Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize, define, and apply key concepts in public and population health.
2. Critically analyze the social determinants of health in Canadian and global contexts.
3. Identify policies and other interventions addressing the social determinants of health.
4. Apply course concepts in the analysis of current health issues.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and explain terminology, concepts, and assumptions related to personal health and well-being.
2. Evaluate and critically appraise information and resources relevant to personal health.
3. Apply course content to one's own personal health practices.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain how exercise and physical activity impacts health.
2. Identify the components of physical fitness and describe the physiological responses to exercise.
3. Explain how movement behaviours and components of physical fitness can be assessed to inform exercise planning.
4. Apply the basic principles of training to design safe and effective personal exercise programs.
5. Create strategies to implement and adapt exercise plans to meet individual movement behaviour goals.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the practice of health promotion and its relationship to the individual and social determinants of health.
2. Assess the principles of program planning and evaluation in designing and implementing health promotion interventions.
3. Identify the importance of practices that promote cultural safety and health equity.
4. Compare approaches to health promotion for a variety of public health issues.
5. Apply improved information literacy and writing skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how food is digested and absorbed into the body.
2. Identify the roles of nutrients and non-nutrients in the body.
3. Plan meals for personal consumption demonstrating the importance of dietary guidelines, Dietary Reference Intakes, and nutrition labeling.
4. Assess a diet and recommend appropriate adaptations.
5. Investigate inter-relationships between food consumption, body weight change, anatomical function, and general health within typical contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the main features of the dominant industrial food system, traditional Indigenous food systems, and alternative food systems including agroecology.
2. Identify and describe contemporary debates related to food systems.
3. Appreciate the social, cultural, spiritual, symbolic, political, and ethical dimensions of food and eating.
4. Recognize food consumption, production, and distribution as sites of injustice and oppression, as well as resistance, change, and hope.
5. Use sociological concepts and theories to connect the everyday, personal act of eating to larger social and political structures, including race, class, gender, culture, capitalism, and globalization.
6. Apply university-level critical thinking and writing skills to analyze food systems.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the major types of psychoactive drugs.
2. Contrast biological, psychological, and social theories of drug use and addiction.
3. Compare and critique enforcement, prevention, treatment, and harm reduction as responses to drug use and addiction.
4. Model empathy and cultural competence for engaging with people who use drugs and people with drug use disorder.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate research articles from the different types of research occurring within the SKHS and the research methods associated with each.
2. Describe the founding principles and development of quantitative and qualitative research traditions to inform an appreciation of the multiple ways of researching health.
3. Describe the philosophical and practical limitations associated with “knowing” in quantitative and qualitative research to develop a healthy skepticism of the research process and research methodologies/tools.
4. Recognize different components of a problem statement and identify linkages between problem statements and study objectives, hypotheses and study design, and assess the importance of the problem statement within the quantitative and qualitative research processes.
5. Recognize the structure of a research paper introduction, develop an outline for an introduction starting from a problem statement, and practice writing an introduction concisely and effectively.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe movement behaviour principles and concepts to appreciate the movement behaviour field.
2. Review movement behaviour levels in the population to determine what movement behaviours are problematic in the population and population subgroups who are at high risk.
3. Identify health benefits of movement to describe the role that movement behaviours have on health and well-being.
4. Identify the determinants of movement behaviours to discuss the complexity of these behaviours.
5. Generate a movement behaviour intervention plan to demonstrate ability to develop new ideas by integrating knowledge and understanding of movement behaviour principles, determinants, and intervention strategies.
6. Practice effective written communication techniques to show your ability to enhance others understanding of a topic area.
7. Act in a manner consistent with academic integrity and professional practice to display scholastic and professional competence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply professional development resources to prepare and utilize a professional cover letter and resume, as well as, employ effective interview and networking skills to secure a placement opportunity.
2. Practice professional skills such as: leadership, adaptability, written and oral communication, inquiry and analysis, self-management, time management, collaboration and critical thinking through seminar and placement experience.
3. Employ knowledge gained through theory-based courses in an intensive practicum experience (relevant to the field of study), to then critically reflect on connections and/or gaps between course content, scientific literature and observations of professional practice.
4. Describe current advances, practices, organizational culture and professional etiquette used in field-related workplaces (e.g., local business, public sector, health care, and community-based settings).
5. Evaluate and critique personal performance throughout practicum experience based on individualized placement learning objectives.
6. Identify career options in the field of study, through seminar discussions around students’ practicum experiences.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss theories and processes of policy and policy change.
2. Explain ideological influences on health policy.
3. Describe the history and current structure of the Canadian health care system.
4. Contrast the Canadian health care system with health care systems in other countries.
5. Analyze current debates about reforms to the Canadian health care system.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify various theories used to promote healthy lifestyles among individuals.
