The bachelor of science - clinical physiology specifically prepares students to enter graduate or specialized post-baccalaureate professional programs in critical high-demand, health-care arenas including physical and occupational therapy, physicians’ assistants, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, sports medicine-athletic training, chiropractic medicine, and others. This degree also prepares students for advanced graduate study in integrated human and exercise physiology. Most clinical health-care professions require education beyond the bachelor degree level. Additional courses may be needed to satisfy all prerequisites for admission eligibility to some graduate and professional programs.
A grade of C or higher is required in all pre-admission, required courses, and elective courses in this major.
Program Learner Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of structural components and the interrelationships between these structural components in the human organism.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the physiologic processes that govern organism functioning and maintain homeostasis with specific emphasis on humans.
- Describe the impact of personal behaviors - lifestyle decisions (e.g.) physical activity and energy balance on human structural and functional integrity.
- Identify, describe, and employ the various components of scientific inquiry including deductive reasoning, the analysis of data and the establishment of defensible conclusions.
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