Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BIOL 18500 - Human Machine


Regardless of one’s athletic ability, everyone can benefit from a better understanding of their bodies and how that translates into improved health, happiness and performance. Using the lens of training for individual sporting events, we will learn about topics relating to health and fitness such as human anatomy, energetics, training, nutrition, fatigue, and life-long health. By completing the course you will have an excellent understanding of the physiological and anatomical bases for human locomotion and health. You will also know how to increase human performance, whether your own, or others.

While you may be taking this course to learn about your body and how to improve your health or performance, it will also fulfill your Science general education requirement. With respect to scientific ways of knowing, students should “understand the role of observation and inference in investigations; how natural science theories are formed, tested, and validated; the limitations inherent to natural scientific inquiry; and the impact of science and mathematics upon intellectual history. Courses in this way of knowing foster scientific thinking; knowledge of the physical and natural world; and relativize humanity’s position within the universe.”

Cr. 3.