Active Course List

2024-2025


Human Performance

The advanced study of legal aspects of sport with emphasis constitutional and statutory law, negligence and risk management, intellectual property, and contract law. The use of case law study and application to sport settings is utilized.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

Advanced study of the principles of marketing of or through sport including marketing analysis, development of a marketing management plan, promotion, place, price, public relations, product as applied to sport and the sport industry.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
International Sport Management (MS)

Analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of one's personal experiences related to the teaching of physical education as well as a review of practitioner and research-based articles to enhance one's teaching ability in physical education.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

This course covers the principles of health care organization, administration, and professional development as applied to various athletic training employment settings. Students will gain an emphasis on the administrative and managerial duties of the athletic trainer including management, leadership, organizational structure, planning, budgeting, facility design, information management, regulation of athletic training, as well as legal and ethical considerations. This course is designed for the graduate athletic training student.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

This course provides understanding and application of the psychology of sport and injury. Topics include psychological concerns, psycho-social antecedents of injury, psychological skills to implement with patients who are injured as a result of participation in athletics and physical activity.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (MS)

This course covers media and communications in the world of international sport business.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
International Sport Management (MS)

Opportunity for in-depth studies when specific human performance course is not available to accommodate the student. Consultation with the faculty member is an important part of developing such topics that meet the individual study arrangement.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Exercise Physiology (MS)

An arranged readings course of selected professional literature relating to physical education, human performance, exercise science, and sport studies. The student in consultation with a professor determines the specific body of scholarly literature that will be emphasized during the course.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Exercise Physiology (MS)

This is an advanced graduate seminar that will involve the oversight of practicum activities in sport, exercise and performance psychology. Cases will be presented by each graduate student to stimulate direct and indirect supervision. Ethical, multicultural and legal issues associated with applied work will be discussed.Grading Method

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (MS)

This is an advanced graduate seminar focused on cultural sport psychology and how to work with diverse populations in the field. This class will explore multicultural counseling theories and competencies as well as additional topics including oppression, discrimination, biases, prejudices, white privilege and acculturation to assist sport psychology professionals in being cultural competent.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

The supervised application and analysis of clinical techniques and the evidence-based practice research necessary for the high level care of patients suffering from injuries and illnesses incurred through or exacerbated by athletics and physical activity. The required clinical experience component will provide the student with the opportunity to apply these skills in the clinical environment and serve as a capstone experience.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

The supervised application and analysis of clinical techniques and the evidence-based practice research necessary for the high level of care for patients suffering from injuries and illnesses incurred through or exacerbated by athletics and physical activity. The required clinical experience component will provide the student with the opportunity to apply these skills in the clinical environment, serve as a capstone experience, and assist the student in preparation for the athletic training Board of Certification examination.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

Using a population health management perspective, students will gain a strong foundation in the physiology of exercise as medicine and the application of exercise prescription in coordination with the healthcare team.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

This course is designed to provide a rigorous, comprehensive hands-on learning experience for students majoring in Sport Management. This more closely supervised field experience requires a rigorous time and energy commitment from students.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
International Sport Management (MS)

In this course, students will develop and present evidence-based solutions to community-driven questions. Students will integrate academic research into real-world project development.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Exercise Physiology (MS)

Designed to provide the student with hands-on experience in the area of corporate and community fitness.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration

Course requires completion of alternate plan paper.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (MS)

Course requires completion of a manuscript submitted for publication to a peer-reviewed journal. Prerequisite: graduate student/professor consent

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (MS)

Supervised field experience related to the student's academic specialization associated with the disciplines of human performance. Disciplines include the following: College Teaching, Sport Management, Public School Teaching, D/APE, Intramural-Recreational Sports Management, Elementary Physical Education, Exercise Physiology, and Sport Psychology.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
International Sport Management (MS) | Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (MS)

Course requires completion of thesis paper.

Areas of Interest:
Business, Management, and Administration
Programs:
Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology (MS)

Humanities

An introduction to Humanities and its themes of study, including an exploration of the diversity of world cultures and multiple forms of creativity and expression. aspects of interactions among peoples across the world. Students will think critically about and increase their understanding of diverse human perspectives and global relationships.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies

An introduction to the history of humankind through the lens of the humanities--language and literature, art and architecture, music, philosophy, and religion. Through the study of the humanities, we aim not only to know but also to understand what humans across time have thought about and created from earliest times through the 15th century.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies

An introduction to the history of humankind through the lens of the humanities--language and literature, art and architecture, music, philosophy, and religion. Through the study of the humanities, we aim not only to know but also to understand what humans across time have thought about and created from High Renaissance through the 21st century.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies

An introduction to the cultures and traditions of Asia and Africa through focused interdisciplinary humanities topics--language and literature, art and architecture, music, philosophy, and religion. Through the study of the humanities, we aim not only to know but also to understand how culture has influenced humans to develop and express their ideas, ideals, and their inner selves. May be repeated with different topics.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies

An introduction to the cultures and traditions of the Americas, Australia, and Oceania regions through focused interdisciplinary humanities topics--language and literature, art and architecture, music, philosophy, and religion. Through the study of the humanities, we aim not only to know but also to understand how culture has influenced humans to develop and express their ideas, ideals, and their inner selves. May be repeated with different topics.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Diverse Cultures - Purple
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies