This option prepares graduates to provide leadership for organizing, directing, and managing physical fitness programs in business and industrial settings, health clubs, and hospital-based fitness/wellness cardiac rehabilitation programs. The program is excellent preparation for graduate school.
Curriculum requirements for the four-year program are listed below:
Baccalaureate Core Requirements (48)
Exercise Science Curriculum (66–76)
EXSS 131. Intro to Exercise and Sport Science (1)
EXSS 322. Anatomical Kinesiology (4)
EXSS 323. Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise (4)
EXSS 324. Exercise Physiology (4)
EXSS 325. Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription (2)
EXSS 370. Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (3)
EXSS 371. Measurement in Exercise and Sport Science (3)
EXSS 381. ^Analysis of Critical Issues in EXSS (3)
Choose two of the following:
EXSS 394. Professional Activities: Resistance Training Program Design (2)
EXSS 395. Professional Activities: Group Fitness (2)
EXSS 396. Professional Activities: Aquatics (2)
EXSS 434. Applied Muscle Physiology (3)
EXSS 435. Physical Activity Promotion (3)
EXSS 436. Cardiovascular Physiology and Disease (3)
Practical Experience and Applied Learning:
EXSS 307. Seminar (Sect. 2, Pre-Internship) (1)
EXSS 333. Exercise and Sport Science Practicum (2)
EXSS 410. Internship (9–15)
Choose at least five courses from the following list:
EXSS 158. Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries (3)
EXSS 312. *Sociocultural Dimensions of Physical Activity (3)
EXSS 313. Lifespan Motor Development (4)
EXSS 334. Exercise and Sport Science Practicum (2)
EXSS 340. Organization of Sports Programs (3)
EXSS 411. Movement Skill Learning and Control (3)
EXSS 414. Physical Activity and Aging (3)
EXSS 444. Adapted Physical Activity (4)
EXSS 463. Administration in Exercise and Sport Science (3)
EXSS 474. Exercise Physiology Lab Methods (2)
EXSS 475. *Power and Privilege in Sport (3)
Human Nutrition Curriculum (13)
NUTR 240. Human Nutrition (3)
NUTR 241. Applications in Human Nutrition (1)
NUTR 312. *Issues in Nutrition and Health (3)
NUTR 325. Nutrition Through the Lifespan (3)
NUTR 341. Nutrition for Exercise (3)
Science and Social Science Courses (44)
CH 121. General Chemistry (5)
CH 122. *General Chemistry (5)
CH 123. *General Chemistry (5)
or CH 130. General Chemistry of Living Systems (4)
MB 230. *Introductory Microbiology (4)
MTH 112. *Elementary Functions (4)
PH 201. *General Physics (5)
PSY 201. *General Psychology (3)
Z 331, Z 332, Z 333. Human Anatomy and Physiology (3,3,3)
Z 341, Z 342. Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab (2,2)
Supporting Courses (11)
PHL 205. *Ethics (4)
PHAR 210. Terminology of the Health Sciences (2)
One of the following:
COMM 111. *Public Speaking (3)
COMM 114. *Argument and Critical Discourse (3)
COMM 218. *Interpersonal Communication (3)
One of the following:
COMM 324. Communication in Organizations (3)
COMM 326. Intercultural Communication (3)
COMM 432. Gender and Communication (3)
Courses listed in Sections II through V must be taken in the normal, A–F grading basis.
Students must select additional elective credits to complete a total of 180 credits required for a degree.
Suggested Electives
BA 215. Money and Investment Management: Manager, Lender, Investor Viewpoint (4)
BA 230. Business Law I (4)
BA 260. Intro to Entrepreneurship (4)
BB 331. *Intro to Molecular Biology (3)
BB 350. Elementary Biochemistry (4)
CH 331, CH 332. Organic Chemistry (4,4)
EXSS 335. Practicum (2)
H 220. Intro to Epidemiology and Health Data Analysis (3)
H 225. *Social and Individual Health Determinants (4)
H 312. *AIDS and STDs in Modern Society (3)
H 320. *Intro to Human Disease (3)
NUTR 216. *Food in Non-Western Culture (3)
NUTR 417, NUTR 418. Human Nutrition Science (4,4)
NUTR 419. Human Nutrition Laboratory (3) [WIC status dropped winter 2010]
NUTR 420. Medical Nutrition Therapy (5)
NUTR 421. Child Nutrition (3)
NUTR 429. Nutrition and Aging (3)
PHL 444. *Biomedical Ethics (4)
SOC 454. *Leisure and Culture (4)
ST 201. Principles of Statistics (3)
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