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2011-2012 School of Law Bulletin [Archived Catalog]
Exercise Science, Ph.D.
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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.
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