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KNPE 455 Advanced Physical Activity and Health Units: 3.00
Provides advanced understanding of concepts related to the use of physical activity/lifestyle as a strategy for reducing morbidity and mortality in general and selected special populations in preparation to participate in a variety of multidisciplinary clinical and/or professional health care environments.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 3 or above and registration in a KINE Plan and KNPE 125/3.0 and KNPE 225/3.0 and KNPE 227/3.0 and KNPE 255/3.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Discriminate between different strategies used to discover/search, interpret and present scientific evidence designed to answer a question specific to the application of exercise science/kinesiology in health care/clinical settings.
- Compare and contrast the various applications of physical activity as a treatment strategy for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-based, chronic disease and associated risk factors.
- Describe processes involved in moving knowledge derived from high quality evidence into practice.