Dec 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum 
    
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum

Human Performance, AAS

Location(s): Central Campus


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Our Human Performance AAS degree is uniquely designed to provide students with an innovative curriculum, practical laboratory experience and a low faculty/student ratio for those who are passionate about a career in health and wellness, fitness and/or athletic performance.

During your time with us, you will have the opportunity to learn from elite professionals in the fields of medical fitness, commercial fitness, athletic performance, and corporate wellness. Additionally, you will gain practical experience at local facilities, considered the gold standard in the industry.

As a program graduate, you will have gained knowledge and skills for designing effective exercise programs in a variety of settings for the specific needs and abilities of individual clients, specific groups of individuals, and/or special populations. Our program will prepare you for national certification, employment in the industry, and opportunities to further your education at the university level.

Pathways between the University of Texas at Tyler and Stephen F. Austin State University afford the Human Performance graduate opportunities to transfer into a Bachelor of Science Degree in Kinesiology. Typically, students will spend 2 years at TJC earning an Associate of Applied Science then transfer to finish 2 years at the university level to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology.

Interested in earning a living while becoming a better you? Enroll in TJC’s Human Performance program today.

Enrollment in this program is limited. See the Selective Admissions  requirements in the admission section of this Catalog.

Marketable skills for this award include: analytical/quantitative skills, creativity, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, presentation skills and technical skills.

 

Associate of Applied Science
TSI Reading & Writing Complete

General Education Requirements: 20 Credits


Every Associate of Applied Science degree plan must contain at least 15 semester hours of general education courses. At least one course must be taken from each of the following areas: humanities/fine arts (language, philosophy & culture/creative arts), social/behavioral science (social and behavioral sciences/American history/government/political science), and natural science/mathematics (life and physical sciences/mathematics).

Major Courses: 40
General Education Requirements: 20

Total Semester Hours: 60


Recommended Course Sequence:


First Semester


Second Semester


Fourth Semester


Total Semester Hours: 60


*Recommended Core Curriculum course. Other Core Curriculum courses may satisfy this requirement.

**Some classes require acceptance into the team sport or group.

NOTE: Some courses are only offered during Fall semester or Spring semester but not both. Please plan accordingly.

# Indicates course only taught in the fall semester

+ Indicates course only taught in the spring semester

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