Sports Studies and Exercise Science
Minor offered
Sport is deeply embedded in our national consciousness, both reflecting and shaping our daily lives. Since the middle of the 20th century, sport has emerged as a rapidly expanding scholarly endeavor that offers students a logical forum for the study of the traditional liberal arts disciplines and sub-disciplines found in the humanities, natural sciences and pedagogy. Most courses are introductory in nature and therefore do not have prerequisites. Thus, some students will be taking courses framed in a particular liberal arts perspective for the first time while others enter with experience. For students without prior experience in the theories, conventions and methodologies of the traditional discipline, courses are successful if they develop a solid understanding of the relationships between the disciplinary perspective and sport and physical activity. For students with disciplinary experience, courses are successful if they exit with an understanding that the study of sport and physical activity is another relevant dimension that can deepen their ability to analyze the constructs associated with the discipline.
Requirements for Minors
Students who are interested in the sports studies and exercise science minor must complete a five-course sequence. Students will be advised by the department’s director of instructional programs.
Courses
107. Functional Anatomy
115. Introduction
to Kinesiology.
212. Sociological
Perspectives on Sport.
216. Philosophical
Perspectives on Sport.
234.
Human Exercise Physiology
248.
Principles of Fitness and Wellness
306. Human
Growth and Motor Development.
319. Sport
Medicine.
320. Coaching
Theory.
390.
Independent Study
391. Internship.
415. SYE: Senior
Seminar.
490. SYE: Independent Study
The following courses may also receive credit toward the minor:
Biology
240. Human Anatomy.
Psychology
255. Sport Psychology.
Coaching Certification
Students completing the following courses in -sequence will earn a certificate to coach in the public schools of New York State. Students pursuing teacher certification in other disciplines are strongly encouraged to explore this option. The required three-course sequence includes
115. Introduction
to Kinesiology.
or
216. Philosophical
Perspectives on Sport.
319. Sport
Medicine.
320. Coaching
Theory.
Associate Professor
Margaret Fisher Strait (Chair), B.S., SUNY Cortland; M.Ed., St. Lawrence
Associate Professor of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreation and
Chair of Department; Director of Athletics
