Join the Department of Sports Medicine and Human Performance and become part of our “Exercise is Medicine” campus. Our community values hands-on experiences, fosters professional growth, and equips candidates for success in the dynamic fields of human movement.
As a Movement Science Major, you’ll kickstart your adventure with 27 credits of interdisciplinary Movement Science core courses, paving your way to comprehensive understanding, critical thinking, and community building. That’s just the beginning. Choose one of our five dynamic concentrations for specialization, including: Sports Medicine, Physical Education Licensure, Exercise Science, Preventive Care and Physical Activity, or Adventure Education.
Round out your experiences with one of our minors. Whatever your concentration, you will graduate with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be career ready in your path of interest.
Choose from Five Concentrations
The Sports Medicine Concentration is a pre-professional track that prepares candidates for graduate school in areas such as physical therapy, athletic training, occupational therapy, physician assistant, and medicine. This concentration is unique because it provides candidates with hands-on classroom experiences, a focus on fitness, wellness and movement, and the clinical opportunities that give graduate applicants an upper-hand. Moreover, this concentration is flexible to the needs of your chosen field and graduate schools you select.
Physical Education Licensure (Elementary or Secondary)
The Physical Education Concentration prepares candidates with necessary knowledge and skills to obtain a Physical Education teaching license in the state of Massachusetts, and to teach elementary or secondary Physical Education. Candidates may choose to follow a non-licensure track, which prepares them to work in after-school or day activity programs that do not require a teaching license.
The Exercise Science Concentration is designed for candidates interested in preventive, performance and post-rehabilitative fitness positions in community, commercial, corporate, and hospital settings or to continue in related professional or graduate work. Candidates are prepared for nationally recognized certifications, specifically those offered by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Candidates will gain the knowledge and skills to conduct and interpret physical fitness assessments, design and implement scientifically based exercise prescriptions, counsel behavior modification and manage physical activity programs and facilities. Exercise science candidates work with individual and groups of athletes as well as people across the lifespan who are healthy or have medically controlled disease to improve function and maintain behaviors to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Preventative Care and Physical Activity
The Preventive Care and Physical Activity Concentration is designed for candidates interested in preventive health interventions and becoming advocates and agents of change in their communities. Candidates focus on health equity and preventive health interventions through the lens of multiple health-behavior models, as well as inter-professional- and team-based- leadership. This track is flexible to student areas of interest, including business, coaching, psychology, communication, etc.
Adventure Education administers an experiential curriculum to provide an outdoor education degree for traditional and alternative teaching methods both in the classroom and in the field. This meets the needs of the student’s technical and theoretical foundation of becoming a professional in the field of outdoor adventure leadership.
