Introduction to Kinesiology

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Health care practitioners including exercise scientists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, athletic trainers, nurses and physicians must be able to observe, evaluate, and understand human movement and performance for the populations they serve. This course is designed to provide students with foundational knowledge about how our bodies produce movement. Students will explore the underlying principles of kinematics, kinetics, and biomechanics and how joint structure leads to normal and abnormal function. Students will be introduced to clinical skills such as joint range of motion testing, muscle strength testing, and gait analysis. Upon completion of this course students will be able to select a complex movement and provide a single joint analysis based on the principles of kinematics, and kinetics and their knowledge of anatomy and joint structure.