School of Health Sciences and Wellness Health Science and Wellness Degree

A Pathway to Advance Your Allied Health Career

The Health Science and Wellness – Clinician Degree Option at UW-Stevens Point is a bachelor’s degree completion program for clinical allied health professionals. Step into career advancement by earning your bachelor’s degree, enhancing your expertise, and gaining valuable leadership skills. Diversify your healthcare knowledge and prepare for greater opportunities in the growing healthcare field.

The Best of Both Worlds:  Combining Physical Health with Wellness

This program offers a unique opportunity to study both health science and wellness, equipping you with an understanding of physical health, mental health, healthcare administration, and overall wellness. By integrating these critical areas, you’ll gain the skills needed to deliver holistic care that meets the diverse needs of today’s healthcare environment.

Transfer Your Credits

Students must transfer a minimum of 30 credits* from an allied health program to apply toward a Bachelor of Science in Health Science and Wellness. UW-Stevens Point can accept any number of credits and could apply up to 72 from a technical college towards their bachelor’s.

*Students with smaller allied health programs (<30 credits) who did not earn 30 credits in their allied health program can complete a Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate (12 credits) at UW-Stevens Point to meet the credit requirement.

Professional Eligibility

Applicants must be eligible for or hold a current registration, certification, or licensure in a clinical allied health discipline.

Flexible Options Designed for Working Adults

• Customize Your Education: Take 18 credits of core Health Science and Wellness courses; you choose the classes that best match your goals and interests.
• Convenient Learning Formats: Program available 100% online, in person, or as a hybrid option.
• Pace That Works for You: Complete your bachelor’s degree part-time or full-time each semester.
• Year-Round Course Offerings: Take advantage of courses offered during winter and summer to accelerate your progress, skills and knowledge.

Examples of Eligible Allied Health Programs

• Dental Assistant
• Dental Hygienist
• Health and Wellness Coach
• Massage Therapist
• Medical Assistant
• Medical Billing and Coding
• Medical Laboratory Technician
• Nursing (LPN, RN)
• Occupational Therapy Assistant
• Paramedic
• Physical Therapy Assistant
• Radiography
• Respiratory Therapist
• Sonography

This is not an exhaustive list. Please contact us to determine if your program meets our criteria.

Take the Next Step in Your Career

Advance your skills, expand your career opportunities, and earn your bachelor’s degree with the Health Science and Wellness – Clinician Degree Option program at UW-Stevens Point. Start your journey today! Email us with a copy of your unofficial transcripts to receive an estimate on how many credits are needed to complete this program.

Sample Graduation Plan

Accelerated Bachelor’s + Master’s – 3+2 Dual Degree

• Year 1: Declare your major and review the 3+2 requirements with your advisor
• Year 2 and 3: Complete HSW 3+2 undergraduate degree requirements and maintain retention standards for the program.
• Start of Year 3: Complete the application for Admission into the MS-AT program.
• Year 4: Start the 2-year MS-AT curriculum. 15 credits from the MS-AT count in both bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Retention Standards for the 3+2 Program

Students declared 3+2 Dual Degree majors must meet retention standards and are not guaranteed admission to the MS-AT. To maintain good standing and be eligible to apply to the MS-AT program, 3+2 students must:

1. 1. Maintain an undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher

1. 1. Attain a C grade in prerequisite coursework for the MS-AT.

      1. 1. BIO 101, Chem 101/105, Physics 101/203, BIO 287 or 387, HSW 312 and 375, HSW 301 or MATH 255, PSYC 101 and FN 354.

3+2 students not accepted into the MS-AT will transition to the traditional 4-year plan for HSW – Pre-Athletic Training. Students can reapply to the MS-AT program. Proactive advising is key to a 3+2 student’s success – please make sure to seek out your early career adviser in the Academic and Career Advising Center, visit the SHSW Student Success Center, or stop in to talk to one of the MS-AT faculty in the Science Building.

Athletic training encompasses the prevention, examination, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of emergent, acute, or chronic injuries and medical conditions. Services provided by athletic trainers include primary care, injury and illness prevention, wellness promotion and education, emergent care, examination and clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions. Becoming a licensed athletic trainer involves completing a Master of Science in Athletic Training program.

• Learn more: www.nata.org
• Sample Graduation Plan
• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: AT 181, FN 354, HSW 312, HSW 375, Phys 101 or 203
• UWSP M.S. in Athletic Training

Occupational therapists evaluate situations, listen to their patients, and develop intervention plans to improve or maintain a patient’s ability to perform daily activities (such as getting dressed, interacting with others, or improving memory function). Becoming a licensed occupational therapist involves completing a master’s or doctoral program in occupational therapy.

• Learn more: www.aota.org
• Sample Graduation Plan
• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: Phys 101 or 203. Consider: Psyc 351, FN 354, HSW 312, HSW 375

Physical therapists are movement experts who improve quality of life through prescribed exercise, hands-on care, and patient education. They work with multiple patient populations and people impacted by disease, injury, disability, and movement dysfunction. Becoming a licensed PT involves completing a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program.

• Learn more: www.apta.org
  
• Sample Graduation Plan
  
• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: Chem 105 (instead of Chem 101) and Chem 106, Phys 203 and 204. Consider: FN 354, HSW 312, HSW 375 and Psyc 351
• UWSP Doctor of Physical Therapy 

Pursue industry leading certification and careers in settings such as public health agencies, hospital community health, employee wellness centers, and health advocacy organizations.

• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: HSW 410, 420, and 1 select elective
• UWSP Community Health Minor

Businesses and organizations of all types often invest in their staff by having a program designed to holistically support employee wellbeing, including all aspects of wellness.

• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: HSW 410 or Bus 330, HSW 420, HSW 470 and Bus 325, Bus 326 or Psyc 345
• UWSP Employee and Organizational Wellness Certificate

Enhance your knowledge about how food and dietary patterns influence wellbeing in ways behind nutrients. Become a health and wellness professional who incorporates knowledge of food and cooking in disease prevention and treatment.

• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: FN 206, 354, 373, 393
• UWSP Food and Nutrition for the Health and Wellness Professional Certificate

As a health and wellness coach, you will guide individuals during their transformative journey of achieving lasting changes and enhanced well-being by helping them overcome hurdles, surpass limitations and tap into their own unrealized personal and professional potential.

• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: HSW 705, 735, 765, and 775 (formal application required)
• UWSP Health and Wellness Coaching Graduate Certificate

Every medical organization needs leaders who understand the complexities of health and wellness along with elements of business. Healthcare administration professionals may work in functional areas such as financial management, quality assurance, patient and employee advocacy and more. Additionally, people with interest in this area may find a good fit within companies related to healthcare, such as insurance companies or medical equipment facilities.

• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: Business Administration minor, Econ 111, Econ 324

Exercise performance professionals teach and/or coach individuals’ lifelong fitness and movement skills in a variety of settings. Courses in this program are designed to prepare students for additional certifications in athletics, exercise, and fitness professions. Woven into this curriculum is real-world, hands-on skills application.

• Classes to add to your degree plan for route: FN 354, HSW 312, HSW 375, HSW 455, HSW 456 and HSW 470
• UWSP Strength and Conditioning Minor