Exercise Science (BS)

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Text on screen: Program Spotlight: Exercise Science (BS)

[Footage of Browning Hall fades into an interview shot.]

Text on screen: David Reddy, Director, Instructor, Exercise Science

David Reddy: It’s the science of exercise, the science of movement, the science of fitness, the science of health. We are housed in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, so you're going to get a foundational level of many different sciences.

[A blue filter covers footage of students working in various labs and text scrolls up from the bottom of the screen.]

Text on screen: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology

Biology, physics, chemistry and then anatomy and physiology. And so it is the undergraduate experience is going to take them on to graduate school or a professional career in and of itself.

[Another blue filter over student footage with text appearing from left to right.]

Text on screen: High-Impact Learning, Engaging Students with Hands-On Practices

[David Reddy demonstrates to students how to use various tools and techniques in the context of physical therapy and exercise training.]

In our labs, we do a lot of work with each other. So we'll assess movement, we'll assess health, we’ll be taking blood pressure, heart rates – there's a lot of high impact, hands-on experiences that are wonderful.

[The demonstrations end as another interview shot appears.]

Text on screen: Nysa G., Student

Nysa G.: My favorite part is the hands-on activities that we do.

[More footage of David Reddy working with students and teaching best practices.]

The exercises, getting to use your own body to kind of go through the movement to help me to better, like, learn things and apply it in real life.

Reddy: Another important feature being housed in the science department is that our students all do a unique senior thesis project.

[Another interview shot of David Reddy changes to footage of students giving presentations on posterboard and in front of an auditorium.]

They put together the study. They do the entire study over the course of a year, and then they write up a paper, they do a presentation, and it's really great to see.

Text on screen: Customized Education, Preparing Students for a Wide Variety of Careers

By the end of almost their first semester – if not, their first year — not only do we know everyone by name, we are beginning to customize what their four-year experience looks like.

[David Reddy continues speaking as texts pops up on screen.]

Text on screen: Job Placement, Internship Opportunities, Graduate School Preparation

So what part-time job might serve them best? Are they going to intern somewhere in particular? If you're going to graduate school, what does that look like? So I think that's from a coaching standpoint, a mentoring standpoint — that's vital.

Text on screen: Tony T.

Tony T.: The internship that I did within this program helped me a lot. Kind of exposes me to a variety of careers and a variety of paths that I could take. Once we tell them, you know, our purpose and our goals and they are willing to kind of shape our path to pursue that.

[The interview footage of Tony T. fades into a Webster Student athlete pitching a baseball.]

Text on screen: Athletics and Academics, Individualized Education for the Student Athlete

Reddy: A lot of our students, inevitably, are student athletes that they're also in athletics playing a variety of sports.

[Footage of Webster’s strength coach and athletic trainer interacting and engaging with student athletes]

Our strength coach, our athletic trainer, they work with the students, with their performance, with their injuries. But they're also adjuncts in the exercise science program. So it's great to see that, that they kind of see both the athletics angle and the academic angle.

Nysa: They make sure that we get what we need while we're here and that we can take things with us so that we can work while we're on the road.

[Footage of various Webster sports: women’s basketball, volleyball, men’s soccer and baseball.]

They work with us with exams, scheduling things. They're very understanding with that. So I've appreciated that.

[Various teachers work with students in Webster’s Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.]

I have a good relationship with my professors, which I know will benefit me in the future, and it already has.

[A close up of Nysa smiling at the camera slowly fades to blue.]

So I am happy that I chose Webster.

[Webster University logo animates on screen]

Text on screen: Webster University, webster.edu