Formerly Health Science and Recreation

Office: Spartan Complex, 201

Telephone: 408-924-2971

Website: www.sjsu.edu/hsr

Professors

Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Chair
Kathleen M. Roe

Associate Professors

Anne Demers
Jane Pham
Miranda Worthen

Assistant Professors

Monica Allen
Josh Baur
Anji Buckner-Capone
Andrew Carter
Marcelle Dougan
Vicky Gomez
Jennifer Hartle
Michael Harvey
Susan Ross
Jennie Zhang

Overview

The Department of Public Health and Recreation prepares leaders and practitioners who promote health and improve the environments in which we live, work, learn, and play. We strive to embrace a Teacher-Scholar-Practitioner Model through student, alumni, faculty, and community engagement to advance practices in public health and recreation fields. Our undergraduate curriculum in public health examines the multiple dimensions/determinants of health (e.g., physical, emotional, social, environmental, and spiritual) and the scientific and practical basis for understanding and promoting health at the population level (including epidemiology, policies, and community health) to create the optimal, meaningful conditions for health and wellness for all. Founded in 1970, the Master of Public Health program (MPH) has been accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) since 1974 and is offered in two formats. Our campus format is regular session and offers the flexibility to complete the program full or part-time. Our synchronous online format is offered through the College of Professional and Global Education. Our MPH students engage in an integrated program of learning, scholarship, and internships in partnership with a diverse network of community agencies. Our recreation degree program, founded in 1947 (the oldest undergraduate recreation degree program in the State of California), has a core curriculum continuously accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Park, Recreation, and Tourism Related Professions (COAPRT) since 1987. We offer concentrations in Recreation Management and Recreation Therapy, as well as a minor in recreation and a minor in recreation and nature. We also plan to offer an innovative Master’s Program in Recreation through Northern California CSU four-campus coalition.

All of our programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels incorporate student-centered curriculums with our commitment to community development, social justice orientations, interdisciplinary and intercultural/globalized approaches with its emphasis on rigor and innovation, high-impact experiential learning, and career-focused applied orientations. Developed by our recent strategic planning process, our new vision statement of the department is as follows - “We aspire to be innovators and leaders in learning and teaching, scholarship, and professional practice by integrating public health and recreation to ignite social change and work towards a more vibrant, prosperous, and just world where the optimal health and wellbeing of individuals and communities are achieved and sustained.”.

Recreation Program

Office: SPARTAN COMPLEX, 211

Telephone: 408-924-2971

Website: Recreation Program Website

Assistant Professors

Josh Baur
Susan Ross

Programs

• Complementary and Alternative Health Practices Minor
• Health Professions Minor
• Public Health Minor
• Public Health, BS
• Public Health, Health Services Administration Concentration, BS
• Public Health, MPH
• Recreation Minor
• Recreation, BS
• Recreation, International Tourism Concentration, MS (Not Accepting Students)
• Recreation, MS
• Recreation, Recreation Management Concentration, BS
• Recreation, Recreation Therapy Concentration, BS

Courses

• HPRF 134 - Complementary and Alternative Health Practices
• HPRF 135ITL - Health issues in a multicultural society-international experience
• HPRF 180 - Individual Studies
• HPRF 260 - Multidisciplinary Health Promotion in Later Life

