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• EXL 482: Strength Training and Conditioning Laboratory

  1.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This laboratory course will apply and reinforce strength and conditioning principles and concepts from EXS 482 and enable students to learn from hands-on experience. This course, along with EXS 482, will serve as a partial preparation for the CSCS exam. Prerequisite:    EXL 482 requires prerequisites of EXS 362, EXL 362, EXS 380, and EXL 380. EXL 482 requires a corequisite of EXS 482.
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• EXL 489: Clinical Exercise Testing and Interpretation Laboratory

  1.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This laboratory course will enable the student to learn from both "hands-on" and computer simulated experiences. In both cases, reinforcing and illuminating concepts and clinical exercise principles introduced in EXS 489 (lecture class). Students will learn how to administer graded exercise tests, take blood pressure and heart rate measurements during exercise, administer and interpret standard resting and exercise 12-lead electrocardiograms at a fundamental level, and how to properly prescribe exercise based on test results and using metabolic calculations. Prerequisite:    EXL 489 requires prerequisites of EXS 381 and EXL 381 and a corequisite of EXS 489.
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• EXS 101: Group Exercise Leadership

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The major goals of this course are to provide students with professional instruction on how to teach a variety of group exercise classes by applied learning techniques, to be able to lead exercise classes for all levels of fitness and for a wide variety of participants, including children, the elderly, and other special populations, and to modify moves to accommodate them. This course is designed to prepare the student to pass a nationally accredited certification exam for group exercise leadership.
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• EXS 102: Fundamentals of Resistance Training Techniques

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Resistance training, also called weight training or strength training, is structured exercise in which muscles of the body are forced to contract under tension using weights, body weight, or other devices in order to stimulate growth, strength, power and endurance. This course provides the beginner student with hands-on experience using these various methods along with instruction on proper exercise technique and safety precautions.
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• EXS 103: Fundamentals of Group Exercise and Resistance Training

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is intended to provide the student with the content knowledge and practical experience concerned with teaching group exercise classes as they develop oral communication skills. Furthermore, this class will provide the student with the skills necessary to properly perform essential exercises and the knowledge to teach others about the proper training techniques and form for the major muscle groups using a variety of exercises, free-weights, and machines.
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• EXS 180: Lifetime Fitness Concepts

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Designed to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of the relationship between lifestyle, physical fitness, and health and well-being.
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• EXS 222: Introduction to Medical Terminology and Drug Classifications

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course offers an introduction to common clinical abbreviations and medical terms through an analysis of their construction including prefix, suffix, root, connecting and combining forms. The student acquires an understanding of medical meanings applicable to structure, function and diseases of the human body. Students will also learn how drugs are classified and for what major conditions they are used and learn how to use the Physicians Desk Reference.
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• EXS 223: Kinetic Anatomy

  2.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The purpose of this course is to lay the foundation for students to learn how anatomy affects movement of the human body. The course will build upon, reinforce, and challenge the student's basic knowledge of structural anatomy with the intention of acquiring a mastery of basic concepts in this discipline. Presentation of concepts will begin with whole body orientation by region, and then work additively and systematically from skeletal anatomy identifications and joint structure / alignment analysis, through muscular and neurovascular investigation to provide a comprehensive study of clinically applied structural anatomy. Prerequisite:    EXS 223 requires a prerequisite of BIO 259.
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• EXS 241: Body Systems and Applied Anatomy I

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This class introduces basic anatomical and physiological concepts critical to understanding human movement, exercise, physical education and how the human body functions. The class examines the anatomy, physiology and exercise physiology of the skeletal and muscular systems. Throughout the course, special attention will be paid to the impact of development (growth and maturation) on the systems covered. Students will be required to apply these anatomical and physiological principles to physical education, exercise and sport.
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• EXS 270: Motor Learning

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the behavioral, physiological, and psychological principles underlying motor control and motor learning. Specific topics include classifications and measurement of motor performance; the role and function of sensory processes, perception, memory, and attention; and the delivery of feedback and structure of practice.
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