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The Undergraduate Exercise Science Degree Program teaches students evidence-based guidelines
for health risk screening, health and fitness assessment, injury prevention, wellness promotion
and exercise prescription.
Students acquire the knowledge and skills to promote physical activity and exercise
to a variety of populations in a number of settings.
Exercise Science graduates prepare for careers as Exercise Physiologists in community, corporate
and clinical settings.
Many exercise science graduates continue on to purse advance degrees in fields like physical
therapy, occupational therapy and strength and conditioning.
The MS Kinesiology Program offers two tracks.
One is the accredited clinical exercise physiology track, also known as the CEP track.
The other track is the research-directed applied physiology and neuro mechanics track, better
known as the APN track.
The CEP track is accredited through the Commissions of Accreditation for the Exercise Sciences,
which set standards for our curriculum that best prepares the students to take the Registered
Clinical Exercise Physiology Exam.
For the APN track, students work under a Thesis Advisor from one of two laboratories: either
the Biodynamics Laboratory, or the Laboratory Systems Physiology.
Students from the CEP track who have their ARCEP are able to obtain job opportunities
in hospital-based programs, corporate fitness, and academia.
Students from the APN track can also work in academia, or they continue their education
in a Doctorate program.
In the past, we have students from either track who have gained acceptance into medical
schools, or physician-assistance programs.
To meet accreditation requirements, our Athletic Training program is currently transitioning
from a Bachelor's degree to an entry level Master's degree.
We are hoping to admit our first cohort for the summer 2019 semester.
The program will prepare students to become Certified Athletic Trainers.
Athletic Trainers are allied health professionals who assess, treat, manage and rehabilitate
musculoskeletal injury.
They work in secondary schools, universities, professional sports, as well as healthcare
centers and rehabilitative clinics.
Please stay tuned for more information to come on our entry level Masters in the Athletic
Training program.
Our program is a degree completion program that helps practicing respiratory therapists
advance their education.
We are completely a distance education program, and are actually the largest distance education
program at the university.
This program is a two plus two program, meaning that students are admitted to the university
with an Associate's degree and complete the last two years of their Bachelor degree online
through this program.
The overall goal of the UNC Charlotte BSRT program is to provide graduates a first professional
degree program with additional knowledge, skills and attributes necessary to meet their
current professional goals and also prepare them for future professional practice expectations
for respiratory therapists.
The UNC Charlotte Masters of Science and Respiratory Care program is designed to meet a variety
of needs in the respiratory care profession.
The goal of the program is to prepare scholarly practitioners to take leading roles in research,
administration, education and clinical practice.
Advancing the respiratory care profession begins with higher levels of education and
taking that knowledge and those skills, and applying them to professional practice.
Our program prepares you to achieve those goals.
Hi.
My name is Dave Sperry.
I'm the Director of the Venture program here at UNC Charlotte.
We use adventure experiences like rock climbing, backpacking, and whitewater to teach character
formation and leadership development.
We support the mission of the Kinesiology Department in two important ways: One is that
we're teaching out of the classroom skills like leadership, but we also are supplementing
students' kinesiology background because adventure sports has become an extremely important part
of people's daily physical fitness pursuits.