2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Sep 27, 2024  
2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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EXS 471 - Internship in Fitness Development

A full-time supervised internship in a fitness field that relates to the student's area of interest. Typical internships may include strength and conditioning, personal training or work in a fitness facility. Prerequisites: EXS 371, 435, 438, and 470. (9-15 cr. hr.)
Frequency code A = offered every semester

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Identify the roles and responsibilities of the personnel within a fitness/clinical/sport organization including the basic functions of planning, organizing, controlling, staffing and leading.
  2. Apply the concepts, theories and tools of exercise prescription learned in the classroom to a specific fitness/clinical/sport organization.
  3. Conduct appropriate fitness/clinical/sport assessments associated with the goals of the clients and guidelines of the internship site.
  4. Identify how a fitness/clinical/sport organization might deal with socio-economic, gender, ethnicity, race, and disability as factors within an operating environment.
  5. Assess professional strengths and areas of improvement and develop personal objectives for a career in kinesiology.



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