Program ID - DO NOT EDIT*
    4249
    4249
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  • Program Code - DO NOT EDIT
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  • Program Type*
  • Degree Type*
  • Program Description*
    The mission of the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Health & Community Wellness is to provide professional candidates for employment in a variety of settings to promote health and wellness. Through program courses and experiential learning experiences, students will be prepared to help people, organizations, and communities change lifestyle behaviors to minimize health risks and improve overall wellness. Students have the option to choose the General Track or one of four professional tracks. Professional track options include: Athletic Training, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, or Dietetics. These tracks serve as a pathway and will prepare students to apply for a masters or doctoral program in the designated field of study. Students must maintain a minimum of 3.0 GPA for good academic standing on any of the four professional tracks in this program. Students choosing the General Track will have the option of completing fifteen (15) credit hours of electives or can select an approved minor. Students must maintain a minimum of 2.0 GPA for good academic standing on the General Track in this program. The Accelerated Bachelors to Masters Degree Pathway in Health and Wellness at the University of West Georgia allows outstanding students who major in Health and Community Wellness to begin earning credit toward a graduate degree while completing their Bachelors degree. The ABM in Health and Wellness allows exceptional students to count up to six (6) hours towards the M.S. in Integrative Health and Wellness. Upon completion of the undergraduate B.S. in Health and Community Wellness, with a satisfactory undergraduate grade point average and a grade of "B" or better in all graduate courses completed, the student may move to full graduate status in the M.S. in Integrative Health and Wellness graduate program, and the courses taken as an undergraduate will be applied toward the graduate degree. Learning Outcomes: 1. The student will be able to describe discipline-specific and theoretical concepts related to industry standards set by the National Wellness Institute in five critical aspects: systems aspect, methodological aspect, professional aspect, project management aspect, and contextual aspect. 2. The student will be able to implement evidence-based information appropriate to developmental level, health literacy level, learning needs, learning readiness, and cultural values and beliefs to educate clients and the public about health promotion and wellness. 3. The student will demonstrate dispositions essential to becoming effective professionals. 4. The student will apply participatory, holistic, and strength-based processes to design and evaluate a wellness program that meets the objectives and outcomes established by key stakeholders.
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  • Status*
  • Program Location*
Curriculum Information
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  • Prospective Curriculum*

  • PROGRAM CURRICULUM

    **IF NO COURSES OR CORES APPEAR IN THIS SECTION WHEN YOU IMPORT, DO NOT PROCEED. Contact curriculog@westga.edu for further instruction.

    This section allows departments to maintain the curriculum schema for the program which will feed directly to the catalog. Please click here for a video demonstration on how to build your program curriculum.

    Follow these steps to propose courses to the program curriculum. 

    Step 1 - Deleting Courses from the Program

    In order to delete courses that you are removing from your program, please follow these steps:

    • First, delete the course from the core it is associated within the curriculum schema tab. For removing courses click on the  and proceed.
    • Next, delete the course from the list of curriculum courses tab. For removing courses click on the  and proceed.

    Step 2 - Adding New Courses to the Program 

    In order to add courses to your program, you must first add all courses to be included in the program of study through the view curriculum courses tab

    • If this new program proposal includes the UWG undergraduate General Education Curriculum, scroll to the top of this form and click on the  icon to import the "University of West Georgia General Education Requirements."
    • For courses already in the catalog, click on "Import Course" and find the courses needed.
    •  For new courses going through a Curriculog Approval Process click on "Add Course"-- a box will open asking you for the Prefix, Course Number and Course Title.

    NOTE: A New Course Request proposal must also be submitted along with the New Program Proposal if the course is new. 

    Step 3 - Adding Courses in the Curriculum Schema

    To add courses to the cores (sections of the program of study, e.g., Requirements, Additional Information, etc.) in the curriculum schema  click on  "View Curriculum Schema."  Select the core that you want to add the course to.  When you click on "Add Courses" it will bring up the list of courses available from Step 2.

