17 courses with the subject EXSC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
EXSC 1110Wellness for Life. This course provides
each student an opportunity to assess their wellbeing through a battery of physical fitness tests. Class content includes basic principles that support a physically active lifestyle. Each student is challenged to consider the personal, spiritual, and social responsibilities of maintaining an implementation of physical activity ......................................................................
This course will explore a variety of personal and community health issues including personal hygiene, disease prevention, healthy lifestyle decisions, mental health, drug and alcohol use and abuse, safety education, and environmental health ......................
EXSC 2500Introduction to Nutrition. This course is
designed to provide students with basic knowledge of nutrition as it relates to preparing athletes for practice, training, and game competition. This class will look into the latest technologies available and how to use them in keeping with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans ....................................................................
EXSC 2510Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries4
Examines the incidence, causes, prevention, and treatment of sports-related injuries. Topics stressed are conditioning for sports, injury recognition, and evaluation, taping techniques, first-aid care, treatment, and reconditioning of athletic injuries.....................
Practice. This course is designed to provide students with basic knowledge of physical conditioning and research for many different sports, both individual and team. The class will also examine and implement a multitude of fitness assessments to determine baseline data and training procedures ...................................... 2 s.h
includes the application of basic psychological principles to everyday coaching situations and problems .......................................................................
.... 2 s.h. Health Sciences. This course focuses on the interaction of the components of the research process with application to the theory and practices of Healthcare. This course emphasizes the critical appraisal and utilization of health-related research including selected theories and ethical considerations. Critical and reflective thinking, as a health-care clinician who provides evidence-based practice, will be emphasized. This course is designed to prepare students to write their own case study or research project ..................
Populations. This course provides a study of the recommended procedures for exercise testing and prescription for special populations, children, youth, elderly and pregnant women. It includes an in-depth analysis of the biological, behavioral, and environmental factors that influence initial and continued participation in physical activity ............
Disease. This course will provide knowledge of the 2 s.h. evidence-based relationship between exercise, diet patterns and behaviors, and major chronic diseases. Students will obtain an understanding of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of prevailing chronic diseases ...........................................................
course is designed to further develop the student to an advanced level of theory and practical application in exercise training and performance. Specific emphasis is placed on components of strength training and conditioning including but not limited to aerobic and 281
EXSC 3680Kinesiology. An analysis of the mechanics4
of human movement. Involves a study of the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems and the basic principles underlying motor skill................................................
EXSC 3700Health Fitness Assessment. This course is4
designed to develop the student’s competency to assess the health and physical fitness of various populations. Emphasis will be placed on fitness appraisal and the development of individualized exercise regimen. Students will critically evaluate the status of their clients’ health and physical fitness, create individualized exercise programs, and implement the programs with measurable objectives. Students will monitor their clients’ progress using outcomes and fitness measures pertinent to the clients’ health and fitness goals. Students will utilize the exercise science laboratory to measure maximal and submaximal graded exercise, cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, body composition, balance, flexibility, and fundamental movement quality................................
of the neuromuscular and mechanical principles and how they influence human movement. The purpose this course is to introduce students to concepts of mechanics as they apply to human movement, particularly those pertaining to exercise, sport, and physical activity. The student should gain an understanding of the mechanical and anatomical principles that govern human motion and develop the ability to link the structure of the human body with its function from a mechanical perspective..................
Integrate faculty-led opportunity into education through participation in planned, supervised experiential-learning. Students will apply related skills by following a set of objectives, reflecting on activities, and obtaining feedback from their supervisors. For a complete description of Internships and Cooperative Education, see the Internship/ Cooperative section under the Academic Policies section ............. credit to be arranged
