About - Health, Physical Education & Athletics Department | Wartburg College

The Health, Physical Education, and Athletics Department offers a variety of opportunities for possible career choices. Health and physical education programs are oriented toward the teaching profession and culminate in a student teaching experience.

Fitness Management Major (PDF)
A degree in fitness management will prepare you for positions in health clubs, hospital wellness programs, corporate fitness centers, and school wellness programs. Fitness management majors must complete an internship where they observe, plan, and implement fitness programs in an actual leadership, supervisory, or administrative capacity.

Physical Education Major (PDF)
A physical education major will prepare you to teach and coach in elementary and secondary schools. Wartburg offers a K-12 teaching certification program in physical education and a 7-12 endorsement in health. A 14-week student teaching experience takes place in local schools with a seven-week placement in elementary PE and a seven-week placement in secondary PE with the possibility of teaching in a health class.

Course Descriptions (PDF)

Program goals:

To prepare students to become quality physical education teachers through the acquisition of knowledge pertaining to the general functioning of the human body and fitness testing.
To prepare students to become quality fitness/wellness professionals through the acquisition of knowledge pertaining to the general functioning of the human body and fitness testing.
To develop an appreciation of the role of physical activity in the balance of life through physical education and fitness/wellness programs.
To prepare students to successfully complete their student teaching and/or internship experience, where they can start to display and incorporate the values and ethics of their profession.