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2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Sports and Exercise Studies, B.S.

Location(s): Main Campus


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Major Code: (7441)

Bachelor of Science Learning Outcomes

The successful student is able to:

  • Plan safe and effective exercise programs that will develop those physiological mechanisms needed to support and enhance the performance of skilled athletes, develop the physical fitness of healthy non-athletes, and reduce the effects of hypokinetic diseases in the general population.
  • Demonstrate the ability to perform client-appropriate fitness assessments for the health-related components of physical fitness, including cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, body composition, and flexibility.
  • Describe the scientific basis of exercise programming, incorporating knowledge from exercise physiology, human anatomy, biomechanics, and motor learning.
  • Describe basic concepts in regard to the relationship between nutrition and health/performance outcomes.
  • Analyze human movement skills, diagnose errors, and then prescribe modifications that will enhance the effectiveness of movement skill performance.

Degree Requirements


General Education must include:


General Education Total: 39


Select two activity courses (NOT weight training)


Personal Electives: 21


Total Major Hours: 62-63


Total Hours Required For Degree: 122-123


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