Biomechanics Curriculum: Its Content and Relevance to Movement Sciences

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While the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) has outlined a number of learning outcomes for undergraduate biomechanics, there are a number of factors that can influence the curriculum in such courses. These factors create a situation that indeed can influence students and their attitude towards these classes. Undergraduate students generally avoid the required biomechanics course for a number of reasons, some of which deal with the methods used to teach those classes. In most situations, we teach “applied physics” rather than biomechanics and this emphasis on the physics of movement may have little interest to our students. The emphasis on the mechanics of movement is a concern that must be addressed to create interest in undergraduate biomechanics.