This class offers an overview of the skeletal and muscular anatomy and a study of the mechanical principles of movement as related to efficient performance in aquatics, dance, and sports. This is a 3-unit lecture course taught by Senior Lecturer Betsy Weeks. The answers to these questions and others involving efficiency in human performance can be found by taking this introductory course. Course content includes several major topics. Next one needs to understand the basics of the skeletal, joint and muscular systems.
Reference is made to objects moving on land, in the air and in the water.
In addition to readings in the text, the course includes several short assignments and a term project involving a joint, muscle, and mechanical analysis of a sport of choice. Also included are a mid-term and a final exam. The course has been taken mainly by Human Biology majors with an area of concentration pertaining to movement, sports medicine, physical therapy and the like. It is, however, open to anyone, who regardless of major, is interested in the basic understanding of how to improve human movement.