There are four academic knowledge goals that compose the bedrock of graduate education in the Division of Kinesiology and Health.

• Acquiring Knowledge of Field

We attempt to teach with depth in the student's field of interest, but always in the context of the larger existing body of knowledge (breadth).

• Applying Knowledge

We attempt to help our students apply their knowledge to appropriate practical settings (for example, in research laboratories, teaching laboratories, schools, work sites, health centers, etc.).

• Discovering Knowledge

We attempt to introduce our students to the research and scholarship process, including teaching such cognitive skills as theory testing, synthesizing literature, asking significant research questions, designing studies, and analyzing data.

• Displaying Imaginative Knowledge

We attempt to impart to our students the lifelong spirit of learning that is captured through imagining alternative ideas and solutions - the very basis of the search for truth as it is sustained by the community of scholars - that will prepare our graduates to succeed in their professional careers.? As the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once observed, imagination is contagious.? Whitehead went on to say that imagination cannot be weighed or measured; in graduate education it can only be exhibited by a faculty that is lit up with imagination.? As much as we can, we try to exhibit this learning with imagination so as to infect our own students with the same light.? Any assessment of the impact of such an influence cannot be made until well into our graduate students' careers.? Nonetheless, we believe that when our students leave us they are a carrier of this positive contagion.