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EXERCISE SCIENCE
Exercise Science prepares professionals to promote and manage positive, healthful Iifestyles in others. It provides trained personnel who conduct adult physical fitness testing, are knowledgeable about cardiac rehabilitation principles and procedures, and develop personal fitness training programs that involve exercise and physical activity. These individuals work in corporate, industrial, recreational, educational, and medical settings. This concentration is interdisciplinary and includes courses from the sport sciences, business administration, psychology, chemistry, communication, and other related areas.

View EES Checksheet- This sheet is the road map for all exercise science students, detailing all the course requirements in the four years at UD.  (to view, you must have Adobe Acrobat Installed in your computer)

View EES Program Handbook -  This handbook, which contains the EES Checksheet above, provides more details of the exercise science major, student life in the Health and Sport Science Department, and general education requirements at UD.  (to view, you must have Adobe Acrobat Installed in your computer)

Exercise Science graduates have secured positions as strength coaches (Div I or professional sports), corporate fitness managers/directors, fitness equipment sales and management, and wellness coordinators.  Others have pursued graduates degrees, MS and PhD at schools such as:

University of Virginia
University of Southern California
University of Tennessee
The Ohio State University
Colorado State University
University of Oregon
University of South Carolina
University of Georgia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Exercise Science advisors are Dr. Lloyd Laubach and Dr. Jon Linderman.