KINE 2500 - Sport Psychology

5 credit hours
Formerly - SPEX 2510

Designed to introduce students to the basic concepts and psychological knowledge for organized sport, athletic training, and physical activity. The content of the course will be divided into the following three units: (a) learning about sport and exercise participants (i.e., personality, talent development, motivation, aggression); (b) enhancing performance with psychological skills training (i.e., arousal/stress/anxiety regulation, imagery, goal setting, self-confidence building) and enhancing psychological well-being (i.e., decreasing unhealthy and addictive behaviors, burnout, overtraining, and injury); and (c) understanding sport and exercise environments and facilitating psychological growth & development (i.e., competition and cooperation, feedback/reinforcement, group/team dynamics, character development & good sporting behavior). Students will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge in selected areas within sports psychology through class discussions and assignments.