ESC - Exercise Science and Sport Studies
Involves testing, designing and implementing a personal physical fitness program. Emphasis is on developing and implementing personal fitness programs that include cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition.
Credit Hours: 2
An introduction to the exercise science profession, including the objectives, structure, history, philosophy and biological aspects of physical education and their field applications.
Credit Hours: 2
A standard course leading to Red Cross certification in first aid and in personal safety and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This course prepares students to act as citizen responders.
Credit Hours: 2
Develops fundamental skills and methods for teaching swimming and water safety.
Credit Hours: 1
Covers methods and procedures for teaching tennis. May be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 1
An interdisciplinary approach to education in the outdoors, combining lectures, observations, field investigations and practical experiences in camping, canoeing, fish and wildlife management, environmental control and other concomitants of the outdoors. Two hours may be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 4
Covers methods of teaching the recreational sports of archery, badminton and golf. May be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 2
Prepares students for teaching educational gymnastics, tumbling and apparatus. May be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 3
Familiarization with the field of athletic training and the basic techniques, principles and theories underlying the prevention and care of a variety of athletic injuries and conditions.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
Prerequisites:
HSC 220 or
HSC 230. Pre- or corequisities:
ESC 150 or
HSC 150. Alternately, students may meet the
ESC 150 prerequsite by providing documentation of current First Aid & CPR with AED certification and approval by the department.
A comprehensive discussion of corporate fitness that stresses fitness testing, prescriptive fitness programs and the role of fitness centers in the corporate/community structure.
Credit Hours: 3
This is an elective course that will appeal to students who are interested in learning about human behavior during sports and exercise. It examines what motivates us, frightens us, angers us and affects our performance of physical activity or sport. Strategies for improving competitive skills, dealing with competitive pressure, maximizing performance and promoting emotional and cognitive health and well-being will be explored. In particular, this course will appeal to students majoring in human performance, athletic training, sport management, physical education, and allied health.
Credit Hours: 3
A comprehensive discussion of movement education, stressing an individual approach to teaching basic movement skills, games and sports.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
EDU 200.
Prepares students for teaching creative rhythmics, folk and square dancing, and aerobic dancing.
Credit Hours: 3
(A)
Focusing on developing and testing skills in participants, as well as officiating in football and wrestling, and examining the psychology of coaching. May be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 2
Focusing on developing and testing skills in participants, as well as officiating in baseball, basketball and softball, and examining the psychology of coaching. May be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 2
Focusing on developing and testing skills in participants of volleyball and track and field, and examining the psychology of coaching. May be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 2
Focusing on developing and testing skills in participants of soccer and field hockey, and examining the psychology of coaching. May be used toward professional activities requirement of adult fitness concentration.
Credit Hours: 2
A comprehensive approach to coaching athletics, including planning, values, psychology, roles and goals.
Credit Hours: 3
A study of motor development through the life cycle, with emphasis on physical growth, the effects of exercise, fundamental motor patterns and developmental skill acquisition.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
HSC 220 or
HSC 230.
A study of bone-muscle relationships and problems of analysis in human motion as related to the muscular skills in body mechanics and athletics.
Credit Hours: 3
(W)
Prerequisites
HSC 220 or
HSC 230.
This course will provide ESC adult fitness and teaching majors with the proper form, mechanics and cues to perform and present fundamental movement skills safely. In addition, majors will learn proper execution. They will also identify and analyze movement errors, and develop appropriate correction and cueing. The basics of assessment, presentation, observation and correction will be applied as students work with individuals and lead groups with the intent of developing motor and fitness skills and routines.
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisites
HSC 100 and
HSC 220 or
HSC 230.
Studies trends in exercise habits, exercise evaluations and the process for clients developing a total wellness approach to living. Students will learn to apply principles of developing a fitness program. Lab fees for personal trainer certification examination required. Current First Aid/CPR certification required for certification examination.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
HSC 220 or
HSC 230 (
ESC 340 recommended).
Examines the special physical education and physical fitness needs of individuals with chronic or functional handicaps.
Credit Hours: 3
(W)
A study of the organizational patterns and administrative processes involved in leisure-oriented organizations.
Credit Hours: 2
An analysis of sports from a sociological perspective. Investigates sport theory from historical to modern contexts. Includes a critical appraisal of the expanding literature on the origins, functions and effects of sports in society.
Credit Hours: 3
Open only to junior and senior exercise science majors whose concentration is teaching physical education, and exercise science students whose concentration is adult fitness. A study of the available tests, measurement and assessment procedures for the physical education or fitness instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
ESC 105 and
ESC 110 or
HSC 200
Develops knowledge and understanding of the function and limitations of the organism during exercise.
Credit Hours: 3
(W)
Prerequisites
HSC 220 or
HSC 230.
An instructional program that includes supervised pre-professional practice in approved recreational service agencies. Involves observation and participation in planning, conducting and evaluating at the face-to-face supervisory and executive levels of leadership. Graded on a pass/fail basis.
Credit Hours: 4-6
Prerequisites
Completion of 6 credit hours of professional courses and departmental approval.
Offers practical experience in health and fitness center programming. Admission by application to the department chair. Students must provide proof of current CPR certification, and may be required to provide individual liability insurance. Graded on a pass/fail basis. This course may be repeated for credit for a maximum of 12 credit hours.
Credit Hours: 2-12
Prerequisites
Senior academic status and departmental approval.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an advanced understanding of how to read, present, and interpret data involved in exercise science research.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
ESC 380 and senior status
A seminar and/or independent study incorporating special issues in the field of physical education. May be repeated for credit.
Credit Hours: 1-4
Prerequisites
Junior standing.
This course provides the student with a comprehensive overview of advanced dimensions and theory of strength and conditioning. It will cover multiple components of strength & conditioning and how they relate to human performance. The course will analyze acute training variables (exercise choice, order, intensity, volume) on a per training session basis and how they fit within the scope of a training year and career (periodization).
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
ESC 380 and
ESC 460 or a bachelor’s degree in a related field of study. For graduate students only. Must be admitted in the Masters of Science in Exercise Science and Nutrition Science Program, or by special instructor permission.
This is a seminar style course in which students investigate and report on nutrition theories underlying sport nutrition and how it relates to human performance.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
For graduate students only. Must be admitted in the Master of Science in Exercise and Nutrition Science Program, or by special instructor permission.
This course covers, in depth, theories on the physiological responses to exercise in untrained, trained, and athletic populations. It provides students with an advanced understanding of the role physiological responses to exercise training.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
ESC 380 and
ESC 460. For graduate students only. Must be admitted in the Masters of Science in Exercise Science and Nutrition Science Program, or by special instructor permission.
This is an interactive course in which students investigate applications used in exercise science by experts in the field and report on the scientific efficacy and application of these practices. The course also involves application of theory using various case studies throughout the semester.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites
For graduate students only. Must be admitted in the Masters of Science in Exercise Science and Nutrition Science Program, or by special instructor permission.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a hands on advanced understanding of how to utilize laboratory techniques associated with nutrition and exercise science. Including but not limited to body composition analysis, ultrasonography, isokinetic, isotonic, and isometric force testing. Strength and power assessment, as well as a review of important exercise techniques.
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisites
ESC 380. For graduate students only. Must be admitted in the Master of Science in Exercise and Nutrition Science Program, or by special instructor permission.