2. Recognize the process of evidence-based, health promotion practice.
3. Link behaviour change techniques with behaviour change theories.
4. Integrate behaviour change techniques and behaviour change theories into evidence-based health promotion practice.
5. Analyze the effectiveness of health behaviour change theories used in various lifestyle interventions.
6. Critically evaluate scientific literature relevant to health behaviour change in order to integrate evidence into health behaviour change practice.
7. Critically evaluate scientific literature relevant to equity deserving groups in order to adapt health behaviour change interventions to reflect responsible conduct of professional practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the principles and history of epidemiology research to appraise the field of epidemiology.
2. Quantify rates and measures used in epidemiology and public health to assess their meaning and practice standard calculations.
3. Assess different study designs used in epidemiology research and critique scientific articles to determine strengths and weaknesses of existing studies, identify gaps in the literature and reiterate important study findings.
4. Recognize applications of epidemiology research to describe how epidemiology research is used to influence health policy and practice.
5. Practice effective communication techniques to show your ability to enhance others understanding of a topic area.
6. Act in a manner consistent with academic integrity and professional practice to display scholastic and professional competence.
7. Generate novel research questions and develop a research plan in the field of epidemiology to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of literature, epidemiological principles, epidemiology research methods, written communication skills, and ability to work in a team environment.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the basic scientific principles underpinning human nutrition.
2. Critically analyze an individual’s diet and identify components that are both deficient and surplus.
3. Describe how to enhance health and well-being with nutritional interventions.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss disability terminology and models.
2. Explain how health conditions interact with personal and environmental factors to influence participation and quality of life among persons with disability.
3. Recognize, critically appraise, and propose feasible solutions that minimize or remove barriers to accessibility and inclusion in society.
4. Communicate appropriately and respectfully using inclusive language in order to advocate responsibly and professionally for an accessible and inclusive society.
5. Reflect on and evaluate the consequences of their own personal attitudes towards disability.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and contextualize issues related to sexuality and cultures of sexuality.
2. Discuss sexuality as a social construct.
3. Explain the relationship between private life and social structures.
4. Practice thinking historically and sociologically about important social issues.
5. Appraise processes of social change.
6. Practice the art of the good question.
7. Apply critical reading skills.
8. Practice writing as a tool of critical thinking.
9. Identify, reflect upon, and assess our own perspectives and opinions.
10. Identify and apply social justice frameworks.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Deploy critical concepts and theories to analyze health and illness as collective, social phenomena.
2. Identify how systemic forces create and reproduce disparate health experiences and outcomes.
3. Evaluate explanations for how health and illness are produced, distributed, and lived.
4. Recognize health and illness as sites for the production of cultural meaning.
5. Engage politically with health, illness, and the world at large.
6. Develop the necessary reading, writing, and presentation skills to produce informed and insightful work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically discuss the issues and challenges associated with a range of global health topics.
2. Critically discuss the complexity of decision-making in global public health at various levels.
3. Assess current systems and mechanisms for global health governance.
4. Explain the basis for between- and within country inequalities in health.
5. Examine theoretical models and moral frameworks within the context of global health promotion.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe principles, rights and duties for governing humanitarian aid in crisis settings through class discussion and written work.
2. Assess health and humanitarian responses and the coordination between host governments, the UN, and humanitarian agencies.
3. Analyze the risk factors to the physical, mental, and social health in refugee camps and host communities.
4. Examine objectives, priorities, and minimum standards in human health response during emergency and post-emergency phases of crises.
5. Apply principles of academic research, writing and academic integrity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss multidisciplinary research methodologies used in SKHS research labs/programs.
2. Practice various aspects of the research process including data collection/analysis, literature searches, manuscript writing, presentation skills, etc. through a research development practicum in an SKHS research lab/program.
3. Apply effective written and oral/visual communication skills.
4. Model ethical behaviour consistent with the responsible conduct of research and professional practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical understanding of how conditions of power shape Black Health.
2. Explain global Black health inequities and their social and commercial determinants.
3. Identify the importance of practices that promote cultural safety and Black health equity.
4. Identify opportunities to operationalize strategies to promote global Black Health.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply critical thinking and interpretation to various topics that are current and/or of special interest in Health Studies.
2. Analyze the relationship between the special topic and its relationship to the social determinants of health and health equity.
3. Practice effective communication skills (written, oral and/or visual).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine theory and global perspectives of interprofessional education and collaborative practice with a focus on equity, diversity, inclusion, Indigeneity and accessibility.
2. Explore challenges related to the demands of working with collaborative interdisciplinary teams composed of varied professionals and diverse partners.
3. Apply interprofessional education core competencies to the delivery of educational programs for the future workforce and the link this may have to improve health outcomes.
4. Analyze a practice setting and apply interprofessional education and collaborative practice principles to examine care delivery and the potential for quality improvement.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze implications of disability for people living with disabilities, their community support systems, health and social services personnel, and societal attitudes.
2. Synthesize language and classification systems regarding disability, and the models of disability used by researchers, scholars and activists.
