This course involves the application and synthesis of the best evidence-based practices in sport psychology that have been shown to result in optimal performance, health, and satisfaction. Students will be introduced to the most effective science based theories, research, and best practices in sport psychology. The course experience will focus on the necessary link between science and sport, encouraging each student to build the bridge from concept to integrated application in real world settings.
- Instructor: Jaime Sawchuk
This course prepares the student to handle emergency situations that arise with athletes during exercise or sporting events, such as cessation of breathing or circulation, shock, concussion, and spinal injuries. Students will learn to assess critical injuries and illnesses, follow procedures for providing care, and implement guidelines that affect decisions for allowing athletes to continue with activity.
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
This course focuses on the evaluation and management, including acute care, rehabilitation, and prevention, of injuries and disorders of the pelvis, hip, thigh, knee, calf, ankle and foot.
- Instructor: Craig Kawaoka
- Instructor: Tim Timothy Ray
This course focuses on the dietary needs for physical activity and peak performance with a focus on nutritional assessment, metabolism, and use of supplements and botanicals in the management of sports injuries. In addition, intentional and non-intentional abuses of supplements and related compounds, and food/supplement interaction with regard to drug tests commonly mandated in the athletic competitions are discussed.
- Instructor: Robert Davidson
This is a series of four field-based practicums in which students participate in the evaluation and management of athletes. The required practicum hours are achieved through a variety of clinical experiences in physician offices, rehabilitation clinics, and sports performance laboratories as well as through participation in sporting events.
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
This course focuses on mechanisms to improve athletic performance in the areas of muscular strength, flexibility, and aerobic capacity for the individual athlete and team. The assessment of performance in each of these areas and the creation, implementation and monitoring of training plans to achieve performance-based goals will be emphasized throughout this course. Current peer-reviewed research and scientific/professional expert reports will be strongly utilized.
- Instructor: Christopher Connolly
This is a series of four field-based practicums in which students participate in the evaluation and management of athletes. The required practicum hours are achieved through a variety of clinical experiences in physician offices, rehabilitation clinics, and sports performance laboratories as well as through participation in sporting events.
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
- Instructor: Jun Kawaguchi
- Instructor: Brent Marshall
This course requires the student to collaborate with up to two other students in their cohort to produce an original research design suitable for submission to a Human Subjects Review Board (IRB) that demonstrates their mastery of a specified subject that they might endeavor to explore in a scholarly way. Students are not required to actually submit or to complete the research protocol they design, rather this exercise prepare all the necessary information and documentation that would be necessary if they actually intended to do the project. In that context, the project requires the student to select an area of study, review and critique the available literature on the subject and to design, on paper, a scientific investigation that would elucidate some previously unknown facet of the topic area. Optimally, the chosen subject will call upon the student to analyze and reflect on their experiences in the program in a scholarly way, including the student's academic achievement, practical experiences, and personal growth throughout the master's program.
- Instructor: Gary Schultz