The focus is human physical activity. The basis of the philosophy is that this activity is best understood when studied in a multidimensional, scholarly manner. By clearly defining the framework for departmental operation it has been possible to conceptualize and implement a series of innovations insofar as individual courses, course sequences and faculty groupings are concerned. In this early period the teaching of sports skills to students was eliminated. If we pursued a policy of offering skills in every area in which a kinesiologist might find themselves working the list would be beyond the capability of the department to offer.
Sport is only one form of movement studied by kinesiologists.
That the department was successful in moving into the scientific study of human movement was demonstrated when the members of the Faculty of Science unanimously endorsed the designation Bachelor of Science for its undergraduate degree. Simultaneously every encouragement and assistance was given to faculty members to develop their individual research capabilities and to begin exploring potential for interdepartmental activity on campus. Phase III included the inauguration of study at the doctoral level, the establishment of significant relationships with other departments on this campus and, investigation of the possibilities for inter-university cooperation and its implementation where feasible. A prime feature of phase III was the concerted effort to raise the level of funded research by departmental faculty. These included work physiology, biomechanics, psychmotor behaviour and sociology.