3. Assess basic prevalence and distributions of disability in populations; regionally, nationally and globally.
4. Evaluate issues associated with disability, quality of life, social participation, services, benefits and policies.
5. Examine disability from a human rights perspective, demonstrating an understanding of international expectations in terms of rights and accommodations.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Debate current trends in CBR, international development, and opportunities for CBR research, policy making and service delivery.
2. Examine health and disability challenges in a CBR development setting.
3. Develop and demonstrate grant writing techniques to translate vision into project.
4. Interpret, analyze and integrate capacity building strategies in CBR into development projects and policy making.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify definitions of mental health outlined by global institutions to utilize in practice.
2. Articulate and contract the conflict of discourse by demonstrating mental health as shaped through a biomedical and traditionalist model.
3. Examine the mental health outcomes at the community level, notably for geriatric populations and people with disabilities, to highlight the challenges of health program development.
4. Analyze the role that technology and social media play in shaping the current mental health landscape to create tailored mental health interventions.
5. Evaluate mental health in the context of humanitarian crises to better inform practice and implementation of treatment.
6. Critically examine the construction, perpetuation, and distribution of mental health and disability knowledge in the Global North and Global South to inform policy.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and explain key theses and arguments that exist in the various theoretical or epistemological traditions reviewed in the course.
2. Use the theoretical and epistemological approaches to interrogate priority environmental health inequities.
3. Identify and describe connections between environment and health in a critical and respectful way.
4. Communicate effectively and collaboratively.
5. Critique and question the implications of current health promotion practices and assumptions.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the importance of settings to health promotion.
2. Describe key concepts and implications in promoting health from an ecological approach.
3. Identify sources and resources to construct an organizational/community profile.
4. Recognize one's positionality and how it relates to health promotion practice.
5. Discuss ethical issues in health promotion, including the need for developing authentic partnerships with organizations and communities.
6. Plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion interventions in diverse communities.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and administer strategies to assess community level health promotion needs.
2. Apply diverse evidence, theories, models, methods, and existing health promotion strategies, and programs to inform the development of a community health promotion plan.
3. Recognize the resources, steps and challenges involved in implementing health promotion activities.
4. Identify evaluation methods, data sources, measures and tools for tracking program delivery, developing evaluation questions and an evaluation design to measure program impact and outcomes.
5. Competently present a program design, implementation strategy and evaluation findings using a variety of approaches to engage specific audiences.
6. Model ethical and professional behaviour in developing a respectful working relationship with a community partner organization.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically engage with biomedical understandings of body weight and size by using socio-cultural perspectives.
2. Explore implications of thinking about body size only in terms of health and apply socio-cultural ways of understanding body size instead.
3. Apply different theoretical approaches to studying body size, including social constructionism, feminism, Foucauldian governmentality theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and masculinity theory.
4. Evaluate how understandings of body weight reinforce or resist other systems of privilege and oppression, including gender, race, class, and sexuality.
5. Analyze our own positions in our system of weight-based privilege and oppression.
6. Identify and analyze the ways in which bio-medicine and society more generally reproduces fat-phobia and fat-hatred.
7. Apply advanced critical thinking and writing skills to analyses of body size from socio-cultural perspectives. Contribute meaningfully to seminar discussions.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Contextualize health social movements, understand their origins and influence.
2. Distinguish between education, advocacy, and activist campaigns and identify key examples of health social movements.
3. Critically evaluate the successes and failures of health social movements and develop tools for analyzing health activism in a variety of forms (i.e., social media and marketing campaigns).
4. Discuss participatory research methods and the role of activist health research.
5. Develop organizing, communication and leadership skills that are key to effective health social movements.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the history of the HIV pandemic.
2. Outline major approaches to preventing HIV infection.
3. Critique HIV prevention interventions.
4. Demonstrate improved research, writing, and critical thinking skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the philosophy of harm reduction.
2. Describe the history of harm reduction.
3. Critique interventions using harm reduction principles.
4. Demonstrate improved research, writing, and critical thinking skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe sedentary behaviour: principles and concepts, levels in the population, physiology, and determinants in order to appreciate the sedentary behaviour field.
2. Generate a sedentary behaviour intervention to demonstrate ability to develop new ideas by integrating knowledge and understanding of movement behaviour principles, determinants, and intervention strategies.
3. Collaborate with peers on a project to learn how to work effectively with others.
4. Critically appraise sedentary behaviour research articles to demonstrate scientific skills and a deep understanding of sedentary behaviour.
5. Practice effective oral and written communication techniques to enhance others' understanding of a topic area.
6. Act in a manner consistent with academic integrity and professional practice to display scholastic and professional competence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply your research capacity in an academic setting.
2. Critically analyze issues in contemporary population health research.
3. Apply a strong theoretical foundation for the interrogation of priority health inequities facing Canada and the world today.
