High School Applicants

Human health — ever moving and evolving  — needs your competitive drive. After all, nothing could be more vital than helping people make their lives better. 

Here, change-making confidence is developed in state-of-the-art technical facilities, alongside professors still active thought leaders in their fields. Exactly the competitive advantage you want. 

Go in search of human potential.

Earn 2 credentials

• Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Kinesiology
• Diploma in Fitness & Health Promotion

Your degree is granted by the University of Guelph and diploma by Humber Polytechnic. You must complete all four years of study to receive both credentials. 

• Build a scientific foundation that can lead to work with healthy populations, elite athletes, individuals with chronic diseases and people with physical challenges
• Learn about the human body structure and function, performance; clinical applications of exercise and nutrition theory, and health and fitness assessment

• Study health, injuries and illness
• Couple lectures with labs, where you put theory into practice
• Use state-of-the-art lab equipment, e.g., 3D motion capture system and body fat analysis (Bod Pod)

More than half of your courses have a lab component. There are less than 25 students per lab.

• Cell Biology
• Biochemistry & Metabolism I & II
• Fundamentals of Fitness Testing
• Exercise Techniques & Prescription
• Exercise Physiology
• Fitness & Lifestyle Assessment
• Advanced Fitness Assessment
• Performance-Related Exercise
• Exercise Prescription for Clinical Populations
• Functional Anatomy

To learn anatomy, you will attend a human cadaver lab at the University of Guelph. A U of GH bus takes students to and from class one day a week for your first fall and winter semesters.