Courses Offered

Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. The objective of this course is to analyze methodologies used to track/monitor the loads imposed on athletes during training and competition. The validity, reliability, and efficacy of methodologies will be evaluated. Students will review performance testing, data acquisition, and data analysis and will develop data visualizations that relate the status of an athlete to the sports performance team. 

4 to 8 hours. Prerequisite: successful completion of course requirements in an area of study; students must complete a minimum of 24 course hours, including all core requirements before enrolling in internship; internship hours will be addition to normal course requirements (i.e., 30-32). May be taken on a semester or two-semester basis; maximum credit eight hours. Field experience in area of study. Students will participate in on-the-job experiences in a wide range of hosting agencies, businesses, and institutions. 

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines major global health challenges, programs and policies. Students will be introduced to the world's vast diversity of determinants of health and disease, and current and emerging global health priorities will be discussed, including: emerging infectious diseases, poverty, conflicts and emergencies, health inequity, health systems reforms, and major global initiatives for disease prevention and health promotion. 

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Will provide students with a basic introduction to the principles of health promotion. Specific topics will include risk appraisal and risk reduction, behavior change theories, program planning and management, holistic health/wellness, and others.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Help Students gain awareness of stress and its effects, practice management techniques to reduce personal stress, develop stress research skills and learn ways to implement stress management into their lives as well as into the lives of others (in schools, the community, worksites, etc.).

Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Examination of the processes used to evaluate health promotion and health education programs. Includes: needs assessment, quality assurance evaluation, summarative evaluation, data analysis, and cost benefit analysis strategies.

Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Focuses on behavioral theories and research which are pertinent to understanding factors/conditions that influence the development of and change processes related to health behavior in individuals or small groups such as family units. It is designed to provide a knowledge and theoretical base of integration of behavioral principles into research design and health promotion programming. 

Prerequisite: Industrial Engineering 4824; Zoology 3104 or 3133; Physiology 5016 or 5019; or permission of instructor. Advanced study of physiological reponses, regulatory mechanisms and adaptations of human performance and health; factors affecting performance and health; and training and evaluative techniques.

Prerequisite: 5823 or permission. Laboratory experiments of a theoretical and applied nature emphasizing advanced concepts of physiological mechanisms, regulating responses and adaptation to exercise. Analytical and prescriptive methodologies pertaining to the energy, muscular and cardiorespiratory systems, including body composition techniques. 

Prerequisite: 3513 or 4513 and Zoology 3133, or equivalent; graduate standing. A multidisciplinary study of health-fitness theories and their applications in preventive health. Emphases are threefold; first, to understand the underlying theoretical framework of epidemiological, biological and behavioral concepts; second, to develop skills to implement programs emphasizing physical fitness assessment and prescription; thirds, to critically examine the role of physical activity and fitness strategies in preventitve and therapeutic health settings. 

Prerequisite: Physiology 2124, 3104 or Zoology 3133, or permission of instructor. Discuss the various theories of aging as well as the age expected changes in the various physiological systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, muscle, bone, nerve, and body composition). In addition, exercise programming concerns for the aged as well as the possible benefits of exercise during aging will be discussed.

Prerequisite: 5823 or permission from instructor. In-depth examination of the role of the endocrine system on regulating acute and chronic metabolic responses to exercise. Special endocrine issues related to exercise physiology (i.e., diabetes) will be studied. 

Prerequisite: graduate standing, and one or more of the following: HES 5953, MIT 5742, EIPT 6023, ECON 4233, PSY 5013, or MATH 5773; or permission of instructor. Sports analytics refers to the use of data and quantitative methods to measure performance and make decisions within a sports business. This course builds on statistics courses and is deisgned to help students develop and apply analytical skills using various sports contexts. The primary objective is to help students understand what data can and cannot do for sport organizations.

1 to 6 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission. Completion of research project under faculty supervision. Meets research requirement for non-thesis option.

Prerequisite: graduate standing. Methods and techniques used in the design and interpretation of health promotion and exercise science research. Emphasis on scientific writing and library use.

1 to 6 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing, permission. Designed for graduate students to provide them with an opportunity to investigate selected problems in the field. Thirty hours library and research work for each credit hour. Consultations with instructor required. Written reports required for all students in a nonthesis program.

Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. The application of techniques used to organize, analyze, and interpret statistical data unique to health and exercise science. Topics include measures of central tendency, measures of variability, percentiles, sampling, correlation, regression, standard scores, and tests  of significance through repeated measures ANOVA and including parametric, non-parametric tests. 

