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Explore and engage in critical topics within the kinesiology field. The program provides educational opportunities and a variety of practical experiences that prepare students for a professional career and advanced study. Kinesiology graduates pursue careers in the fitness, exercise, sports, and health industries.

The kinesiology major offers students the opportunity to explore and engage in critical topics within the field and its related sub-disciplines, prepare for varied professional opportunities, and bring a Christ-centered perspective to the fitness, exercise, sports, and health industries. The program provides educational opportunities and a variety of practical experiences that help prepare students for a professional career and/or advanced study. Energetic, well-educated students receive instruction in a model designed to promote retention, community building, and cooperative learning.

Learning Outcomes:

• Articulate the principles of kinesiology and its sub-disciplines in an academic/professional environment.
• Understand and apply protocols and processes necessary for evaluation and determination of specific requirements, corrective suggestions, and individual decision-making for specific needs implementation.
• Critically integrate redemptive Christian perspectives in theory and practice.
• Achieve and establish significant subject specific relationships.
• Demonstrate a level of skill and knowledge necessary for employment.
• Detail and analyze organizational fundamentals of athletic concepts and management.
• Define current and anticipated systems of application related to sports, health, pedagogy, and allied health.
• Analyze and evaluate the nature and cause of biomechanical injury and design and implement procedures of restoration.
• Engage in further research and documentation aspects in all core areas.
• Engage in graduate level certification, master, and doctoral degrees in related fields (i.e. teaching certification, physical therapy, medicine, and others).