Exercise, Sports, & Health Studies

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.

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.

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.

An introduction to the study of Exercise Science. The student will study the body's physiological systems and their response to exercise. The principles and proper techniques of physical fitness, weight management, and wellness will be discussed.

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.

 

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.

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.

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.