This exciting new text is designed for the newly developing curriculum emerging in the field of Physical Education/Exercise Science. Today, there is a renewed interest and dedication to the scientific study of human movement. This is reflected in the trend for physical education programs to change their names to departments of Kinesiology, Exercise and Sport Sciences, Human Movement, etc. This text captures this shift in the field of physical education by covering each of the sub-disciplines related to the study of human movement at an introductory level.