The study of human movement is presented from an integrated perspective influenced by the fields of motor learning, experimental psychology, neuropsychology, kinesiology, biomechanics, and human factors engineering. The level of presentation is directed toward upperclass undergraduate and graduate students in physical education and others pursuing an analytical understanding of human movement. Human movement here includes how the human organism learns to move, the underlying factors leading to the structure of movement, how our movements adapt to simple and complex environmental situations, and how we might proceed in our quest for understanding communication through a multidimensional technique in the analysis of human movement. A structural analysis of human movement is explored as one means of determining the characteristics of movement under differing environmental, morphologic, and biomechanical conditions. The principles of organization of planned, purposeful human movement are developed through an understanding of patterns of human movement, the factors influencing skilled motoric adaption to our environment, and the neuromuscular control processes involved. Acquisition and performance are also discussed. Classification and description of human movement methods and tools of analysis are introduced. A bibliography is appended. (MM)