Specific requirements for the doctoral degree program is outlined below. All organized graduate courses (i.e., not including Directed Research) taken in Exercise Physiology must be taken for a letter grade. Courses taken outside of Exercise Physiology may be taken on a credit/no credit basis (with advisor’s approval), as allowed by the Graduate School (i.e., no more than 6 credit hours, or 20% of the total hours on the Program of Work).
Ph.D. Required Coursework
- Coursework in Exercise Physiology (minimum 18 hrs)
- KIN 382 Advanced Lab Techniques in Exercise Physiology
- KIN 395 Cardiovascular Responses and Adaptations to Exercise
- KIN 395 Human Cardiovascular and Autonomic Physiology
- KIN 395 Pulmonary Exercise Physiology
- KIN 395 Sports Nutrition
- KIN 395 Endocrine Physiology
- Directed/independent study and doctoral seminar (minimum 6 hrs)
- 2 consecutive fall semesters of KIN 196 doctoral seminars (total of 2 hrs) are required.
- Statistics and grant writing (minimum 9 hrs)
- KIN 386 Research Methods: Grant Writing (offered every other year)
- At least two advisor-approved graduate statistics or research methods courses (see flowchart)
- Supporting coursework outside Department (minimum 6 hrs)
- At least two advisor-approved courses (see below for a list of suggested courses)
- Dissertation (minimum 18 hrs)
- KIN 999R/999W Dissertation
Department Courses
Organized Courses in Exercise Physiology
- KIN 395 Aging and Cardiovascular/Disease Risks
- KIN 395 Conditioning for Competitive Athletics
- KIN 395 Environmental Physiology
- KIN 395 Ergogenic aids for exercise
- KIN 395 Exercise and Preventive Medicine
- KIN 395 Exercise as Medicine
- KIN 395 Human Anatomy Dissection
- KIN 395 Human Cardiovascular and Autonomic Physiology
- KIN 395 Pulmonary Exercise Physiology
Sample Graduate Statistics Courses
- EDP 380E Fundamental Statistics
- EDP 380P Measurement and Evaluation
- EDP 482K Experimental Design and Statistical Inference
- EDP 382K Correlation and Regression
- EDP 382K Survey of Multivariate Methods
- SSC 382 Introduction to Probability and Statistics
- SSC 385 Topics in Applied Statistics: Experimental Design
- SSC 385 Topics in Applied Statistics: Applied Regression
- SSC 385 Topics in Applied Statistics: Applied Multivariate Methods
Research Methods Course Options
- KIN 386 Research Methods: Proposal Writing
- KIN 386 Research Methods: Grant Writing
Laboratory Techniques Course
- KIN 382 Advanced Laboratory Techniques in Exercise Physiology
Sample Non-department Courses (Electives)
Exercise Physiology students have taken a variety of non-departmental courses to complement their degree plans and programs of study.
- ANT 391L Analysis of Primate Anatomy
- ANT 392L Physical Anthropology: Morphology/Evolution
- BCH 395J Genes/Genomes/Gene Expression
- BIO 365S Human Systems Physiology
- BIO 382K Informatics/Data Analyses Life Science
- BIO 384K Human Variation
- BME 385J Adv Oral Comm Intl Eng Stud
- BME 385J Adv Written Comm Intl Eng Stud
- N 382 Sociocultural Influences on Health
- N 396C Advanced Pathophysiology
- NEU 185D Responsible Conduct of Science
- NEU 383C Functional Neuroanatomy
- NEU 383T Principles of Neuroscience II
- NEU 385L Neurobiology of Disease
- NEU 394P Career Dev for Neuroscientists
- NEU 394P Grant Writing Behavioral Biological Science
- NEU 394P Sensory Motor Systems
- NEU 482T Principles of Neuroscience I
- NTR 390 Molecular Nutritional Science
- NTR 390 Principles of Epidemiology in Nutritional Science
- PGS 384S Introduction to Epidemiology
- PGS 384T Advanced Epidemiology
- PGS 386C Cellular/Systems Physiology I
- PGS 386D Cellular/System Physiology II
- PGS 388C Intro Bioorganic Chemistry
- PSY 184R Data Analysis with R
- PSY387S Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience
- SOC 389K Human Mortality
- SOC 395J Gender, Health, and Society
- SOC 395L Race and the Body