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  Jul 13, 2025
 
2011-2012 School of Law Bulletin 
    
2011-2012 School of Law Bulletin [Archived Catalog]

Exercise Science, Ph.D.


Learning Outcomes


  • Doctoral students will describe the relationship among physical activity, functional capacity, health and disease across the life span.
  • Doctoral students will describe the research design and statistical procedures used in exercise science.
  • Doctoral students will write a dissertation addressing a specific encompassing research question within exercise science.
  • Doctoral students will demonstrate laboratory proficiency through written and practical evaluations.
  • Doctoral students will describe the physiological changes that occur during a single session of exercise and the physiological adaptations that take place with repeated exercise sessions and how environmental conditions influence these responses.
  • Doctoral students will describe the mechanisms that regulate the biological events when an organism is stressed and how they apply to health and disease.
  • Health Aspects of Physical Activity Doctoral students will describe the relationship between physical activity, behavior and health.
  • Doctoral students will describe the theory and literature regarding the interaction of behavior and environmental stimuli and how they apply to health and disease.
  • Motor Control and Rehabilitation Doctoral students will describe the relationship between age and motor skill acquisition in healthy and special populations.
  • Doctoral students will describe the theory and literature regarding the neurological development and changes with aging, and the relationship to motor skill acquisition in healthy and special populations.