4. Combine independent and collaborative approaches toward collective learning objectives.
5. Articulate novel ideas in verbal and written formats.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to health studies under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Apply a systematic approach to identify, evaluate and synthesize the research literature on this topic.
3. Formulate original commentary and/or conclusions.
4. Practice scientific writing in the related disciplinary format with technical competence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically assess how conditions of power shape social determinants and health inequities.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of anti-Black racism and colonialism and their impact on the health of African/Black populations from an intersectional perspective.
3. Identify opportunities to operationalize strategies to advance racial health equity.
4. Apply clear, critical, and creative knowledge translation skills.
5. Collaborate with peers and apply leadership and public speaking skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to health studies under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Develop and implement, through a wide variety of options in terms of the design of the study, a project that involves the application of theoretical knowledge.
3. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills in the dissemination of the project.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine theoretical framings and understandings of various topics related to health promotion, physical activity and/or epidemiology.
2. Critically appraise and discuss relevant research literature.
3. Practice advanced skills in reading, writing, presenting, and discussing scholarly work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine theoretical framings and understandings of various topics related to psychology and socio-cultural studies of health and/or physical activity.
2. Critically appraise and discuss relevant research literature.
3. Practice advanced skills in reading, writing, presenting, and discussing scholarly work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze issues related to a special topic in the multidisciplinary field of Health Studies.
2. Discuss scholarly publications related to the special topic.
3. Apply different theoretical approaches to studying the special topic.
4. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to health studies under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Evaluate and synthesize research literature related to the thesis topic and describe the limitations of existing knowledge.
3. Design and implement an independent research study, evaluate and examine results, and generate novel conclusions based on findings.
4. Apply an appropriate research methodology to the investigation of the thesis topic.
5. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills in the dissemination of the thesis.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the basic structural and functional characteristics of types of cells (e.g. neural, muscle), organs (e.g. blood vessels, lungs) and organ systems relevant to human movement.
2. Accurately recite the conceptual framework of flow (both the equation for flow and the flow model) which will be used in this course to understand the underlying causal chain of events that constitute physiological function.
3. Apply the conceptual framework of flow to predict how physiological systems adapt in response to a disturbance in the system (i.e. human movement).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Define concepts governing rigid-body motion, including kinematics, forces, and moments.
2. Use Newtonian's Laws to write and solve equations of motion of rigid bodies.
3. Use the mechanical principles of rigid body motion in the context of human movement to quantify forces, moments, and resulting motion of the body as a whole, as well as its individual segments.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate the place of sport in contemporary North American society.
2. Reflect on social and personal experiences of sport.
3. Develop critical thinking skills question in order to question aspects of sport that are commonly taken-for-granted.
4. Discuss sociological concepts and reasoning.
5. Practice identifying and constructing arguments.
6. Develop effective written and oral communication skills.
7. Apply sociological thinking in analyses of social issues in sport.
8. Identify relevant academic literature and forms of writing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe what a given component in a physiological system is and does to facilitate “physiological literacy.”
2. Explain and illustrate the key principles guiding physiological function and homeostatic regulation to guide building physiological system models.
3. Explain and illustrate integrated physiological models to inform their application in understanding changes in any physiological variable.
4. Develop and apply physiological models based on key principles of physiological function for several different physiological systems to solve physiological problems.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply your physiological literacy through continued opportunities to identify and describe what components of a physiological system do.
2. Apply physiological models and key principles of physiological function to solve physiological problems.
3. Describe responses to exercise and to solve physiological problems within the context of exercise.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically evaluate knowledge related to motor development.
2. Describe the physiological, psychosocial, and sociocultural aspects of motor development.
3. Analyze and discuss a range of approaches and techniques for the evaluation of motor development.
4. Read, synthesize, and translate research findings.
5. Evaluate experimental approaches to motor behaviour assessment.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the features of a data set to determine how best to summarize and display it.
2. Choose the appropriate statistical test and provide the rationale for selection.
3. Compute basic parametric statistical tests to test hypotheses.
4. Interpret the results of statistical tests and data software output to draw valid conclusions.
5. Communicate results of statistical analyses with clear figures and text.
6. Apply knowledge of statistics and research design (e.g., sampling) to critically evaluate research findings.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe fundamental mechanical principles and theories that govern human movement.
2. Use mechanical principles to interpret and solve biomechanical problems.
3. Analyze, summarize and report biomechanical data.
4. Recognize how biomechanics can be applied to other disciplines.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe basic concepts related to physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, sedentary behaviour and health, and the interrelationship among these variables.
2. Describe the dose-response relationships between physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and selected health outcomes.
3. Describe the forms of evidence used to answer questions related to physical activity and health risk factors and health outcomes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate motor skill learning in a variety of contexts.
2. Identify the underlying behavioural, neural, and mechanical principles that contribute to motor skill learning.
3. Read, synthesize, and translate research findings.
4. Utilize experimental approaches to the assessment of motor behaviours.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically evaluate knowledge related to psychological dimensions of sport and exercise.
