Wayne State University

Aim Higher

Exercise and Sport Science

Degree Requirements

Exercise and Sport Science (Kinesiology M.Ed.)

This specialization is designed to help prepare students for careers in areas such as exercise physiology, cardiac rehabilitation, sport psychology, and motor control/development/learning, and measurement and evaluation.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS: Thirty credits are required. Students selecting this program will concentrate in the following areas: biomechanics, exercise physiology,  motor control/development/learning, or exercise and sport psychology.

REQUIRED COURSES:

  • EER 7630 -- Fundamentals of Statistics: Cr. 3
  • KHS 5523 -- Exercise Psychology: Cr. 3
  • KIN 6310 -- Physiology of Exercise II: Cr. 3
  • KIN 7580 -- Biomechanical Analysis of Motor Activity: Cr. 3
  • KIN 8530 -- Motor Learning: Cr. 3

CULMINATING EXPERIENCE: (one of the following)

KHS 7999/8999/8750 -- Master's Essay and Project, or Thesis or Graduate Internship: Cr. 3-8

ELECTIVE COURSES: as approved by adviser, to complete the thirty credits required for graduation. 

GRADUATION:

Applications for graduate degrees must be made not later than the fourth week of classes for the semester in which degree or certificate requirements are to be completed. Graduation deadline dates for the semester in which candidates are completing doctoral degree requirements are issued on receipt of the application by the Graduate Education Office.

Information concerning commencement announcements, caps and gowns, invitations, tickets, time and place, and other relevant items will be mailed to graduates prior to the event.