The Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation is one of four departments located in the College of Education and serves the largest number of students in the College. There are approximately 1300 undergraduate and 85 graduate majors in the KHPR Department. The Department is home to approximately 30 faculty members and 20 graduate Teaching Fellows.

The College of Education is one of nine Colleges/Schools at the University of North Texas. UNT is a state supported institution of higher education established in Denton in 1890. As the region's most comprehensive university, UNT offers its students a commitment to excellence in education through expanded programs and facilities. The University of North Texas campus, composed of 133 buildings on 424 acres, tops a triangle linking Dallas and Fort Worth and is less than a 45 minute drive to each of the cities. UNT serves students from every state in the nation and from approximately 100 foreign countries.

UNT offers students a career planning and placement service, counseling and testing center, financial aid, international programs, legal assistance, housing information, reading and study skills laboratory, and a well-staffed health center.

Main Office
Physical Education Building, Room 209
(940) 565-2651

Vision

The Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation will be one of the state's top tier departments with nationally recognized academic programs.  The Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation will be recognized for teaching, research, creativity and professional activities, and services as they relate to mental and physical health and overall quality of life in a diverse society.

Mission

The mission of the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation shall be to support and encourage an in depth understanding of the nature and functioning of human beings in their physical, health, and leisure behaviors and the programs which facilitate the enhanced quality of life. The Department intends to accomplish this mission through the academic preparation of professionals, contributions to the professional body of knowledge, and provision of service to the university and community at large.

Attainment of the goals associated with this mission includes the provision of the highest quality of teaching and research in graduate and undergraduate kinesiology, health promotion, and recreation curricula. The academic Units represent a broad range of study such as: school and community health, driver traffic and safety, kinesiology pedagogy, kinesiology/sport administration, biomechanics, physiology of exercise, health/fitness management, history and philosophy of kinesiology, psychosocial aspects of sport, teacher behavior, leisure services management, social-psychological dimensions of leisure behavior, and therapeutic recreation.