Discover our Bachelor of 运动科学
Pursue what moves you.
As an exercise science major at Mount Mercy, 你将获得课堂知识和实践经验. 我们的运动科学学位提供了几个独特的特点:
- Mount Mercy’s state-of-the-art Robert W. 石膏运动综合大楼提供了一个创新的空间，让你练习你的学习.
- 你可以选择支持你的兴趣和理想的职业道路的选修课.
- 经验是关键. In your final year of study, you’ll complete 实习 to increase practical understanding of course knowledge and help gain insight into your future exercise science 护理er.
- 研究社会, 经济, and cultural inequalities in the exercise, physical activity, 健康, 和体育 contexts and engage in discussions about how to make these spaces more inclusive for all people.
带着你的运动科学学位毕业，准备在你选择的道路上取得成功.
What is exercise science?
运动科学是一个跨越生理学的跨学科领域, 心理, 营养, 电动机, 以及对运动的功能适应和反应, physical activity, 和体育.
Explore each of those topics as an 运动科学 major at Mount Mercy and collaborate closely with professors who are experts in the field.
What can you do with an exercise science degree?
Employment of exercise science professionals is projected to grow 13% from 2020 to 2030 according to the U.S. 远高于所有职业的平均水平.
With Mount Mercy’s exercise science degree, 你可以灵活地追求多种运动科学事业.
对职业前道路(运动训练)感兴趣, 物理治疗, occupational therapy, 和体育s medicine)? You’ll take coursework in chemistry, 物理, 和其他学科来满足这些项目的先决条件.
Interested in an applied path (训练, 个人培训, strength and 调节, and 健康 promotion)? 你将参加支持你的兴趣和目标的选修课.
Our exercise science program prepares students interested in pursuing 护理ers or graduate/professional degrees in:
- Athletic training
- 物理治疗
- Occupational therapy
- 运动医学
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- 营养学
- 个人培训
- 健康促进
- 强度 & 调节
- 训练
- 体育运动 & performance psychology
Why an 运动科学 degree from Mount Mercy?
Mount Mercy的运动科学专业与课堂学习相结合, beyond-the-classroom work, 和现实生活的经验，让你准备好理解术语, 概念, 以及在运动科学事业中取得成功的必要理论. 学会精确定位, 合成, and critique scientific literature and identify appropriate evidence-based practices in exercise science.
Having a curriculum specifically geared toward pre-professional and entry-level 健康护理 positions will better prepare our next generation of therapists, 培训师, and exercise professionals.
在我们的运动科学学士课程中你能做什么?
作为一名运动科学专业的学生，有很多方法可以参与进来:
- Participate in athletic events
- 与教师一起进行本科生研究
- Join a student club
- Access a guaranteed exercise science internship
Potential internship sites include:
- Mercy Medical Center
- UnityPoint Health—St. 卢克的医院
- Kepros Physical Therapy & 表演
- M.A.C.
- 基督教青年会
- Mount Mercy University Athletic Training
你将在我们的运动科学学士课程中学到什么?
Take courses in everything from Exercise Physiology and 人类营养 to Motor Learning and Control and Principles of 强度 and Conditioning.
Pursue your 运动科学 degree and put your knowledge to work through a guaranteed internship during your final year.
Master of Athletic Training
Mount Mercy exercise science students can go on to earn their Master of Athletic Training in as little as two years, thanks to a partnership with Drake University
With four years to complete the exercise science program and the advantage of a fast-track 应用程序 and acceptance into Drake University's Master of Athletic Training program, you can get a head start on your future.
Students now have the option of finishing their exercise science degree at Mount Mercy and then getting their master's at Drake for a 4 + 2 program, 或者在3年内完成德雷克大学3 + 2课程的所有先决条件.
Here's how it works:
- 提交 your fast-tracked 应用程序 by February 1 of your senior year. 申请和接收是以滚动方式完成的, and a new 应用程序 cycle opens each year in July. 最少3个.0 GPA is required.
- 在你申请的那一年完成必修课程.
- Get your master's in just two years!
What are the next steps?
Mount Mercy offers competitive 学费 和慷慨 奖学金.
我们也鼓励所有学生申请联邦，州和其他类型的 financial assistance.
了解更多关于:
- Federal and state grants and loans
- MMU-offered 奖学金
- 学费 reimbursement from employers
- 10% 学费 discount for employees of partner organizations
- 退伍军人 benefits such as the Yellow Ribbon program and G.I. 比尔®