MSS and Athletic Training Major Courses
MSS 151 - Health and Physical Fitness Strategies
Health and physical fitness principles applied to individual and community.
4.000 Credit Hours
Course Attributes:GEPE Fitness for Life
MSS 199 - Independent Study
Student-designed courses approved by a faculty member. Prior approval of goals, objectives, procedures, and assessment plan as directed in the Independent Study Manual is required. Offered in every department at appropriate levels.
1.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 230 - Field Work and Foundations of Movement and Sports Science
Historical, sociological, and psychological foundations of physical education. Students also observe physical education programs at the elementary, intermediate, and high school levels.
4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 235 - Introduction to Athletic Training
Introduces the profession of athletic training, including the history, philosophies, career, and advanced educational opportunities of the field. Emphasizes prevention and care of injuries.
4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 237 - Techniques and Observation in Athletic Training
Applies basic techniques in athletic training. Includes fitting of protective equipment, construction of protective padding, injury taping, transportation of injured. Students observe services provided by athletic trainers.
2.000 Credit Hours
MSS 250 - Introduction to Adapted Physical Education
Methods of teaching physical education to the handicapped. Offers a wide spectrum of activities, types of handicapping conditions, and ramifications of mainstreaming.
4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 320 - Theory and Methods of Coaching
Covers individual techniques and fundamentals, team play, systems and philosophies of leading contemporary coaches, psychology of sport and coaching, and rules and training methods.
2.000 Credit Hours
MSS 323 - Scientific Principles of Movement
Scientifically studies the basic concepts and mechanical principles of efficient human movement. Applies these concepts to fundamental physical skills.
2.000 Credit Hours
MSS 324 - Evaluation and Assessment of Athletic Injuries-Lower Extremities
Focuses on recognition and evaluation of athletic injuries to the lower extremities, assessing the history and mechanism of the injury, and utilizing critical skills in selecting evaluative tests.
4.000 Credit Hours
Corequisites: MSS 325
Prerequisites:
Admission to the ATEP. Undergraduate level MSS 235 Minimum Grade of C- and Undergraduate level MSS 237 Minimum Grade of C- and Undergraduate level BIOL 343 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 325 - Athletic Training Practicum I
Focuses on application and proficiency in skills introduced in 324. Requires a minimum of 100 hours in the athletic training room setting.
1.000 Credit Hours
Corequisites: MSS 324
Prerequisites:
Admission to the ATEP. Undergraduate level MSS 235 Minimum Grade of C- and Undergraduate level MSS 237 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 326 - Evaluation and Assessment of Athletic Injuries-Upper Extremities
Focuses on recognition and evaluation of athletic injuries to the upper extremities, assessing the history and mechanism of the injury, and utilizing critical skills in selecting evaluative tests.
4.000 Credit Hours
Corequisites: MSS 327
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 235 Minimum Grade of C- and Undergraduate level MSS 237 Minimum Grade of C- and Undergraduate level BIOL 343 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 327 - Athletic Training Practicum II
Focuses on application and proficiency in skills introduced in 326. Requires a minimum of 100 hours in the athletic training room setting.
1.000 Credit Hours
Corequisites: MSS 326
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 235 Minimum Grade of C- and Undergraduate level MSS 237 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 328 - Evaluation and Assessment of Head and Spinal Injuries
Covers recognition, evaluation, assessment, and consequent care of head and spinal injuries. Includes practical application techniques and clinical proficiency testing.
4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 330 - Physical Education for Elementary School Teachers
Includes movement exploration, games, rhythms, dances, guided play, gymnastics, and self-testing activities. Requires Junior standing. Not challengeable.
4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 333 - Curriculum and Organization in Physical Education
Curriculum content and development for public school programs. Organizational procedures for the instructional period.
4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 345 - Methods of Research, Assessment, and Evaluation
Covers criteria for evaluation, methods of research, and the function of measurement and evaluation of test scores in physical education.
4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 360 - Psychology of Coaching
Current topics of psychological concern and application as related to athletic performance.
2.000 Credit Hours
MSS 370 - Methods and Practice of Teaching Dual Sports and Aquatics
Covers methods of teaching dual sports (e.g., badminton, tennis, racquetball, squash, and aquatics), including basic swimming strokes. Utilizes biomechanical principles and video analysis.
3.000 Credit Hours
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 333 Minimum Grade of D
MSS 371 - Methods and Practice of Teaching Individual Sports and Outdoor Education
Covers methods of teaching individual sports including golf, archery, bowling, cycling, jogging/track, combatives, and outdoor education. Utilizes biomechanical principles and video analysis.
3.000 Credit Hours
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 333 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 372 - Methods and Practice of Teaching Team Sports and Games
Covers methods of teaching team sports and games, including softball, basketball, volleyball, flag football, soccer, Frisbee games, boche ball, and earthball. Utilizes biomechanical principles and video analysis.
