Designed to provide graduate students exposure to the knowledge and practical experience necessary for establishing strength development programs in a variety of populations, including healthy, athletic, and higher risk individuals. Program design, correct lifting techniques, physiological adaptations, and organization and administration of programs are highlighted. Includes fundamentals regarding the selection of programs and equipment, spotting techniques, as well as ways to assess strength and power in humans without expensive equipment.

This course is designed to provide students exposure to the knowledge and practical experience necessary for establishing exercise programs in apparently healthy populations. Topics include fitness testing, test interpretation, and exercise prescription. Prereq: KIN: Exercise Science major.

Factors of outstanding athletic achievement; psychological variables in competition; the actions and interactions of sport, spectator, and athlete. Special attention to directed to strategies for coaches, teachers, and athletic trainers to utilize sport psychology in their professional practice. Prereq: introduction to psychology.

Adventure educators are often called to work with people facing short-term psychological challenges like being effective in a group or managing fear and discomfort in a vigorous learning environment. Because the adventure environment can be psychologically demanding, an understanding of basic psychology is an advantage both for effective practice and research. Course emphasizes the history of psychological research to provide a foundation for the adventure educator's work leading, designing and evaluating adventure-based programs.