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2019-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Exercise Science, BS Human Performance and Fitness Concentration

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General Education Requirements

Foundations (15-16 crs.)

Foundational courses coupled with other experiences provide students with their core First Year Experience, providing opportunities to develop the requisite quantitative, analytical, written communication, and oral communication skills needed to succeed while in college and throughout life after college. Five program goals express the purpose of these foundational courses and how they support student success.

Interconnections (9 crs.)

This curriculum will provide students with opportunities to explore human behavior, social interactions, and global communities through humanities and the social and behavioral sciences. Open discourse about the causes and consequences of human behavior and thought, and the interconnectedness of societies revealed by examining traditions and structures, provides a pathway to mutual respect and tolerance in a diverse world.

Three program goals express what we will do for students. Each goal has an associated rubric that outlines what we expect students to learn or accomplish. Students must complete three (3) courses in this curriculum, with at least one (1) course being a diversity course (‘D’ rubric) and at least one (1) course being a global perspectives course (‘G’ rubric).

Diversity

Guide and prompt students to evaluate the diversity of human experience, behavior, and thought, in order to better understand ourselves and others, to respond to the roots of inequality that undermines social justice, while developing awareness regarding diversity in culture, ethnicity, race, gender/gender expression, religion, age, social class, sexual orientation, or abilities.

Global Perspectives

Guide and prompt students to develop global perspectivesby analyzing systems, and evaluating interrelationships

Foreign Language

Guide and prompt students to understand and demonstrate oral and written communication in a foreign language as well as awareness of a foreign culture.

Natural World and Technology (9 crs.)

This curriculum will provide students the opportunity to learn how new knowledge is created by applying scientific principles and technology to address historical and contemporary questions. Two program goals express what we will do for students. Each goal has an associated rubric that outlines what we expect students to learn or accomplish.

Students must complete 3 courses in this curriculum, with at least two (2) courses (or their equivalents) involving the natural world (‘N’ rubric).

Natural World

Guide and prompt students to understand the scientific method and resulting principles and theories, critically evaluating data to answer questions about the natural world.

Creativity and Expression (6 crs.)

This part of the curriculum will provide students with opportunities to explore artistic and literary disciplines and their modes of expression, considering the processes by which artistic works are imagined and created as well as the analytical tools for describing and appraising works of art and literature. Each goal has an associated rubric that outlines what we expect students to learn or accomplish.

Students must complete two (2) courses (or their equivalents) in this curriculum, with one (1) course being a literature course (‘L’ rubric)and one course in either the arts or creativity (‘A’ or ‘C’ rubrics).

Literature

Guide and prompt students to comprehend, analyze, and determine the significance for works of literature.

Arts

Guide and prompt students to describe, analyze, and respond to the scope of works in the arts.

Creative

Guide and prompt students to demonstrate and apply creative competencies, problem solving and preparation in the realization of a creative work.

Free Elective Courses (19-20 cr.)

ESC courses may be taken as free electives

Exercise Science Requirements (54 cr.)

All core and Human Performance and Fitness concentration courses must be completed with a C or higher

Core Courses (29 cr.)

Human Performance and Fitness Concentration Courses (25 cr.)

Elective Course Options

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