Graduate Catalog: College of Health and Human Services

Interim Dean: Alan Levine, Ph.D.

Mission Statement

The mission of the College of Health and Human Services is to educate undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students in an atmosphere of respect, individuality, and flexibility for best collaborative practices to address current and emerging health and human service needs in a multicultural, interdependent, global environment, and to promote nationally recognized scholarship and community service.

Areas of Study

Health and Physical Education: The mission of the Department of Health and Physical Education is to promote personal and community health, fitness, and wellness through dedicated faculty delivering accredited physical education and athletic training programs. These values are taught through individual and team sports activities, professional treatment of athletic injuries, and healthy living behaviors that serve to prevent disease and promote well-being and longevity.

Nursing and Public Administration: The Nursing and Public Administration Department’s curriculum encompasses those aspects of health care, which assist practitioners to identify human health conditions and to diagnose and treat health problems. The department advocates quality health care, teaching practices, and behaviors that reflect the values congruent with the ethical practice of nursing. Essential values include altruism, equality, aesthetics, freedom, human dignity, justice and truth. In addition, the broad based M.P.A. degree program prepares graduates for excellence in professional management in a variety of organizations, the M.H.S.A. in health organizations, and the M.S. in Gerontology in organizations which care for the elderly.

Nutrition and Dietetics: The mission of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics is to provide dedicated faculty, quality facilities and a diverse environment which support nationally recognized undergraduate and graduate education, research, and service in the areas of nutrition, dietetics, sports nutrition/exercise science, and family/consumer sciences.

Physician Assistant Program: The Physician Assistant Program at Marywood University is committed to exceptional education in a supportive and nurturing environment providing the knowledge necessary to diagnose, treat, educate, and empower patients. This program is committed to preparing the student to deal with the changing health care environment while promoting the PA profession and appreciation for the patient’s spirit, mind, and body. The Marywood Physician Assistant Program acknowledges and supports the need for quality health care both regionally and globally and learning to live/practice responsibly in an interdependent world.

School of Social Work: The School of Social Work educates students for advanced, self-critical social work practice. Grounded in the core values of the social work profession, highlighting the right of all persons to dignity, opportunity, and justice, and the amelioration of oppression, the curriculum is designed to teach knowledge, values, and skills which promote individual and societal well being through an understanding of the strengths and potential of all human beings in interaction with a multiplicity of environments. Appreciation of diversity is a keystone to all curricular content. The program promotes integration of the scientific method.