College of Education and Human Development

School of Kinesiology

Emphasis: Physical activity and health promotion

Physical activity and health is an emerging discipline with the goal of promoting health and preventing chronic diseases through physical activity promotion in various populations. The emphasis area in physical activity and health is intended to provide students with advanced study in physical activity and health promotion and disease prevention, as well as study designs from an epidemiological approach.

The emphasis area will cover a variety of courses, which provide a solid foundation sufficient to understand and conduct research in this field. Courses will include:

  • Physical activity epidemiology
  • Exercise physiology
  • Exercise psychology
  • Movement science
  • Statistics

Research efforts in this area are directed at validating the emerging technologies in assessing physical activity, effects of emerging technologies (i.e., active video games, virtual reality) on individuals’ health outcomes (i.e., cardiorespiratory fitness, motor skills) and perception/action (i.e., motion sickness), and the associations between physical activity and various outcomes (i.e., cognitive functions, biomarkers) of aging and cancer.

How to apply

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Juergen Konczak Juergen Konczak

  • Professor, Biomechanics and Neuromotor Control; Director of Graduate Studies (DGS)
  • 612-624-4370
  • jkonczak@umn.edu

Director, Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory Director, Center for Clinical Movement Science Faculty, Center for Cognitive Sciences Faculty, Graduate Program in Neuroscience Adjunct Professor of Neurology Director, Human Sensorimotor Control…

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