• HS 1 - Understanding Your Health
• HS 15 - Human Life Span
• HS 25 - Health Team Building
• HS 67 - Introductory Health Statistics
• HS 74 - Healthy Communities
• HS 92 - Int’l Program Studies
• HS 100W - Writing Workshop
• HS 101B - Computer Applications for Professionals
• HS 103 - Introduction to Health Policy
• HS 104 - Community Health Promotion
• HS 105 - Current Issues in Nutrition
• HS 106 - Concepts in Peer Health Education
• HS 107 - Aging and Society
• HS 108 - Health in Later Life
• HS 111 - Medical Ethics
• HS 114 - Applications in Community Health Promotion
• HS 117 - Social Policy and Services in Aging
• HS 118 - Long Term Care Services
• HS 122 - Women in the Second Half of Life
• HS 126 - Drugs, Brain and Behavior
• HS 135 - Health Issues in a Multicultural Society
• HS 135ITL - Health issues in a multicultural society-international experience
• HS 137 - Families, Aging, and Diversity
• HS 140 - Human Sexuality
• HS 145 - Community Mental Health
• HS 158 - Health Communications
• HS 159 - Health Program Planning
• HS 161 - Epidemiology
• HS 162 - Health Care Organization and Admin
• HS 164 - Health Services and Social Marketing
• HS 165 - The Health Professional
• HS 166A - Field Experience Seminar
• HS 166B - Fieldwork Experience
• HS 167 - Biostatistics
• HS 168 - Health Education Theory and Methods
• HS 169 - Diversity, Stress and Health
• HS 170 - Health Care Economics
• HS 171 - Managed Health Care
• HS 172 - Contemporary Environmental Health Issues
• HS 173 - Comparative Healthcare Systems
• HS 174 - Fundamentals of Health Information Tech
• HS 175 - Legal/Ethical Aspects, Healthcare Admin
• HS 176 - Introduction to Global Health
• HS 180 - Individual Studies
• HS 184 - Directed Reading
• HS 192 - Int’l Program Studies
• HS 200 - Contemporary Practice in Public Health
• HS 201 - Groups and Training: Theory and Practice
• HS 205A - Quantitative Methods for Public Health Practice I
• HS 205B - Quantitative Methods in Public Health
• HS 215 - Qualitative Methods for Public Health Practice
• HS 261 - Principles of Epidemiology
• HS 262 - Health Policy and Organization
• HS 263 - Principles and Skills of Health Administration
• HS 265 - Environmental Health
• HS 267 - Computational Public Health Statistics
• HS 269 - Applied Data Analysis
• HS 271 - Theoretical Foundations of Public Health
• HS 272 - Health Promotion Planning and Evaluation
• HS 276 - Community Organization and Health Promotion
• HS 277 - Multicultural Communication for Health Professionals
• HS 291A - Fieldwork Seminar
• HS 291B - Fieldwork Practicum
• HS 291C - Professional Skills for Public Health Practice
• HS 291D - Work Experience Practicum
• HS 291P - Professional Development
• HS 293 - Public Health Leadership
• HS 295 - Research Methodology
• HS 298 - Graduate Project
• HS 299 - Master’s Thesis
• HS 1290R - Culminating Experience Supervision

• RECL 10 - Creating a Meaningful Life
• RECL 15 - Human Life Span
• RECL 90 - Foundations of Recreation Parks & Tourism
• RECL 94 - The Outdoor Recreation Experience
• RECL 97 - Event Planning
• RECL 100W - Writing Workshop
• RECL 110 - Leisure, Life and Contemporary Society
• RECL 111 - Leisure, Culture, and Identity
• RECL 112 - Foundations of Recreation Therapy
• RECL 113 - Leisure: Philosophy and Education
• RECL 130 - Event Marketing in Recreation Enterprises
• RECL 132 - Recreation Program Planning
• RECL 133 - Principles of Recreation Leadership
• RECL 135 - Planning and Managing Rec Areas & Facil
• RECL 136 - Principles of Recreation and Park Admin
• RECL 140A - Spec Interventions in RT: Aquatic Therapy
• RECL 140B - Spec Inter in RT: Behavior Interventions
• RECL 140C - Spec Inter in RT: Adventure Tx
• RECL 143 - Festivals and Community Special Events
• RECL 144 - Natural and Cultural Resource Interpretation in Recreation and Parks
• RECL 148 - Biofeedback Principles and Practices
• RECL 150 - For-Profit Enterprises in Recreation
• RECL 151 - Planning and Development of Tourism and Event Enterprises
• RECL 152 - Non-Profit Leadership & Management
• RECL 153 - Youth Development and Services
• RECL 155 - Outdoor Recreation Systems