RIT’s bachelor’s degree in exercise science focuses on how people can recover from the unhealthy effects of chronic lifestyle diseases and on training athletes to expand their performance. Exercise science is a discipline that studies movement and the bodies responses and adaptations. The goal of exercise science is to broaden our understanding of the connections and benefits between fitness, exercise, nutrition, and health. It’s the scientific approach to understanding how exercise impacts the human body. In RIT’s exercise science major you will learn to scientifically address issues of health and fitness as well as human performance as part of a rapidly growing field. Two tracks–clinical or athletic–enable you to select courses that focus on helping people recover from the unhealthy effects of a sedentary lifestyle or that focus on training athletes to extend and expand their capacity for exceptional human performance. RIT’s exercise science major offers a challenging selection of exercise science courses that prepare you to understand the role exercise plays in both the enhancement of health and fitness as well as the improvement of athletic performance. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of exercise, human movement, body systems, and the physiological concepts that are part of the human body’s physical response to exercise. The exercise science major offers a comprehensive curriculum that provides a solid foundation in exercise science as well as skills in leadership, communication, and problem solving.