Major Requirements

The department offers two majors: the Exercise and Sports Science major and the Physical Education major.   

Exercise and Sports Science Major Requirements

The exercise and sports science major includes a core of courses that allows the students to shape the rest of the major to meet personal goals.

• A 32 credit core of which 28 credits are to be chosen from the professional health and physical education curriculums offered at Hamline or consortium colleges, plus four credits in statistics
• An area of concentration (at least 20 credits) composed of a regularly-offered major/minor or cluster of courses which can be linked to the core. (These courses count toward the breadth of study requirement.)
• A four-credit internship
• PHED 5950 - Senior Seminar

Physical Education Major Requirements
(for teacher licensure recommendation)

The Minnesota Department of Education licenses physical education teachers for grades K-12. In order to be recommended for licensure, Hamline students must complete:

The following courses:

1. PHED 1400 - Fundamental Concepts of Physical Education
2. PHED 1540 - Individual Activities
3. PHED 1550 - Rhythms
4. PHED 1570 - Lifetime Sports
5. PHED 1650 - Team Sports
6. PHED 3350 - Teaching Water Safety Instruction (W.S.I.) Aquatics
7. PHED 5620 - Adaptive/Developmental Physical Education
8. PHED 5640 - Physiology of Exercise
9. PHED 5850 - Physical Education in the Elementary School
10. PHED 5910 - Scientific Bases of Physical Education
11. PHED 5920 - Programming and Evaluation in Physical Education
12. PHED 5940 - Management of Physical Education and Athletics
13. BIOL 1120 - Biology of Human Function
14. EXSS 335 Kinesiology/Biomechanics
    (taken at the College of St. Catherine)
15. HLTH 1170 - Personal and Community Health
16. HLTH 1520 - First Aid and Personal Safety
17. HLTH 3630 - Prevention and Management of Athletic Injuries
18. PSY 1330 - General Psychology
19. One course chosen from:
    1. ANTH 1160 - Introduction to Anthropology
    2. SOC 1110 - Introduction to Sociological Thinking
20. One course chosen from:
    1. CHEM 1100 - Chem-Energetics
    2. CHEM 1130 - General Chemistry I
    3. PHYS 1130 - Physics for Poets
    4. PHYS 1150 - Algebra-based Physics I
21. Students must also complete the education department courses required for a Minnesota teaching license (see Education)

Pre physical therapy and pre-occupational therapy at Hamline.
Students with career goals involving physical or occupational therapy should consult with the Advisor for these programs soon after they enter Hamline.

Postgraduate Opportunities

There are a variety of opportunities for majors in physical education. Students may prepare for careers as teachers, coaches and athletic trainers, as well as for work in a variety of settings outside of education. Recent graduates with teacher certification are successfully employed in teaching/coaching positions in elementary schools to high schools and colleges.

Our exercise and sports science major prepares students to work in cardiac rehabilitation, biomechanical research, physical therapy, and in various phases of the fitness industry.

This information was taken from the 2008-2009 Undergraduate Bulletin. Requirements from other versions of the Bulletin can be found under archives on the Course Catalogs web site.