Human Performance Graduate Certificate

The Human Performance Graduate Certificate Program at University of the Cumberlands is a 12-credit-hour graduate-level online certificate designed to prepare students to master essential methodologies and applications in areas of fitness, exercise, and sport. If you want to learn human performance fundamentals such as physical and performance assessment, prescribing activity and behaviors to enhance physical fitness, and overall health and performance concepts to achieve desired outcomes with various populations, take advantage of the flexibility of earning your Human Performance Graduate Certificate online.

Human Performance Certificate Goals

1. Address fundamental and diverse nutritional education and practices in the framework of allied health professionals working with various populations of active individuals.
2. Integrate knowledge and practice of various factors that affect human performance including regulatory mechanisms, adaptations, and changes because of physical activity.
3. Implement knowledge and competence related to exercise testing protocols and integrate this to the prescription of exercise programs for healthy and diseased populations.
4. Improve skills to develop holistic training and conditioning programs that include strength, endurance, power, and overall performance through a variety of methods in sport, fitness, and wellness.