Course Competencies

What will you learn?

1. How a computer works, it's component parts, viruses

2. How to use University library resources (particularly the OVID database)

3. How to use e-mail

4. How the Internet works, and how to retrieve relevant information in the exercise sciences

5.The basics about word processing (creating documents, formatting documents, integrating tabular, graphic, and spreadsheet information)

6. The basics about spreadsheets (creating worksheets, transforming input data into graphs, creating new variables from existing variables, statistical evaluation)

7. The basics about graphics/presentations (creating a presentation, integrating tabular and graphic output, creating a slide show)

8. How to create your own homepage on the Internet

9. How exercise science labs use computers in research

10. How to manipulate data using statistical software

11. Software availability in the exercise sciences (fitness, nutrition, anatomy, biomechanics, motor control, biochemistry)

DID YOU KNOW . . .

Left. Drs. Jonas Bergstrom and Eric Hultman, two Swedish physicians, pioneered the needle biopsy technique. Famous exercise physiologist Bengt Saltin of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Laboratory takes a muscle biopsy of the gastrocnemius muscle in a long distance runner. Photo courtesy of Dr. Edward Coyle. From: McArdle, W.D. et al. Exercise Physiology. 4th edition. Williams & Wilkins Publishers. Baltimore, 1996.

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