An Activity-Based Approach for Teaching Critical Scientific Concepts

运动与运动科学系（EMS）正在为寻求健康科学职业的学生提供培训。EMS项目与传统的培训方法不同，它的指导超出了提供基础科学教育的范围。EMS的学生被教导体育活动和生活方式在促进健康和预防疾病方面的重要性，这一理念非常成功。该系设有220个专业，教授人体解剖学和生理学的所有校园课程，并为普通科学课程做出了很大贡献。满足这些责任带来的入学压力是一项具有挑战性的任务。此外，部门发展计划要求增加和改进主要课程；如果没有额外的实验室资源，这些步骤是不可能的。该项目正在改善EMS教学实验室环境，并允许开发使用人体运动模型的新生理学序列。解剖学的计算机教学，主要核心课程的实验室经验的重新设计，以及与地区中学和执业医生的持续合作的扩大正在变得更加可行。这些变化使EMS能够在丰富课程的同时为健康科学预科学生提供优秀的培训，使学生能够独立工作，有效沟通，并对体育活动在疾病治疗和预防中的价值具有高度的敏感性。＊

The Department of Exercise and Movement Science (EMS) is providing training to students seeking careers in health-science professions. The EMS program differs from the traditional approach to such training in that instruction goes beyond providing a basic science education. EMS students are taught the importance of physical activity and lifestyle in health promotion and disease prevention, a philosophy that has been very successful. The department has 220 majors, teaches all campus courses in human anatomy and physiology, and contributes heavily to the general science curriculum. The task of meeting the enrollment pressure created by these responsibilities is challenging. Moreover, the departmental developmental plan calls for major curricular additions and improvements; steps that are impossible without additional laboratory resources. This project is improving the EMS teaching laboratory environment and permitting the development of a new physiology sequence that uses human exercise models. Computer instruction in anatomy, redesign of the laboratory experiences in major core courses, and expansion of on-going collaborations with both area secondary schools and practicing physicians are becoming more viable. These changes are allowing EMS to provide excellent training to pre-health science students while enriching the curriculum so that students can work independently, communicate effectively, and have a heightened degree of sensitivity toward the value of physical activity in disease treatment and prevention. *