Health and Movement

Academics at Hanover:

Human fitness is a personally rewarding and increasingly important field of study in today’s world. Health and Movement Studies takes a practical, hands-on approach. Combining courses in exercise science, psychology, and health and fitness, this major will help you arrive at a complete, real-world understanding of your field.

You’ll develop a broad-based understanding of the human body and explore how you can use that knowledge to help others achieve higher levels of fitness. You’ll also learn how to analyze a person’s fitness level and teach or correct a movement. By investigating the psychology of motivation, you’ll be able to inspire people to reach their goals.

HANDS-ON TRAINING

Get valuable, hands-on experience working as a personal trainer in the campus-wide Wellness Program. Under the guidance of an American College of Sports Medicine health and fitness professional, you’ll work one-on-one with participants to set and meet their fitness goals over time.
Go to work in the outstanding Horner Health and Recreation Center. This state-of-the-art facility includes a 6,000-square-foot weight room, running track, training rooms and even an underwater weighing tank, the most accurate way to measure body fat.

CAREER PATHS

Students in Health and Movement Studies have several options:

Teach physical education
Become a personal trainer
Enter the business of fitness or athletics

Unlike the Exercise Science major, you can use this major to earn state certification for teaching health and physical education. If you wish to pursue a career in business, you can incorporate courses from the Business Scholars Program.

AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

Personal training
Education
Business management

Courses

Number

Name

Units

Description

HF 101 Lifetime Health and Fitness .50 Examines patterns of exercise, fitness attitudes, nutrition, and other issues of health, with special focus on analyzing one’s own person health patterns, designing a health and fitness plan, and evaluating health-related information. 0.50 unit.

HF 105 Essential Mvmnt for Elem. Children .50 The rationale and methodology for guiding children in motor skills and activities, including creative movement. Includes designing a program for elementary school children as well as experience in a public school. Counts as 0.25 credit toward the AF CCR requirement.

HMS 231 Personal and Community Health 1.00 Emphasizes both the personal and community commitment toward the maintenance of health and the prevention of illness. Focus is on the development of personal lifestyles of optimal wellness over the life span. Health issues include nutrition, physical fitness, drugs, sexuality, infectious and non-infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular health, psychological health, consumerism, safety, environmental health, and death and dying.

HMS 324 Motor Learning and Development 1.00 An examination of how differing motor skills affect how an individual learns motor skills. A framework will be provided for establishing programs that help learners of all ages develop motor skills.

HMS 325 Care & Prevention - Athletic Injury 1.00 An exploration of various sports and activity related injuries. Specifically, the prevention, recognition, immediate care, and general rehabilitation of the most common and most severe sports and activity related injuries. The course will cover diagnosis of injuries, preventative taping and bracing techniques, common treatment methods, and a general conceptive understanding of general rehabilitation techniques. Prerequisite: KIP 215. Lab fee.

HMS 461 Senior Seminar 1.00 A culminating experince emphasizing the historical, philosophical, sociological and psychological factors associated with physical activities, health and physical education.