运动机能学系的任务是创建，解释，传播和应用与运动，锻炼和人类职业有关的知识，其最终目标是提高人类健康，生产力和生活质量。运动机能学硕士专业范围包括生物力学，运动生理学，运动心理学，运动控制和行为，体育活动流行病学和职业科学。带有非论题选项的人体运动学硕士课程提供涵盖人体运动学领域和选修课广度的课程，并且可能包括最终项目。该学位支持对教练/教学（团队或个人），个人培训或健身指导的兴趣，或者可以补充物理疗法，运动训练或其他专职健康专业的实践，或学生的任何个人目的。
Exercise Psychology is the study of psychological responses and adaptations to acute and chronic physical activity. The graduate program at UW–Madison focuses on the psychobiological aspects of physical activity in both healthy and diseased populations. Research in the Exercise Psychology Laboratory has been generally concerned with quantifying the psychophysiological responses to exercise. Numerous behavioral methods have been used to determine affective and perceptual responses to exercise including the use of biofeedback, hypnosis, imagery, meditation, and traditional relaxation interventions such as autogenic training. More recently, the laboratory’s focus has been on the psychophysiological aspects of pain, fatigue, and perceived exertion during and following exercise. These studies are being conducted in both healthy participants and patients with chronic pain and fatigue and are aimed at understanding the psychophysiological mechanisms that underlie the perceptual experience. Neuroimaging experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are also being conducted to determine neural responses related to pain, fatigue, and exercise.