SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE 453
SPRT 404: Movement Analysis and Biomechanics in Athletic Coaching This course is a comprehensive, practitioner oriented experience aimed at providing current, relevant and skill-oriented instruction to current or potential sports coaches. The objective of the course is to introduce the principles of biomechanics and movement skill analysis to current and potential coaches. Prerequisite: None Lecture: Internet offering 3 credits, variable SPRT 414: Motor Development Across the Lifespan This class will address a wide variety of topics within the field of motor development. Specifically, the course will discuss motor development from conception through adulthood. The class will incorporate dynamic systems theory with the hourglass model of the stages of motor development in explaining the process of human growth and associated skill proficiency development. Lecture: Three hours per week. 3 credits, Fall SPRT 415: Principles of Motor Learning and Performance This course examines the many aspects of learning and executing motor skills. Teaching methodology, learning theories, neurophysiological phenomena, maturational and psychosocial factors are investigated as they relate to movement patterns in sport and physical activity. Lecture: Three hours per week. 3 credits, Spring SPRT 416: Human Motor Control This course will be directed at studying the nature of movement and how that movement is controlled. Sample topics include such issues as the role of the central nervous system in the organization of movement, the role of sensory information and how the body uses this information to select and control movement, the best ways to study movement and the identification and measurement of those with movement disorders. Lecture: Three hours per week. 3 credits, Spring SPRT 420: Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries General foundations and specific concepts related to injury prevention, evaluation, management, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries are presented. This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic knowledge and skills necessary to recognize, evaluate, and treat athletic injuries of the head and face, spine and torso, and extremities. Prerequisite: SPRT360/361 required Lecture/Lab: Three hours per week. 3 credits, Spring SPRT 424: Biomechanics The purpose of this course is to apply the knowledge gained in previous courses to human movement contexts. Specifically, the student will apply the principles of physics to sport and exercise settings. Prerequisite: SPRT360/361 required Lecture/Lab: Three hours per week. 3 credits, Spring SPRT 425: Clinical Exercise Physiology This course will provide classroom and informal laboratory experiences that take full advantage of current knowledge and trends in rehabilitation of populations with cardiac, pulmonary and metabolic disorders through assessment and specific exercise programming. The course will also expose the student to the interpretation of electrocardiograms both at rest and during submaximal and maximal exercise bouts. Prerequisites: SPRT390/391 required Lecture: Three hours per week. 3 credits, Spring SPRT 430: Practicum in Sports and Exercise Science This course is designed to provide clinical learning experiences that allow the Sport and Exercise Science student to synthesize knowledge and Sport/Exercise Science concepts in a variety of practice settings. Provides majors with clinically-based learning experiences to