Grad Requirements
All students in the school of public health are required to take this class.
What is SPHL100?
If you are looking to deal with prosthetic limbs in the future, this class would be most beneficial to you.
What is Biomechanics? (KNES 300)
If you are interested in the mental side of sports, this class would be especially interesting to you.
What is The Psychology of Sports & Exercise? (KNES350)
An interdisciplinary study of the body and how it relates to health, society, and motion of the human body.
What is Kinesiology?
This core class deals with the growth and development of bones and the neuromuscular system all throughout a human's lifespan.
What is Motor Development? (KNES370)
This is how many credits are required to graduate from UMD.
What is a Minimum of 120?
To pursue a career as a physical or occupational therapist, you would need this.
What is a Doctorate Degree?
If you are interested about how sport and the physical culture intertwines with economy, politics, and technology, you should take this course.
Sport and American Society? (KNES 287)
This core course relates to how sport and exercise relate to and influence societal issues focusing on discrepancies between race, class, and gender.
What is Sport and American Society? (KNES287)
This class is about how humans voluntarily create movement and learn these new skills, whether it be a professional athlete or any day to day activities.
What is Motor Control and Learning? (KNES385)
These are the math classes required for KNES majors.
What is...
1 Math113 or higher
1 analytical reasoning(STAT100 or higher)
This is one of the most popular career paths with a kinesiology degree.
What is Physical Therapy?
You are required to take 4 of these 1 credit classes.
What are physical activites?
This course focuses on how sport has helped to shape American culture and explores the cultural, social, political, and economic factors contributing to physical culture in America.
What is History of Physical Culture, Sport, & Science in America?(KNES285)
This class studies how our body is capable of exercise and how we respond to it, along with learning about energy transformation, metabolism, and nutrition.
What is Exercise Physiology? (KNES 360)
This is required to be taken in the last year as a KNES student.
What is KNES497? (Senior Seminar)
Many career paths in Kinesiology require a more hands-on way of learning, and sometimes can be done for pay.
What is an Internship?
This class is considered the Intro to Kinesiology.
What is KNES200?
This course explores the tools, research, and strategies involved in preventing, controlling, and solving widespread health issues.
What is Foundations of Public Health? (SPHL100)
This class focuses on how human emotion, motivation, and personality all affect sport and general motor skill performance.
What is Psychology of Sport and Exercise? (KNES 350)
The number of elective credits required to graduate.
What is 32?
Future personal trainers should focus most on this course.
What is Motor Control and Learning? (KNES385)
If you are interested in the ins and outs of the muscular and skeletal system, you should take this class.
What is Exercise Physiology? (KNES 360)
This class studies how different body parts, like bones, ligaments, etc., function together to create movement
What is Biomechanics? (KNES300)
There are this many core courses in kinesiology.
What is 7?