2. Describe theories that inform the work being conducted in the field.
3. Translate the information acquired from the research to more practical situations (e.g., exercise participant adherence, arousal regulation in sport).
4. Analyze and discuss a range of approaches and techniques used to evaluate sport participation and performance (at both the individual and team levels) and exercise outcomes.
5. Use writing as a mechanism for information consolidation and learning.
6. Practice and demonstrate effective writing skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply professional development resources to prepare and utilize a professional cover letter and resume, as well as employ effective interview and networking skills to secure a placement opportunity.
2. Practice professional skills such as: leadership, adaptability, written and oral communication, inquiry and analysis, self-management, time management, collaboration and critical thinking through seminar and placement experience.
3. Employ knowledge gained through theory-based courses in an intensive practicum experience (relevant to the field of study), to then critically reflect on connections and/or gaps between course content, scientific literature and observations of professional practice.
4. Describe current advances, practices, organizational culture and professional etiquette used in field-related workplaces (e.g., local business, public sector, health care, and community-based settings).
5. Evaluate and critique personal performance throughout practicum experience based on individualized placement learning objectives.
6. Identify career options in the field of study, through seminar discussions around students’ practicum experiences.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and differentiate key models of coaching and leadership.
2. Observe and interpret coaching behaviours.
3. Identify factors that influence skill acquisition and athlete development.
4. Explore strategies to improve coaching effectiveness and reflect on various coaching practices.
5. Evaluate and critique coaching research.
6. Adapt course content to propose practical applications for coaches, athletes, parents, and sport practitioners.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the physiological responses to exercise that influence performance capacity.
2. Organize and conduct human performance capacity assessments to obtain valid and reliable responses and measures.
3. Integrate knowledge of laboratory and field performance capacity assessments to distinguish the contexts and populations that are most suited for each assessment.
4. Investigate exercise physiology and exercise testing literature to explore advances in exercise testing techniques and the interpretation of physiological responses.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply knowledge gained through theory-based courses in an intensive practicum experience in athletic therapy.
2. Practice emergency care, field assessments, first aid, taping, and stretching with varsity athletes.
3. Apply the concepts of the healing cycle to high performance athletes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify key approaches to the prevention of athletic injuries.
2. Practice care and treatment of athletic injuries.
3. Describe rehabilitation of athletic injuries.
4. Apply preventive and supporting taping of athletic injuries.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine the diverse processes of healthy aging within community, healthcare, and long-term care contexts.
2. Identify and critically examine models and discourses of aging, and how these relate to physical health, mental health, cognitive health, and social relationships.
3. Deconstruct and describe the implications of, and interventions for, physical, mental, cognitive, and social aging.
4. Effectively discuss and critique the barriers and stereotypes to healthy aging.
5. Discuss, write, and apply theory to practice as it relates to healthy aging.
6. Recognize societal and individual implications of healthy aging.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Model appropriate behaviour and communications skills when interacting with persons living with a disability in diverse settings which may include one or more of the following: an online exercise program, a telephone-based goal setting program, and/or in-person, community-based exercise program.
2. Apply knowledge of disability groups and knowledge of exercise programming when promoting exercise and recreational opportunities for persons living with a disability.
3. Conduct online and/or in-person exercise program reassessments for persons living with a disability (e.g., clinical exercise prescription).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the factors that shape the quality of physical activity experiences and their influence on children’s and youth’s development.
2. Design and effectively deliver physical activity programming in a variety of settings, including classrooms, gymnasiums, and playgrounds.
3. Evaluate and critique the appropriateness of different approaches to promoting physical activity among children and youth.
4. Apply course content to practical settings.
5. Reflect on connections and/or gaps between course content and practical implementation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply knowledge gained through theory-based courses in an intensive experiential learning opportunity focussed on current topics in kinesiology and health studies.
2. Analyze the impact of relevant public policies and community-based programming on physical activity and/or sport participation in diverse communities.
3. Participate in skill building activities related to the fields of kinesiology and health studies in community, natural/outdoor or professional settings.
4. Apply effective written, communication and collaboration skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply advanced knowledge of mechanisms underlying classic and current topics in exercise metabolism.
2. Describe methodology used in exercise metabolism.
3. Describe results and methodologies presented in primary references from exercise metabolism: a. Utilize primary articles as a reference material; b. Efficiently extract study methodologies (subjects, experimental protocols, materials and methods); c. Interpret results within the contexts of 339, exercise metabolism, and health.
4. Develop problem statements that integrate physiological models and test speculative propositions using primary references from exercise metabolism.
5. Independently learn and integrate information on selected topics in exercise metabolism.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the basic applications of the exercise sciences (Musculoskeletal, Neuromuscular, Cardiorespiratory, Bioenergetics, Endocrine and Biomechanics) within the context of a physical training program.