Justification and Assessment
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  • Rationale*
    Based on feedback from students, graduate school pre-requisite requirements, and consultation with advisory board members in the professional field, the following changes to required content are being proposed to better prepare students for graduate school and the field. The new ABM pathway will be an additional option, ideal for students pursing a career in health and wellness coaching. 1) Require CMWL 3300: Medical Terminology for all tracks. This course will give students valuable foundational knowledge to work in clinical settings. 2) Replace PHED 4501 with CMWL 3240 as a required course. These classes covered the same content but PHED 4501 is geared more towards K-12 school settings. It is more appropriate for students to take CMWL 3240 for current issues in the community setting. 3) Require PHED 4631: Care and Prevention of Sport Injury for the Athletic Training, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy tracks and offer as an elective for the General Track. This course will pair well with PHED 2628, PHED 4603, and CMWL 4000 for students who will be working in the exercise science/sports/physical fields. If needed, CMWL 4103 and/or CMWL 4101 have been removed from the required courses to allow for CMWL 3300 and/or PHED 4631 which were determined to be more valuable content areas for those particular tracks. 4) CMWL 3401 has been removed from required, but will still be offered as an elective. The content in this course is covered in some form in other courses and students who are interested in a more in depth look at technology and it's use in the field still have the option to take it as an elective, if on the general track. 5) Add NUTR 3100 as an elective option for the general track. All other major content areas (ex: physical wellness, mental wellness, program planning) have at least two courses offered, with the exception of nutrition. This will give students on the general track an opportunity for deeper learning on the nutrition topic, if they are interested, and provides additional elective options in general, which was needed after moving two electives into the required course offerings. 6) Add CMWL 3230, CMWL 3304, and PHED 4631 to the Professional Elective options for the Dietetics track. This will give students a variety of options to choose from and corresponds with the elective offerings for the General Track. 7) Add ABM pathway with 2 course substitution options: CMWL 6400 for CMWL 4000 and CMWL 6500 for CMWL 3401.
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  • If making changes to the Program Learning Outcomes, please provide the updated SLOs in a numbered list format.
    1. The student will be able to describe discipline-specific and theoretical concepts related to industry standards set by the National Wellness Institute in five critical aspects: systems aspect, methodological aspect, professional aspect, project management aspect, and contextual aspect. 2. The student will be able to implement evidence-based information appropriate to developmental level, health literacy level, learning needs, learning readiness, and cultural values and beliefs to educate clients and the public about health promotion and wellness. 3. The student will demonstrate dispositions essential to becoming effective professionals 4. The student will apply participatory, holistic, and strength-based processes to design and evaluate a wellness program that meets the objectives and outcomes established by key stakeholders.

  • SACSCOC Substantive Change

    Please review SACSCOC Substantive Change Considerations for Curriculum Changes
    Send questions to kylec@westga.edu.

  • Check all that apply to this program*
  • Check all that apply to this program*
  • SACSCOC Comments

  • REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS

    ATTACH the the following required documentsl by navigating to the Proposal Toolbox and clicking  in the top right corner.

    1.) Program Map and/or Program Sheet

    For advising purposes, all programs must have a program map. Please download the program map template from here, and upload.

    Make sure to upload the new program sheet that reflects these changes. If you'd like to update both the old and new program new for reference, please ensure that you distinctly mark them and upload as one document.

    3.) Academic Assessment Plan/Reporting

    All new major programs must include an assessment plan. Stand-alone minors must have an assessment plan as well.  A stand-alone minor is a minor that can be earned in a program that does not offer an undergraduates degree with a major in that discipline (for example, a student can earn a minor in Africana Studies but cannot complete a bachelor's degree with a major in Africana Studies). Minors in a discipline where a corresponding major is offered, are not required to include an assessment plan.

    Please download the Academic Assessment Plan/Reporting template and attach to this proposal.

    4.) Curriculum Map Assessment

    Please download the Curriculum and Assessment Map template and attach to this proposal.

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