The Division of Exercise Science, Sport, & Recreation (ESSR) is designed for those who would like to have careers in the athletic training, athletic management/marketing, recreation, exercise physiology, fitness, or a similar fields. The ESSR division offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs in the areas of Adult Fitness/Exercise Physiology, Athletic Training, Park and Leisure Services, and Sport Management and Marketing. It also provides hands on training to students in a variety of ways including the Human Performance (HPL), and exercise physiology laboratories and internships in real life settings with practicing clinicians. The laboratories are equipped with the capability of performing a variety of assessments to facilitate education, research, and community service in multiple disciplines that include athletic training, exercise physiology, cardiac rehabilitation, health promotion, and disease prevention.

Exercise Science

Prepares students for employment in clinical, commercial, corporate and community settings.

Athletic Training Comprehensive

Prepares professionals for employment opportunities such as secondary school athletic trainer; college and university staff assignment; professional sports athletic trainer; sports medicine clinics such as health care professional.

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Recreation and Park Resources

Prepares professionals for employment in federal, state, local, social-serving, and commercial organizations that include the planning and management of natural resources for recreational use, outdoor education and environmental centers, and the delivery of recreation programs and services.

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Sports Management and Marketing

Prepares students for careers in professional, collegiate or amateur athletics; collegiate or military recreational sports; municipal parks and recreation departments; business and industrial sports; commercial and club sports; YMCAs and YWCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs of America; television, radio, journalism, sporting goods and equipment and apparel.
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