Exercise, Sport, & Health Studies

Programs

Courses

BIOL 441: Exercise Physiology

Credits 4

This course dives into the physiology, biochemistry, and metabolism of exercise and nutrition.  Topics covered include respiratory physiology, muscle function during fitness training, current research on exercise, and fact and fiction about exercise and weight.  This course will feature lectures, problem solving, primary literature, and an exercise physiology lab component.

ESHS 101: Introduction to Public Health

Credits 3
This course will provide an overview and basic principles of the context and scope of public health. Explore population health tools; examine causes of morbidity and mortality increasing the understanding of determinants, burdens and interventions on population health; discuss health-care and public health systems; and identify special public health education focus areas.

ESHS 110: Personal Health and Exercise

Credits 3

Introduces the dimensions of wellness and how choices and situations interact to result in balanced or imbalanced health. Actively participates on health and skill-related fitness testing to determine and reflect upon one’s current status of physical health. Supports safe physical activity through advocacy.

ESHS 120: Functional Anatomy

Credits 3

Students will investigate the relationship between musculoskeletal anatomy of the human body with movement. Details of specific muscle action, joint structure, and function involved in the gross motor movement needed for common sport movements.

ESHS 206: Philosophy of Sport

Credits 3

This course serves as both an introduction to and a comprehensive study of the philosophy of sport. In addition to engaging with questions about ethical & aesthetic dimensions of sports, it will engage with political questions concerning race, gender and nationality as well as economic questions.

 

ESHS 325: Sports Medicine

Credits 3

The course will examine the body's physiological response to injury and the healing process. Each body segment and the most frequent muscle, tendon and ligament injuries will be presented. Along with rehabilitation principles for those injuries.

ESHS 342: Kinesiology

Credits 3

Kinesiology is the study of human movement focusing on both the physiological and mechanical properties. This course will begin with an examination of the musculoskeletal system. Students will lean the bones, joints, and muscles of the body, along with their primary and secondary functions. The second part of the course will focus on the principles of physics and motion and how we apply those to the human body.

ESHS 441: Exercise Physiology

Credits 4

This course dives into the physiology, biochemistry, and metabolism of exercise and nutrition.  Topics covered include respiratory physiology, muscle function during fitness training, current research on exercise, and fact and fiction about exercise and weight.  This course will feature lectures, problem solving, primary literature, and an exercise physiology lab component.