Variable enrollment, two to nine hours; maximum credit applicable toward degree, four hours. Required of all students writing master's thesis. Consultations with major professor required as thesis progresses.

1 to 6 hours. Prequisite: graduate standing or permission. A study of selected problems under guidance of instructor. At least twenty-five hours of library and research time required for each hour of credit carried. Final paper required.

Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Course will consist of variable topics in health and exercise science. 

Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Provides a theoretical and skill base to apply basic epidemiology principles and to critically evaluate the application of basic epidemiology research methods in health promotion. Heavily emphasizes application of concepts and student participation in the learning process. 

Prerequisite: 5523 or permission of instructor. Focuses on the incorporation of basic marketing principles into strategies for behavioral and social change. Targeted outcomes include individual behaviors, group/population norms, environmental supports and policies pertinent to health promotion and/or public health issues.

Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. An examination of physical activity and exercise as they relate to health status and chronic disease prevention. Special emphasis will be placed on epidemiologic evidence of physical activity benefits across the lifespan in a variety of chronic disease states.

Prerequisite: HES 5553 or permission of instructor. Issues related to measurement and evaluation in health promotion will be discussed. Different measurement techniques and instruments used in health promotion will be examined and critiqued, and principles of instrument development will be addressed. Issues related to the evaluation of health promotion program outcomes will serve as a context for the course.

Prerequisite: 5563 or permission of instructor. Focuses on behavioral theories and research which are pertinent to understanding macro influences on health behavior. It is designed to provide a knowledge and theoretical base for integration of behavioral principles in health promotion programming. Particular emphasis is placed on community, organizational, and population based intervention.

Prerequisite: 5563 or permission of instructor. Focuses on behavioral theories and research which are pertinent to understanding macro influences on health behavior. It is designed to provide a knowledge and theoretical base for integration of behavioral principles in health promotion programming. Particular emphasis is placed on community, organizational, and population based intervention. 

Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Covers a variety of topics in signal acquisition and processing, including sampling theory, filtering, and frequency analysis. Special emphasis will be placed on conditioning biological signals and the development of signal analysis programs using labview programming software.

Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Examines pulmonary structure and function as they relate to the process in which oxygen passes from the atmosphere to arterial blood. heavily emphasizes the principles of ventilation, diffusion, blood flow, ventilation-perfusion relationships, gas transport, mechanics of breathing, acid-base balance, nd the control of ventilation. In addition, an evaluation of how these principles are affected by exercise, disease, and healthy aging is included.

Prerequisite: 5823 or permission of instructor. This course covers a variety of topics in cardiorespiratory exercise physiology, including factors that regulate fatigue during endurance exercise, factors that limit maximal aerobic power, regulation of heart rate and blood flow during isometric and dynamic exercise, and cardiovascular adaptations to aerobic training programs. Assessment techniques for cardiorespiratory function will be discussed in depth. Laboratory. 

Prerequisite: 5823 or permission of instructor. Theoretical and applied aspects of body composition assessment. Topics include limitations and usefulness of laboratory and field methods for assessing body composition in research, clinical and health/fitness settings. Evaluation of body composition research and application to health and clinical populations. Laboratory.

Prerequisite: 5823 or permission of instructor. This course examines the structure and function of the central and peripheral nervous systems and skeletal muscle. Emphasis will be placed on how the central nervous system and motor units respond to conditions such as fatigue, exercise training, vibration, stretching, injury and disease. Laboratory.

Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Provide basic understanding of selected chronic diseases including assessment, disease process, pharmacological and medical treatment and intervention strategies for reducing risk. 

Prerequisite: 5823 or permission of instructor. Provide in-depth examination of the energy metabolism during exercise and the role of endocrine system in regulating acute and chronic metabolic responses to exercise. Special endocrine issues related to physiology (i.e., diabetes) will be studied. Laboratory.

Prerequisite: 5823 or permission of instructor. Conceptual and measurement issues in health promotion and exercise science. Knowledge, attitude, and behavior assessment, principles of instrument construction, and assessment of physical activity, physical fitness, and human performance.

Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Special reading programs are designed to enable graduate students (1) to extend their study to fields that are not covered in other courses and/or (2) to provide an opportunity for more intensive study of subjects covered in other courses.

1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing in HES or permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of subject matter; maximum credit four hours. Study of pertinent and current problems of research. Students may use seminars to identify and develop area of dissertation research.

2 to 12 hours.

1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: master's degree and permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours. Supervised research for advanced graduate students on major projects with a faculty member.