2. Recognize professional pathways into the fields of personal training and strength and conditioning.
3. Coach progressions and regressions of movement patterns and properly cue exercises to develop appropriate movement patterns.
4. Describe and administer the principles of sport testing, warmups, mobility, resistance training, energy system development and recovery modalities.
5. Apply programming periodization models that allow for performance planning and yearly/monthly/weekly training planning.
6. Apply the principles of velocity-based training, using the GymAware technology. This technology will allow students to bridge the gap between research and practical training with real time measurement.
7. Integrate all components of a sport training program to produce an effective and multifaceted yearly training plan.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply foundational training principles while being an active coach in the daily training environment with our varsity student athletes.
2. Perform a detailed needs analysis, understanding the underpinning physical qualities required for performance and athlete development.
3. Effectively and efficiently prepare excel monitoring documents for tracking athlete development (i.e., performance and wellness monitoring).
4. Develop practical relationship building strategies and effective behaviours to create long term success in coaching and the professional world. An emphasis will be placed on the soft skills of coaching.
5. Model competence and confidence in overseeing a training session for varsity athletes. This includes overseeing the dynamic warmup, program explanation, exercise technique, adjustments based on injury status and management of the training facility.
6. Discuss the return to play process and how to integrate with sports medicine to effectively assist recovering athletes.
7. Employ appropriate training progressions and principles for speed development, COD/agility, ESD, plyometrics and return to play.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze existing literature related to sports nutrition.
2. Develop and apply nutritional interventions to enhance exercise performance and recovery.
3. Identify and describe key fundamental principles underlying applied sports nutrition.
4. Identify and describe the major energy producing pathways during resistance and endurance exercise.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss multidisciplinary research methodologies used in SKHS research labs/programs.
2. Practice various aspects of the research process including data collection/analysis, literature searches, manuscript writing, presentation skills, etc. through a research development practicum in an SKHS research lab/program.
3. Apply effective written and oral/visual communication skills.
4. Model ethical behaviour consistent with the responsible conduct of research and professional practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the technologies used to investigate human neuromechanics during movement.
2. Collect, process, analyze and interpret human neuromechanical data.
3. Develop problem solving and critical thinking skills through coding and data analysis.
4. Apply teamwork skills through group laboratory work.
5. Communicate scientific findings through written lab reports.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the role of ergonomics as scientific process that can be applied to improve workplace productivity and decrease injury risks.
2. Describe the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system in the context of occupational performance and associated musculoskeletal disorders.
3. Observe and report on physical demands in the workplace.
4. Apply biomechanical methods, self-report surveys and ergonomic hazard assessment tools to evaluate the ergonomics of a workstation.
5. Analyze and interpret ergonomics and occupational biomechanics data to identify high-risk work tasks.
6. Critically review ergonomics literature.
7. Clearly and concisely communicate (oral and verbal) ergonomics information.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Use effective communication skills to develop patient/client rapport and to gather essential subjective information used to establish collaborative patient/client-centred goals.
2. Construct clear and comprehensive records for patient/client interactions.
3. Organize and conduct pre-exercise screening and physical assessments using evidence-based practices.
4. Select, administer, and interpret appropriate clinical exercise testing for cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness, flexibility, and balance.
5. Self-reflect on experiential learning experiences and provide and receive constructive peer feedback to improve exercise assessment skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Use effective communication skills during clinical interviews to develop patient/client rapport and to gather essential subjective information used to establish collaborative patient/client-centered goals and exercise programs.
2. Select, administer, and interpret appropriate assessments for cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness, flexibility, and balance.
3. Develop, implement, evaluate and refine patient/client-centred exercise programs for healthy adults and a diverse range of patient populations throughout the continuum of care.
4. Construct clear and comprehensive records for all patient/client interactions.
5. Self-reflect on experiential learning experiences and provide and receive constructive peer feedback aimed at improving their exercise assessment and prescription skills.
6. Investigate current literature on exercise testing and prescription for healthy adults and a diverse range of patient populations.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the salience of groups in sport contexts and their significance in enabling productive and satisfying sport experiences.
2. Examine seminal and contemporary research related to team dynamics.
3. Identify, synthesize, and critically evaluate research pertaining to team dynamics in sport.
4. Discuss how team-related constructs are used to enhance sport experiences and performance.
5. Apply theory and research that supports practical use of team strategies in the ‘real world.’

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the processes of motivational interviewing in order to conduct responsible consultations that address health behaviour change in clinical settings.
2. Create an inclusive environment that supports the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of the individual seeking counselling services.
3. Apply motivational interviewing skills and knowledge to understand the challenges associated with physical activity and health behaviour change.
4. Critically evaluate health behaviour change theories and strategies to assess their relationship and relevance with motivational interviewing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the theory learned in this course to sport management, sport policy, health promotion, and/or medical contexts.
