Master of Science in Kinesiology and Health Promotion - Motor Learning (Thesis)

The Master’s program with a concentration in Motor Learning and Control (MLC) prepares students for careers related to coaching, physical education, human physiology and therapeutic rehabilitation. Students in this program will focus on learning behavioral theories of human perception and action, as well as the behavioral, biomechanical, and neural mechanisms underlying motor control and skill acquisition. Students are encouraged to participate in and develop original research ideas to be tested within the state-of-the-art laboratory. Students will also obtain practical and clinical experiences through working with people of different ages, backgrounds, and health conditions. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the MLC program, students are encouraged to take course work in areas including biomechanics, psychology, neuroscience, statistics and engineering. We encourage all students to collaborate with faculty and students in those areas in an effort to develop research ideas and projects. Depending on the student interest and background, thesis projects can address either a basic science or appliedclinical problem.

Admission into the Kinesiology and Health Master of Science program is open to students who have obtained an undergraduate degree with a major program of study in health exercise and sport science kinesiology physical education or other areas in human movement sciences Students who have undergraduate degrees in other areas may be required to complete additional courses including Human Anatomy Human System Physiology Exercise Physiology and other Kinesiology and Health classes recommended by the advisor A minimum undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 and three letters of recommendation are required GRE scores are not required for admission or graduate assistantship consideration but can be submitted to enhance the applicationThe University of Wyomings institutional minimum acceptable TOEFL score is 540 76 iBT The minimum acceptable IELTS score is 6.5