Enhance your future career by gaining a background in fitness assessment, prescription, and exercise leadership with the 18-credit exercise science minor.

Required Courses (13 credits)

  • KIN 2580 – Principles of Physical Fitness and Conditioning
  • KIN 3580 – Exercise Physiology
  • KIN 3590 – Exercise Psychology Lab
  • KIN 3660 – Exercise Psychology
  • KIN 4580 – Principles of Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription

Choose Five Credits from the Following Courses:

  • ATR 2200 – Basic Athletic Training
  • KIN 2590 – Leadership Techniques for Fitness Programs
  • KIN 2660 – Strength Training and Conditioning
  • KIN 3450 – Management of Health-Fitness Programs and Facilities
  • KIN 3600 – Sociology of Physical Activity and Health
  • KIN 4620 – Medical Aspects of Exercise
  • KIN 4670 – Exercise and Health: Behavior Change
Students participate in a hands-on athletic training session, observing and practicing ankle taping techniques in a campus exercise clinic.

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