Bachelor of Science [B.S] [Exercise Science] From Winston Salem State University

The physiologists and physicians in that lab were interested in how various occupations and environmental conditions affected the body?s physical performance. The model of research investigations by the faculty and graduate students in areas that included metabolism, environmental physiology, clinical physiology, aging, blood, nutrition and physical fitness, forms the basis of much of what we know and study today. More recently fitness and its relationship to preventable disease has driven a large body of research by exercise physiologists. The field continues to evolve from the study of the role of exercise in performance and disease prevention at the population level to the study of mechanisms at the cellular and genetic levels. Because of the required science foundation, students are prepared for work in fitness, performance and rehabilitation fields as well as, graduate study in fields that study cellular mechanisms that underlie disease and performance.

Students enrolled in the exercise science major program will examine the physiological changes and adaptations that occur at both the whole body and cellular levels with physical activity and inactivity.