Leaders in Fitness and Sport
The School of Sport and Exercise Science (SES) has a long and distinguished history of preparing individuals to assume leadership roles in sport and physical activity settings.
SES is concerned with the many aspects of human movement and its application to sport management, physical activity and the quality of life. Students in SES focus on one of several areas of human movement, including physiological and biomechanical aspects of exercise, psychological and sociological aspects of physical activity, traditional and outdoor physical education, as well as the marketing and management of sport. Our degree programs prepare students to compete successfully for careers in the allied health industries, public school systems and sport management positions. Interested in physical education? UNC is Colorado's flagship institution for the preparation of physical education teachers.
Olympic Mettle
On an early Tuesday morning, Gunter 1150 looks like pretty much any other college classroom. A few posters hang on the walls. Students in jeans, sweats and athletic gear fill the desks for a required Physical Education class.
After a student presentation, the professor tells his students to get up and stretch before his lecture on the Paralympics. Then two things happen: He wheels over to a table at the front of the classroom, and he pulls out a bronze medal.
Meet Scott Douglas, known to his students as Dr. D. He’s program coordinator of UNC’s sports coaching program and teaches in the School of Sport and Exercise Science.
Moving to Address Childhood Obesity
In back of Megan Babkes Stellino’s Centennial home sits a series of yards stitched
together like the squares in a quilt, where her two children, Evan, 9, and Alex, 6,
have the rare freedom to play in a wide-open spot, unfettered by fences and surrounded
by neighborhood kids.
Those kids all romp together in their backyards. Right now, the hot game is a mix
of tag and hide and seek. Babkes Stellino calls it “beautiful.”