3.000 Credit Hours
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 333 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 373 - Methods and Practice of Teaching Gymnastics
Covers methods of teaching gymnastics. Includes tumbling, parallel bars, balance beam, and floor exercise in gymnastics. Utilizes biomechanical principles and video analysis.
2.000 Credit Hours
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 333 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 380 - Motor Development
Studies the stages of growth and development from birth to adulthood, including how people develop locomotor and non-locomotor skills.
3.000 Credit Hours
MSS 399 - Independent Study
Student-designed courses approved by a faculty member. Prior approval of goals, objectives, procedures, and assessment plan as directed in the Independent Study Manual is required. May be taken multiple times with a different topic for credit. Not challengeable.
1.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 400 - General Medical Conditions in Athletic Training
Students experience duties and responsibilities inherent in working with intercollegiate athletic teams and will be assigned to a certified athletic trainer/clinical instructor.
2.000 Credit Hours
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 237 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 410 - Exercise and Rehabilitation
Covers use of therapeutic exercise in rehabilitation of injuries. Discusses role of exercise injury prevention. Students research and design rehabilitative exercise programs for specific injuries.
3.000 Credit Hours
MSS 411 - Athletic Training Practicum III
Emphasizes application of principles of rehabilitation covered in 410 and 412. With aid of certified athletic trainer/clinical instructor, students design, implement, document, and evaluate rehabilitation programs for athletes with specific injuries.
2.000 Credit Hours
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level MSS 410 Minimum Grade of C- and Undergraduate level MSS 412 Minimum Grade of C-
MSS 412 - Therapeutic Modalities
Focuses on application and efficacy of therapeutic modalities used in injury rehabilitation. Examines basic physics of electrical modalities. Covers physiological processes of wound healing and tissue repair and their influence on rehabilitation.
3.000 Credit Hours
MSS 415 - Management and Administration in Athletic Training
Covers management of a program that provides health care to athletes. Includes documentation, confidentiality, pre-participation exams, SOAP notes, insurance, and communications with other medical facilities, budgets, and facility design.
3.000 Credit Hours
MSS 418 - Special Topics in Athletic Training
Addresses contemporary issues in athletic training. Includes special populations, alternative medicine, pharmacology, and other topics, as well as interaction with other allied health experts.
2.000 Credit Hours
MSS 420 - Assistant in Physical Education Program
Teaching assistant in PE Department activity and sports program under direction and supervision of MSS staff. May be repeated. Requires department approval. Not challengeable.
2.000 Credit Hours
MSS 454 - Athletic Training-Team Management
Providing for healthcare management of an intercollegiate athletic team under direct supervision of a certified athletic trainer. Requires a written application and department approval. May be repeated for credit.
2.000 Credit Hours
MSS 455 - Kinesiology
Body movements in athletics and physical education activities. Sequential movement patterns in the human body.
4.000 Credit Hours
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level BIOL 343 Minimum Grade of D
MSS 456 - Physiology of Exercise
Effects of physical activity organic systems. Emphasizes scope of muscular physiology and integrates epistemological and functional physiology. Lab included.
4.000 Credit Hours
Corequisites: MSS 456L
Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level BIOL 343 Minimum Grade of D
MSS 456L - Physiology of Exercise Lab
See MSS 456 - Physiology of Exercise Lab
0.000 Credit Hours
Corequisites: MSS 456
MSS 460 - Philosophy of Physical Education and Athletics
Approaches to physical education and related areas with emphasis on contemporary theories and practices. Open to juniors and seniors only. Not challengeable.
3.000 Credit Hours
MSS 480 - Special Topics
Senior or graduate level independent study course. Area of study determined by professor and student. Can be taken for letter grade only. Not challengeable.
2.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours
MSS 497 - Athletic Training Internship
Supervised, off-campus athletic training experience in a sports medicine/physical therapy clinic. 80 contact hours minimum required. Must be approved by athletic training program supervisor. Seniors only.
1.000 Credit Hours
MSS 499 - Senior Project
Culminating activity required by majors in all departments. Papers/theses/projects researched, prepared, and written under the guidance of a faculty member. Comprehensive exams or recitals required in some departments. Academically, Students must be in Good Standing to enroll in 499. Can be taken for letter grade only. Not challengeable.
1.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours
1.000 Credit Hours
MSS 499 - Senior Project
Culminating activity required by majors in all departments. Papers/theses/projects researched, prepared, and written under the guidance of a faculty member. Comprehensive exams or recitals required in some departments. Academically, Students must be in Good Standing to enroll in 499. Can be taken for letter grade only. Not challengeable.
1.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours
