PROGRAMS | LIBERAL ARTS PATHWAYS
Health, Physical Education & Recreation Pathway
Movement builds confidence. Recreation can create belonging. Healthy habits can change lives. If you enjoy helping people live healthier, more active lives, the Health, Physical Education & Recreation at Lake Region State College is for you.
Help People Move, Grow, and Thrive
This field is about more than exercise or athletics. It is about helping people build healthier lives. In this pathway, you’ll begin learning how to:
- Understand how movement, wellness, and recreation support lifelong health
- Motivate people to set goals, build confidence, and develop healthy habits
- Create inclusive activities where people of all ages and abilities can participate
- Explore leadership through teaching, coaching, recreation, and community
- Connect physical activity with mental well-being, belonging, and quality of life
Whether you see yourself in a gym, classroom, recreation program, community organization, or outdoors, your can make a difference.
Start Here. Grow Here. Go Anywhere.
From your first semester through transfer, you’ll work with faculty advisors who help you stay on track, explore your interests, and prepare for what comes next.
Interested in this Pathway?
Have questions or want to learn more? Contact LRSC to get more information about this Pathway and your next steps.
Associate of Science with an Health, Physical Education & Recreation Transfer Pathway
Build a Foundation for What Comes Next
The Health, Physical Education & Recreation Pathway leads to an associate degree through a structured 60-credit pathway that develops communication, leadership, scientific understanding, and a broad academic foundation, all while preparing you to transfer into a bachelor’s program.
You’ll complete the broad requirements of the associate degree while beginning coursework that supports continued study in health, movement, and recreation. Depending on your goals and course availability, your pathway may include study in Health, Physical Education, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, Nutrition, Coaching, and related fields.
Where This Pathway Can Lead
Every coach who builds confidence, every teacher who inspires movement, and every recreation or wellness leader who brings people together helps others thrive. At LRSC, you’ll build the knowledge and skills to turn that impact into purposeful work and strengthen the communities you serve.
Explore Health and Wellness
Explore how movement, wellness, and recreation support lifelong health and help people live active, healthy lives.
Lead, Teach, and Inspire
Build skills in teaching, coaching, leadership, and creating activities that help people set goals and develop healthy habits.
Where This Pathway Can Lead
Explore fields like Physical Education, Exercise Science, Recreation Management, Health Promotion, Coaching, Fitness and Wellness, Sport Management, Youth Recreation, Outdoor Recreation, and more.
Admission Info
We welcome students from all backgrounds and are here to help you get started at LRSC. From applying to getting ready for your first semester, our team is here to help you through the process.
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Tuition & Costs
We know paying for college is an important part of planning for what's next. Explore tuition, financial aid, scholarships, and other options that can help make an LRSC education more affordable.
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