2. Discuss issues around race, ethnicity, and racism as they pertain to sports and physical activity.
3. Recognize how race intersects with other forms of oppression and privilege.
4. Recognize the difference between diversity/inclusion work versus justice-oriented work.
5. Use online platforms to translate research for a public audience.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Reflect on the meaning of fitness and physical activity in everyday life.
2. Investigate fitness, exercise and bodies as not just physical but also complex cultural, historical, economic and political phenomena.
3. Reflect on embodiment as both concept and experience.
4. Apply the art of asking good questions.
5. Apply advanced skills in reading, writing, speaking, and analysis, especially the identification, assessment and construction of arguments.
6. Model ethical, collaborative, and professional behaviour in group work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe key issues related to a special topic in the multidisciplinary field of Kinesiology.
2. Evaluate, and discuss the limitations of, existing knowledge about the special topic.
3. Practice effective oral and written communication skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Define a registered kinesiologist’s scope of practice and identify how to develop collaborative relationships with other allied health professionals.
2. Compare and contrast professional associations and professional regulatory bodies to recognize the importance of each.
3. Describe the expectations and responsibilities of a kinesiologist using the applicable legislation, regulations, practice standards and practice guidelines.
4. Demonstrate an ability to reflect, evaluate and manage real, potential and perceived ethical and legal dilemmas in business and clinical practice.
5. Integrate concepts of cultural diversity, cultural humility and the process of pursuing cultural competence in clinical scenarios.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe stress, physiological stress response activation and its short and long term consequences in order to support advanced topic discussion.
2. Apply an understanding of physiological stress responses to explain mechanisms by which stress can influence physical function and health.
3. Describe nature and physiological impact of selected stress management strategies to consider potential value as interventions.
4. Interpret, evaluate, propose and present research related to physiological responses to psychological stress in order to make evidence based arguments, generate hypotheses, answer questions and demonstrate communication skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain and illustrate cardiovascular and respiratory responses to exercise, and their mechanisms in order to inform expertise in integrative cardiovascular and respiratory exercise physiology.
2. Create and apply key principle, cause-effect and physiological models to predict and interpret cardiovascular and respiratory support of exercising muscle and the mechanisms responsible.
3. Evaluate, interpret and communicate scientific literature to facilitate evidence-based understanding of advances in cardiovascular and respiratory exercise physiology related to oxygen delivery demand matching.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Model leadership and professional skills including initiative, responsibility, teamwork and decision making in an advanced practicum experience in athletic therapy.
2. Perform emergency care, field assessments, first aid, taping, and stretching with varsity athletes.
3. Practice clinical assessments of injuries, use of therapeutic modalities, rehabilitative exercise prescription, and safe return to sport guidelines.
4. Recognize activities involved in the operation of an athletic therapy clinic.
5. Practice effective communication skills (written, oral and/or visual).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Compare traditional and contemporary ways of understanding disability.
2. With examples, communicate how sport can be used as a tool for development in different context.
3. Critically evaluate the impact of sport for development on persons with disabilities.
4. Recognize the historical context in which sport for persons with disabilities developed and analyze the influence of its origin on contemporary global sporting events for persons with disabilities.
5. Critically evaluate the impact of global sporting events for persons with disabilities.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Conduct appropriate exercise programming and reassessments for persons with a disability in an online and/or community-based exercise program.
2. Demonstrate appropriate behaviour and communication skills when interacting with persons with a disability in an online exercise setting and/or a community-based gym setting.
3. Display appropriate leadership and communication skills when providing informational and tangible support to peers and persons living with a disability.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of current topics in exercise/muscle physiology and an ability to discuss these topics within the context of physiological models.
2. Discuss methodology used in muscle physiology.
3. Read and critique literature from the field of muscle physiology: Identify and evaluate problem statements; Extract and present prior literature that supports each proposition statement; Evaluate appropriateness/strengths/weaknesses of study design and methodology; Discuss importance/significance for the general public.
4. Translate scientific articles in a form appropriate for public consumption.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assist in the development of a sport specific performance plan, considering the holistic demands of the student athlete.
2. Practice the strategies of athlete monitoring (physical, wellness, and training load).
3. Model leadership within their respective team training environments, via coaching in both the High Performance Training Centre and sport practice.
4. Model professionalism with sport coaches to employ integrated training programs to best support in-season competition.
5. Students will engage in the mentorship of younger interns to assist in their development as evolving coaches.
6. Network and build connections in the sport performance field while learning from Queen’s alumni and performance specialists in multiple domains.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and explain the role of physiological systems in determining exercise performance and tolerance to effectively assess physiological responses to exercise.
2. Apply conceptual understanding of physiological function to predict the effects of disturbances on physiological responses in exercise.
3. Apply measurement techniques and experimental protocol principles to obtain valid physiological response data.
4. Compose laboratory reports to effectively communicate scientific background, laboratory methods, results and their interpretation.
