Applied Physiology and Wellness

www.smu.edu/apsm

Professor Lynn Romejko Jacobs, Department Chair

Professors: Lynn Romejko Jacobs, Peter Weyand
Associate Professor: Scott L. Davis
Assistant Professor: Sushmita Purkayastha
Clinical Associate Professor: Megan Murphy
Clinical Assistant Professors: Gashaw Abeza, David Bertrand, Derek Marr
Professors of Practice: Susan Holland, Michael Stone
Senior Lecturers: Caitlin Anderson, Brian Fennig, Donna Gober
Lecturers: Peter Carlton, Piotr Chelstowski, Courtney Gedney, Ueline Newmon, Laura Robinson-Doyle, Kelyn Rola, Mark Rudich, Bradley Warren
Research Professor: Eric Bing

Department Information

The Department of Applied Physiology and Wellness offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. Its undergraduate programs include a major and four minors in applied physiology and sport management. Its graduate programs include a Master of Science in Health Promotion  Management, a Master of Science in Sport Management, and a Ph.D. in education with an emphasis in applied physiology. The department also offers personal responsibility and wellness (PRW) courses, two of which are required of all undergraduate students as part of the University Curriculum, and a large selection of sports and fitness activity courses available as electives. The undergraduate and graduate programs have access to the department’s laboratories, which include an integrated physiology laboratory, an applied physiology laboratory equipped with a data acquisition system, an environmental research chamber with teaching pods, and a cerebrovascular research lab.  The Locomotor Performance Laboratory specializes in terrestrial locomotion and in relating muscle function to metabolic energy expenditure and performance.

Doctor of Philosophy in Education. The Ph.D. in education is a schoolwide degree. Currently three areas of emphasis are available within this degree: teaching and learning, education policy and leadership, and applied physiology. For more information on this degree, students should see the description of the Ph.D. program at www.smu.edu/EducationPhD or in this catalog.

Programs

• Health Promotion Management, M.S.H.P.M.
• Sport Management, M.S.S.M.

Courses

• APSM 7103 - Doctoral Research Seminar
• APSM 7301 - Biomechanics Research Tutorial
• APSM 7302 - Physiology Research Tutorial

Health Promotion Management

• HPM 6301 - Health Promotion in the Workplace
• HPM 6302 - Epidemiology and Current Issues in Health
• HPM 6303 - Behavior Theory in Health Promotion
• HPM 6310 - Research Methods and Biostatistics
• HPM 6321 - Health Promotion Programming and Evaluation I
• HPM 6322 - Health Promotion Programming and Evaluation II
• HPM 6331 - Communication in Business and Health
• HPM 6332 - The U.S. Healthcare System
• HPM 6430 - Internship

• SPRT 6049 - Graduate Full-Time Status
• SPRT 6220 - Sport Organizational Design
• SPRT 6221 - Sports Law
• SPRT 6222 - Case Studies in Sports Law
• SPRT 6223 - Sports Sponsorship
• SPRT 6224 - Case Studies in Sports Sponsorship
• SPRT 6225 - Advanced Sport Communication
• SPRT 6226 - Research Design in Sport Management
• SPRT 6227 - Sports Facility Management
• SPRT 6228 - Ethics in Sport
• SPRT 6430 - Master of Science in Sport Management Internship