Our program incorporates research and technologies with an interdisciplinary liberal arts foundation.

Students who successfully complete the athletic training program learn to:

• Demonstrate professional, legal, ethical, social, and political responsibilities in the role of a certified athletic trainer.
• Communicate effectively with athletes, their families, colleagues, and other health care professionals while respecting cultural and ethnic differences.
• Employ critical thinking skills to recognize and define problems, analyze data, develop and implement solutions, and evaluate outcomes.
• Demonstrate accountability for actions and outcomes while fulfilling commitments as a certified athletic trainer.
• Implement safe and effective therapeutic interventions.

The Department of Athletic Training offers an undergraduate major in athletic training, a minor in coaching, and a minor in exercise science and fitness.