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This school is within the College Professional Studies.


Julia Fischer, Assistant Dean
2001 Fourth Ave., University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI  54481
Office: Room D127, Science Building
Phone: 715-346-4657
Email: jfischer@uwsp.edu
Web: https://www.uwsp.edu/health/school-of-health-sciences-and-wellness/

academic adviser

A Baker, J Christensen

faculty

T Akins, J Barge, D Barten, N Brown, S Bunyan, R Craig, C Dinnes, C Durall, J Fischer, T Halkowski, R Henning, S Holbrook, C Huck, A Hussain, S Johnson, T Kay, B Kinslow, B Krolczyk, C Li, D McCarty, C Nimm, J Olmsted, A Pagel, S Reeve, S Reynolds, H Schmies, S Scovill, D Smith, J Steinmetz, T Swenson, D Tang, P Terrell, S Turgeson, T Veith, S Wall, B Weltzin, A Wetter, K Zalewski, L Zoromski

adjunct support

A Baker, B Barrett, K DeSmet, T Dionne D Gibbs, M Goetsch, J Horay, K Hugill, C Imfeld, K Kirschbaum, T Kuckkahn, B Lamb, W Limp, K Michalski, M Murphy, K Rauter-Egge, B Rotering, L Wiebe, C Zolnierek

support staff

S Clark, D Deising, T Firkus, T Molski, C Skebba, M Toftum

Abbreviations:

  • ACLP = Association of Child Life Professionals

  • COL = Community & Organizational Leadership

  • CSD = Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • CYFS = Child, Youth & Family Studies

  • FCS = Family and Consumer Sciences

  • FN = Food and Nutrition

  • HD = Human Development

  • HIMT - Health Information Management and Technology

  • HIM = Health Information Management

  • HIT =Health Information Technology

  • HP = Health Promotion

  • HPW = Health Promotion and Wellness

  • HS = Health Science

  • HWM - Health and Wellness Management

  • MLS = Medical Laboratory Science

  • SFN = Sustainable Food and Nutrition

  • MCCH = Marshfield Clinic Health System Champions Hall

Academic Standards for the School of Health Sciences and Wellness

  1. You may declare a major in the School of Health Sciences and Wellness at any time. Some majors utilize “premajors” and/or specified requirements for acceptance into the professional components of the major. You must maintain a 2.75 cumulative GPA through graduation for dietetics, family and consumer sciences-teacher education option, and sustainable food and nutrition majors. For these same majors, transfer students must have a 2.75 cumulative GPA to enter.

  2. See additional major-specific requirements listed by program.

  3. See the Grade-related Policies section of this catalog for the policy on repeating courses.

Test-Out Policy for School of Health Sciences and Wellness

The School of Health Sciences and Wellness will offer test-out for all its General Education Program Approved Courses. The comprehensive written examinations will be based on materials normally covered in the course. Grading will be pass/fail with the minimum passing grade equivalent to the most recent class average grade.

If you wish to take a test-out exam, first confer with the School of Health Sciences and Wellness assistant dean. Then confer with the faculty member who most recently taught the course who will inform you in writing of the required minimum passing score prior to administering the exam and provide the results to you in writing within two weeks of taking the exam. You may take a test-out exam only once.