About

The Bachelor of Science - Exercise Science prepares students to enter career areas that guide healthy human functioning across the general health to athletic performance spectrum. Potential employment encompasses corporate health-wellness programs, private health-fitness organizations, non-profit/community activity centers, institutional recreation centers, athlete identification and development programs, personal training, and specialty strength and conditioning coaching.

Program Learner Outcomes

Upon successful completition of this program, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of structural components and the interrelationships between these structural components in the human organism.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the physiologic processes that govern organism functioning and maintain homeostasis with specific emphasis on humans.
• Describe the impact of personal behaviors - lifestyle decisions (e.g.) physical activity and energy balance on human structural and functional integrity.
• Identify, describe, and employ the various components of scientific inquiry including deductive reasoning, the analysis of data and the establishment of defensible conclusions.
• Apply the knowledge and skills developed and honed through the many directed and experiential learning components of the didactic program, to the “real-world” setting.

Courses

All courses for this major require a grade of C or better.

Recommended 4-Year Academic Plan

The following table gives a brief illustration of a standard four-year plan for successful completion of the exercise science major. General Education and other non-major aspects of graduation are determined by General Academic Advising and Degree Checkout, not the exercise science program. The following table is merely a guideline. For a detailed four-year plan please click (Here).

Contacts

Patrick Coffey
Academic Advisor for Health Sciences
Bouillon Hall 205
Drop-In Advising: Wed. 8-11am, Thur. 8-10am
(509) 963-3580
patrick.coffey@cwu.edu

Dr. Timothy Burnham
Program Director, Exercise Science
(509) 963-1764
tim.burnham@cwu.edu