The MS in Exercise Science is an interdisciplinary program emphasizes the role of exercise in health improvement and in the primary and secondary prevention of chronic degenerative disease. The curriculum addresses the interrelationships among life-style, health, and physical activity, and optimization of human performance. Practical experience is gained through clinical, corporate and/or commercial internship sites.
We also offer a Graduate Certificate in Exercise Science that will meet the needs of a select group of graduate students seeking to improve their skills in specialized areas of exercise science, such as ergonomics, human performance analysis, sport science and health promotion.
Our Graduate Certificate in Clinical Exercise Science is designed to offer advanced, graduate-level courses in exercise science to individuals wishing to prepare for the rigors of clinical exercise science practice.
Our Graduate Certificate in Corporate and Worksite Wellness is designed to offer advanced graduate courses to prepare exercise science practitioners for the demands of careers in corporate and worksite wellness.
Our Graduate Certificate in Complementary Medicine and Wellness is a course of study emphasizing patient/client counseling, and education about health promotion, disease prevention, wellness and complementary therapies. Goals include helping patients/clients achieve a level of well-being that reaches beyond merely the absence of disease. Participants will learn to optimize the patient/client-practitioner relationship while promoting health across the identified wellness dimensions: physical, psychological, environmental, spiritual and social. Recent trends in health care delivery have challenged practitioners and educators to integrate alternative approaches that are complementary into traditional practice, and to teach methods for evaluating their safety and effectiveness.