5. Integrate methodological and conceptual expertise developed in this course to independently develop, explore and present findings on a question about physiological function in exercise.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply advanced knowledge translation skills in the form of scientific presentations.
2. Critically evaluate strengths and weaknesses of study designs related to experimental research.
3. Identify key factors affecting human skeletal muscle protein turnover and gain a cursory knowledge of experimental methods used to study skeletal muscle growth.
4. Independently develop an experimental approach to address an existing knowledge gap in the nutritional and exercise sciences.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe ergonomic issues associated with systems and devices involving human interfaces, with attention to the range of abilities expected in the population.
2. Design and describe practical user-centred designs of devices and systems that incorporate current best practices in the application of ergonomic design principles, including the use of universal design methods.
3. Understanding risks involved in workplace environments from the physiological and biomechanical perspectives.
4. Experience Interdisciplinary Interaction between kinesiology and engineering students in assessment of risk for manual materials handling.
5. Effectively communicate and present ideas.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the relationship and interplay between the mechanics of the body and the control of the nervous system.
2. Explain why metabolic energy cost is considered not only an important outcome of movement, but also a relevant control objective.
3. Discuss why the mechanics, energetics, and control of locomotion are important to consider when designing rehabilitation strategies and assistive devices.
4. Interpret, present and discuss foundational experiments in neuromechanics.
5. Propose and pilot a locomotor experiment.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Operate traditional biomechanical equipment, including motion capture systems, force platforms, and electromyography.
2. Perform traditional biomechanical analysis of human movement, including inverse kinematics and inverse dynamics using the experimental data.
3. Perform advanced musculoskeletal simulations using state-of-the-art methods to quantify muscle and joint contact forces during movement.
4. Gain an understanding of the biomechanical characteristics of some of the most common musculoskeletal disorders, including osteoarthritis, lower limb amputation, ACL injuries, balance impairment, and stroke.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Describe processes involved in moving knowledge derived from high quality evidence into practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to kinesiology under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Apply a systematic approach to identify, evaluate and synthesize the research literature on this topic.
3. Formulate original commentary and/or conclusions.
4. Practice scientific writing in the related disciplinary format with technical competence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and describe the nature and significance of particular clinical issues when examining examples of physiological data.
2. Explain the pathophysiology of selected clinical conditions and the impact of the condition on the acute exercise response.
3. Interpret and discuss evidence regarding the potential benefit of exercise in relation to selected clinical conditions.
4. Interpret, evaluate propose and present research related to exercise physiology and clinical conditions in order to make evidence based arguments, generate hypotheses, answer questions and demonstrate communication skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the importance of settings to physical activity involvement.
2. Discuss the importance of social determinants to physical activity involvement.
3. Identify current programs and strategies to promote physical activity involvement in Canada, Ontario, and Kingston.
4. Describe key concepts and implications in promoting physical activity from an ecological approach.
5. Identify sources and resources to construct an organizational/community profile.
6. Identify ethical issues in promoting community physical activity involvement, including the need for developing authentic partnership with organizations and communities.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the importance and differentiate between several types of sporting activities and their influence on athletes’ participation, performance, and personal development.
2. Describe the role that social agents—such as coaches, parents, and peers—have in influencing an athlete’s development at different ages and stages in life.
3. Identify how different sport settings and environmental resources shape athlete development, including the roles of contextual factors, such as relative age and birthplace effects.
4. Identify, describe, and critique the appropriateness of different methodological approaches to study athlete development in and through sport.
5. Evaluate course content and propose practical applications for athletes, coaches, parents, and sport practitioners to undertake.
6. Develop quality research questions and proposals.
7. Practice writing engaging literature reviews and research proposals.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply critical approaches to pedagogy and education.
2. Discuss current social issues and relate these to our own lives.
3. Recognize sport as both a site of oppression and a tool for social change.
4. Describe the links between social issues and sport.
5. Practice advanced reading, writing and oral communication skills for academic and non-academic situations.
6. Practice strong listening skills.
7. Apply the art of asking good questions.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically assess how sport impacts our physical environment and how climate degradation is affecting sports.
2. Differentiate between environmental approaches including prevention, mitigation, and adaptation.
3. Compare and contrast colonial versus Indigenous approaches to nature.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to kinesiology under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Develop and implement, through a wide variety of options in terms of the design of the study, a project that involves the application of theoretical knowledge.
3. Practice effective oral and written communication skills in the dissemination of the project.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze issues related to a special topic in the multidisciplinary field of Kinesiology.
2. Discuss scholarly publications related to the special topic.
3. Apply different theoretical approaches to studying the special topic.
4. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to kinesiology under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Evaluate and synthesize research literature related to the thesis topic and describe the limitations of existing knowledge.
3. Design and implement an independent research study, evaluate and examine results, and generate novel conclusions based on findings.
4. Apply an appropriate research methodology to the investigation of the thesis topic.
5. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills in the dissemination of the thesis.