运动科学理学学士

南达科他州立大学运动科学计划旨在使健康和健身专业人士具备对各种健康和健身职业中所应用的背后科学概念的深刻理解。南达科他州立大学运动科学计划的任务是为认知（知识），心理运动（技能）和情感（能力）学习领域的合格入门级运动科学专业人员做好准备，这将帮助其他人采用和倡导健康，积极的生活方式。<br> <br>运动科学专业的毕业生将能够提高对健康和体育锻炼的认识，改变行为，并创造支持良好健康习惯的环境，包括但不限于运动和体育锻炼。运动科学专业人员可帮助人们发展自己对自己的健康和保健的责任感，并实施可促进健康生活方式
Exercise Science is the study of human movement performed to maintain or improve physical fitness. Exercise Science graduates are well trained to assess, design and implement individual and group exercise and fitness programs for individuals who are healthy and those with controlled disease. They are skilled in evaluating health behaviors and risk factors, conducting fitness assessments, writing appropriate exercise prescriptions and motivating individuals to modify negative health habits and maintain competence as a leader of health and fitness programs in the university, corporate, commercial or community settings in which their clients participate in health promotion and fitness-related activities. Exercise Science students will be prepared to become a certified American College of Sports Medicine Exercise Physiologist (ACSM-EP) during their senior year in the program. Students will also be prepared to become a certified Personal Trainer, Group Exercise Instructor and Strength and Conditioning Specialist.<br><br>Exercise Science students have the opportunity to gain hands on experience by completing an on campus internship and an off-campus field experience. Students have worked selected sites both domestically and internationally in the fields of strength and conditioning, cardiac rehabilitation, worksite wellness, fitness management, community physical activity promotion and biomechanics.