The Department of Exercise Science and Sport Studies is an undergraduate program of approximately 650 students offering a BS degree in three distinct programs of study: Exercise Science, Exercise Physiology and Sport Management.
Exercise Science is a laboratory-based science providing students with a strong background in human anatomy and physiology. After two years of basic math and science (biology, chemistry, physics, calculus, statistics, computer science), upper level students study human physiology as it relates to exercise and physical activity via such courses as systems physiology, exercise physiology, kinesiology, and motor learning. Upon completion of the undergraduate program, students are qualified for graduate programs in medicine, exercise physiology, physical or occupational therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, corporate fitness, athletic training, nurse practitioner, physicians assistant, etc. The Exercise Science program has approximately 300 undergraduates, approximately 20% who are pre-med, 50% who are pre-PT or pre-OT, with the remainder equally distributed in exercise physiology, cardiac rehab and corporate fitness.
The Exercise Physiology Option serves about 50 students and while it overlaps considerably with the Exercise Science Option in terms of its basic math and science requirements (biology, chemistry, physics, calculus, statistics, computer science), upper level students focus even more extensively on the study of Biochemistry of Exercise, Advanced Exercise Physiology, and Exercise Testing and Prescriptions.
Sports Management provides students with an extensive background in business and management, beginning with basic courses in economics, accounting, marketing and communications. Upper level students study the application of these basic principles to a wide variety of sport settings via such courses as sport and law, risk management, organization and personnel psychology, sport sociology, sport psychology, sport marketing and management concepts in organizations including but not limited to commercial settings, secondary and collegiate school programs, private and public agencies, professional sport organizations, as well as the manufacture and distribution of goods and services related to sports. Subsequently they enter careers in sport administration, sport marketing, facilities management and commercial sport. The Sport Management program has approximately 300 undergraduates.
The department also sponsors two outreach programs: The Youth Sports Research Council and the The Center for Exercise and Aging . The Youth Sports Research Council provides information for adults who work with children in organized competitive youth sport programs with information about child development issues. Since 1983, the Sports Council has trained more than 150,000 volunteer youth sport coaches in New Jersey alone. The Center for Exercise and Aging provides to undergraduate students, the general public, and administrators of programs serving the needs of seniors, information regarding exercise and aging.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 06 September 2006 )
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