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Curriculum

CURRICULUM

The curriculum of the Alma College Athletic Training Education Program involves a didactic and clinical component. The plan is a minimum of six semesters and two spring terms of academic work along with clinical experiences under the supervision of approved clinical instructors. This design is to develop the athletic training student’s skills and knowledge with a “learning over time” model. The athletic training major consists of fifty -eight credits in the Exercise and Health Science Department. In addition the student must meet the general education requirements and electives to meet the 136 total need for graduation. Tuition allows a student to take between 13-18 credits with the average number of credits to graduate is sixteen. During the four-week spring term the student takes one four-credit course and they may decide which year to take the term. The required coursework for the athletic training major is listed below:

Courses Required Outside the Athletic Training Major

PSY 121 Introduction to Psychology
BIO 121 Principles of Biology
MTH 116 Statistics

Required Courses in the Athletic Training Majors (58 credits)

EHS 221 First Aid and CPR (2-cr)
EHS 222 Principles of Athletic Training (4-cr)
EHS 225 Human Physiology I (4-cr)
EHS 226 Human Physiology II (4-cr)
EHS 301 Nutrition (4-cr)
EHS 323 Therapeutic Modalities (3-cr)
EHS 324 Therapeutic Exercise (3-cr)
EHS 325 Orthopedic Assessment I (3-cr)
EHS 326 Orthopedic Assessment II (3-cr)

EHS 327 Exercise Physiology (4-cr)
EHS 328 Human Diseases (4-cr)
EHS 340 Pharmacology (4-cr)
EHS 344 Human Anatomy (4-cr)
EHS 345 Biomechanics I (2-cr)
EHS 427 Administration in AT (2-cr)
EHS 105, 106, 205, 206, 305, 306, 405, 406, Clinical Experiences in Athletic Training (1-cr each)
 

Other Elective Exercise and Health Science Courses

EHS 212 Physiology of Aging (4-cr)
EHS 223 Women’s Health Seminar (2-cr)
EHS 270 Community Health (2-cr)
EHS 271 Personal and School Health (2-cr)
EHS 303 Stress Management (2-cr)
EHS 310 Intro to Exercise Science Research (2-4-cr)
EHS 331 Health Promotion (4-cr)
EHS 334 Theory and Practice of Individual Sport (4-cr)

EHS 339 Exercise and Health in the Elementary School (4-cr)
EHS 346 Biomechanics II (2-cr)
EHS 350 Prin. of Coaching for Teachers (2cr)
EHS 401 Molecular Aspects of Muscle Physiology (4-cr)
EHS 428 Exercise Testing and Prescription
EHS 430 Epidemiology

 

More than a third of all Alma students take part in at least one performance each year. The College offers majors in theatre, dance and music, but students of all majors may join in productions. The Remick Heritage Center for the Performing Arts is the region’s premiere performing arts facility.

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Student Profile

Brandon Smith
Graduation: 2008
Major: Exercise and Health Science
Minor: Chemistry

Brandon Smith hopes his interest in the human body combined with his major in exercise and health science will earn him a spot in medical school in the fall of 2008.

“The Exercise and Health Science Department at Alma has classes that focus on function in physiology, structure in anatomy and even pathology in human diseases,” the Harrisville senior says. “I hope that I will discover an area of medicine that will call me in the way that the EHS program here did.”

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