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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
A scientific program that focuses on the anatomy,
physiology, biochemistry, and biophysics of human movement, and application to exercise
and therapeutic rehabilitation. Inclides instructions in biomechanics, motor behavior,
motor development and coordination, motor neurophysiology, performance research,
rehabilitative therapies, the development of diagnosic and rehabilitative methods and
equipment, and related analytical methods and procedures in applied exercise and
therapeutic rehabilitation.
The mission of the Exercise Science program at Marshall University is to study
and understand the relationship between physical activity and human health. Exercise
Science coursework and research emphasize an understanding of the effects of acute and chronic
exercise on the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms that underlie the responses
and adaptations to exercise. The Exercise Science curriculum is a commitment to physical fitness,
health promotion and desease prevention. The Marshall University Exercise Science faculty is
committed to furthering the discipline and student comprehension by utilizing state-of-the-art
facilities to conduct college-wide, regional, national, and internationally visible research,
while maintaining important affiliations with many scientific and professional organizations.
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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