Degree programs in kinesiology
B.S. in kinesiology / honors option
M.Ed./professional studies in applied kinesiology
Freestanding minor in human factors/ergonomics
Certificate/licensure programs
Initial licensure in physical education
Licensure/Additional licensure in developmental and adapted physical education
Research
Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL)
Human Performace Teaching Laboratory
Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory
Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology
Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene and Exercise Science
Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
Students take measurements during a
treadmill test at the Human Performance
Teaching Laboratory.
Human Performance Teaching Laboratory gives undergraduates hands-on experience
The School of Kinesiology opened the Human Performance Teaching Laboratory in fall of 2008 to provide undergraduate students with hands-on experience measuring and assessing human motion and exercise. The Human Performance Teaching Laboratory is located in 141 Mariucci Arena. Supported in part by a grant from the College of Education and Human Development and funds from student technology fees, the new lab enhances the learning experience for undergraduate students in biomechanics, exercise physiology, and motor control and learning.
Kinesiology faculty Don Dengel, Jürgen Konczak, and Tom Stoffregen, who bring expertise from each of the three emphasis areas, run the lab collaboratively. The testing equipment consists of metabolic carts, cycle ergometers and eight computerized workstations for measuring physiological parameters of human performance. For example, students learn the relationship between muscle force and the recruitment of muscles fibers by measuring the strength of their grip while recording the electromyographic activity of their own muscles.
"This is not a research lab," says Konczak. "It's a teaching facility that gives undergraduate students the chance to use what they're learning during lecture. Our vision is to have teaching facilities for both undergraduate and graduate students that will expose them to how the human performance and human motion can be measured."