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Do you love sports and attending sporting events? Do you want a degree where you can foster your love of sports into a lifelong career in the sports field?

East Carolina University's BS in sport performance science program allows you to study nearly every aspect of sport, from science to sociology to management. This degree helps you learn how you can integrate all the different ways that sport interacts with our culture and begin to put those principles into practice. The degree offers a broad view of the sport industry and its connection to our society. The breadth of experience you can gain in the field is outstanding. This degree program will allow you to understand the sport industry from many different angles, giving you the choice as to how you will put that into practice in a vast array of sport settings.

The BS in sport performance science is a degree that can be shaped to meet your personal career goals. The program has a required minor, giving you the option to choose minor coursework that will further strengthen your skills as you go out into the working world in your chosen field. Popular minor coursework for sports studies majors includes business administration, communication, leadership studies, merchandising, psychology, and recreation and park management.

ECU Advantage

The program at East Carolina University is unique in its ability to give you the choice about the path you want to take. Along with a minor that helps further prepare you for your career aspirations, the BS in sport performance science also requires a full-semester internship in your chosen field. Not only do we prepare you with the classroom knowledge of concepts and principles, but we set you in a position to put those principles into actual practice in the working environment. Our students have enjoyed success in many different areas of sport, including professional sport management, collegiate athletic administration, sport psychology, physical therapy, personal training, and strength and conditioning. The ECU sport performance science program gives you the opportunity to pursue the career in sports that you really want and provides you the chance to choose the best path that will get you there.

What You Will Study

Program Coordinator: Patrick Rider (150 Minges Coliseum; 252-737-2370; riderp@ecu.edu)

The Sport Performance Science, BS program provides students expertise in broad exercise and sport science principles and develops a technical and data analysis skillset to pursue jobs in sport performance science. The program aims to prepare students for entry level positions working with human performance populations including but not limited to military and sport, and to pursue further academic training in sport performance science domains.

A minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA and 32 s.h. of general education coursework are required for admission to the program. A minimum grade of C (2.0) is needed in all required KINE courses for successful completion of the degree. The degree requires the student to declare an approved minor or professional certificate.

The degree requires a minimum of 120 s.h. as follows:

1. General education requirements including those listed below - 40 s.h.

(For information about courses that carry general education credit view the General Education Program section.)

  • BIOL 1050 - General Biology AND
  • BIOL 1051 - General Biology Laboratory
    • OR
  • BIOL 1100 - Principles of Biology I AND
  • BIOL 1101 - Principles of Biology Laboratory I
    • OR
  • BIOL 1150 - Principles of Biology: A Human Approach AND
  • BIOL 1151 - Principles of Biology: A Human Approach Discussion

  • COMM 2020 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication
    • OR
  • COMM 2410 - Public Speaking

  • HLTH 1000 - Health in Modern Society AND
  • KINE 1000 - Lifetime Physical Activity and Fitness Laboratory I

  • MATH 1065 - College Algebra

  • PHIL 1110 - Introduction to Philosophy
    • OR
  • PHIL 1175 - Introduction to Ethics
    • OR
  • PHIL 1180 - Introduction to Critical Reasoning
    • OR
  • PHIL 2274 - Business Ethics

  • PHYS 1250 - General Physics I
  • PSYC 1000 - Introductory Psychology
  • RCSC 2601 - Leisure in Society
2. Core - 41 s.h.

A minimum grade of C (2.0) is needed in all required KINE courses for successful completion of the degree.

  • KINE 2050 - Computer Applications in Exercise and Sport Science
  • KINE 2202 - Motor Learning and Performance
  • KINE 2850 - Structural Kinesiology
  • KINE 2900 - Teaching Skillful Movement
  • KINE 3109 - Sport Analytics
  • KINE 3300 - Applied Sports Psychology
  • KINE 3600 - Coaching Theories
  • KINE 3805 - Physiology of Exercise
  • KINE 3850 - Introduction to Biomechanics
  • KINE 4050 - Measurement in Sport Performance Science

  • KINE 4700 - Internship in Sport Performance Science
    • OR
  • KINE 4710 - Field Experience in Sport Performance Science I AND
  • KINE 4720 - Field Experience in Sport Performance Science II

  • KINE 4701 - Professional Seminar for Sport Performance Science
3. Cognates - 17 s.h.
  • BIOL 2130 - Survey of Human Physiology and Anatomy
  • MATH 2228 - Elementary Statistical Methods I
  • MIS 3013 - Introduction to Applied Data Analytics
  • MIS 3733 - Data and Text Mining

  • NUTR 1000 - Contemporary Nutrition
    • OR
  • NUTR 2105 - Nutrition Science

  • PHYS 1251 - General Physics Laboratory I
4. Approved minor or certificate - 18 s.h.
    5. General electives to complete requirements for graduation.
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