Wellness Requirements

Credits Required: 

Total credits: 120-124 Credits in the major: 55-60 (depending on concentration)

You must receive a grade of C or better in all courses taken to satisfy Major Learning Outcomes.

You officially begin the major with KIN 300: Major Pro-Seminar, where you create and/or revise your Individual Learning Plan (ILP) with faculty guidance.

Major Learning Outcomes

MLO 1 Knowledge of Kinesiology

Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental content, principles and issues common in the field of kinesiology, including exercise science, wellness, human development, neurological foundations of learning, movement, nutrition and community health.

Required Courses

  • Complete all of the following
  • KIN 120: CPR/First Aid (1 units)
  • KIN 300: Major Pro-Seminar (3 units)
  • KIN 360: Nutritional Science (3 units)
  • KIN 360L: Nutritional Science Lab (1 units)
  • KIN 370: Anatomy & Physiology I (3 units)
  • KIN 370L: Anatomy & Physiology I Lab (1 units)
  • KIN 371: Anatomy & Physiology II (3 units)
  • KIN 371L: Anatomy & Physiology II Lab (1 units)
  • KIN 420: Essential of Exercise Science (3 units)
  • KIN 497: Senior Capstone I (2 units)
  • KIN 499: Senior Capstone II (2 units)

MLO 2 Research Methods

Demonstrate the ability to use diverse methods of inquiry to analyze a kinesiology related issue. This includes acquiring, evaluating, interpreting, synthesizing, applying, documenting and presenting scientific and social science knowledge.

Required Courses

  • STAT 100: Introduction to Statistics (4 units)

MLO 3 Multicultural Competency

Demonstrate the ability to deliver kinesiology services by communicating effectively across cultural groups, assessing the needs and capabilities of culturally diverse populations, and engaging in this process with mutual respect and sensitivity.

Required Courses

  • KIN 364: Ancestral Well-being & Healing (3 units)
  • OR
  • KIN 368: Holistic Health & Wellness (3 units)

MLO 4 Personal and Professional Ethics and Communication

Demonstrate the ability to articulate the values and ethics that are the foundation for practices in kinesiology in both oral and written contexts; to recognize and differentiate areas of conflict between professional and personal values; and to interact ethically and effectively in interpersonal and group communications and decision-making processes.

Required Courses

  • KIN 345: Sports Ethics (4 units)
  • OR
  • CHHS 350: Ethics for Health & Human Serv (3 units)

MLO 5 Collaboration

Demonstrate the ability to work in teams, in diverse communities, across professions, settings, programs, agencies and disciplines. Demonstrate prowess at establishing common missions and purposes applying knowledge of group processes and group interaction, and collaborating with others in decision making, learning and completing tasks.

Required Courses

  • KIN 365: Models & Dimension of Wellness (4 units)
  • OR
  • KIN 367: Consumer Advocacy & Well-being (3 units)

MLO 6 Leadership

Demonstrate an understanding and resourceful command of the skills needed to motivate others in diverse settings and communities, to include promoting a shared vision and setting clear directions for implementing sustained changes.

Required Courses

MLO 7 Service Learning

Demonstrate the ability to share the relevance and importance of the kinesiology discipline and its services. Work collaboratively with culturally, linguistically, technologically and economically diverse populations in the context of issues related to social responsibility, justice, diversity, pluralism and compassion.

Required Courses

  • KIN 471S: Service Learning: KIN Majors (3 units)

MLO 8 Subject Matter Competency in Concentration

Complete up to 30 credits within one of the four KIN concentrations (Wellness; Exercise Science; Human Movement; Sport; Outdoor Education & Recreation). This coursework is typically completed simultaneously with the Core Curriculum during your junior and senior year. Contact your Kinesiology concentration advisor for specific course information.

Required Courses

  • KIN 363: Human Sexuality (3 units)
  • KIN 363L: Human Sexuality Lab (1 units)
  • KIN 364: Ancestral Well-being & Healing (3 units)
  • KIN 365: Models & Dimension of Wellness (4 units)
  • KIN 367: Consumer Advocacy & Well-being (3 units)
  • KIN 368: Holistic Health & Wellness (3 units)
  • KIN 461: Effectively Manage Stress (3 units)
  • KIN 461L: Effectively Manage Stress Lab (1 units)
  • KIN 464: Pattern & Dynamic in Relations (3 units)
  • KIN 465: Sp Top Intern: Health & Well (4 units)
  • CHHS 360
  • HDEV 351: Lifespan Dev: Transit/Chng (4 units)
  • PSY 310: Biological Psychology (3 units)
  • PSY 329: Health Psychology (3 units)

Concentrations

Exercise Science

Human Movement

Sport

Wellness