Course Directory

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Health Education

Focuses on wellness and health promotion. Emphasizes healthy behaviors in each of the five Dimensions of Health (mental, physical, social, emotional, environmental). Stresses skills and application of health knowledge for optimum wellness and disease prevention. Requirement for all students.

Child Care Health Advocate

Ensuring the health and safety of children is a fundamental component of an early childhood program. This course emphasizes the promotion of the health and safety of children, including recognizing and correcting health and safety problems. This course focuses on best practices in health safety and nutrition for young children.

Walking For Fitness

Develop cardiorespiratory endurance through vigorous walking within individual target heart rate guidelines. Covers physical fitness principles, heart risk factors, body composition, and nutrition.

Relaxation Skills

Provides experience and learning in psychophysiological regulation skills, which may significantly enhance fitness and wellness. Skeletal and visceral muscle relaxation, proper breathing technique, and flexibility are the major foci for the course. Students will learn these skills through the exercise provided in the methodologies of Diaphragmatic breathing, Meditation Progressive Relaxation, Yoga, Pilates, and Autogenic Training. Students will learn feedback and assessment measures using Biofeedback Tools.

Intro To Bicycling

Emphasizes proper fit of bike to rider, skills, and techniques of riding, basic bike maintenance, and aerobic fitness. Bicycles provided, helmet required. Each semester.

Beginning Swimming

For students who cannot swim one length of the pool. Consists of drown-proofing and elementary back, breast, and freestyle strokes.

Fitnes thr Pilates & Stab Ball

Students have the opportunity to increase their fitness level through strengthening their core muscles and improving their lean body mass. The course enables students to learn exercises that they can perform throughout their life with no or minimum,need of equipment.

Aqua Aerobics

Achieves various aspects of physical fitness in a water medium.

Badminton

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Bowling

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Golf

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Racquetball Men

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Racquetball Women

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Beginning Tennis

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Canoeing

Explores the skills of the paddling strokes and involves the nomenclature of modern canoes and equipment. Includes rescue techniques and how to plan a river trip.

Basketball Men

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Basketball Women

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Volleyball Men

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Volleyball Women

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Step Aerobics Challenge

Expands the student's understanding of overall fitness. Students utilize step benches to obtain cardiovascular conditioning and hand weights to strengthen muscles and improve endurance. Each semester.

Adapted Phy Ed

Modified or corrective physical education course for those who by reason of illness or disability are unable to participate in the more vigorous forms of physical education activities. On demand.

Phys Fit And Cond

Enables students to develop a fitness and conditioning program to fit their individual needs through knowledge gained in areas such as nutrition, use of conditioning equipment, weight control, and fitness tests.

Phys Fit Thru Stren Trng

Covers all basic weight lifting techniques and modern principles for developing and improving an aerobic fitness for both male and female students.

Camp Outdoor Rec

Offers practical experience in the basic skills necessary for a successful camping excursion following conservation practices and techniques that retain the beauty of the wilderness ecosystems.

Pers Hlth Promo & Behav Mgmt

This course will direct students to assess their personal wellness in each of the seven dimensions. The content will explore variables contributing to personal excellence and wellness and completion of a behavioral project.

Phys Ed Elem Major

Required of all students majoring in elementary education. Emphasizes modern physical education skills and activities of the elementary child. Each semester.

Basic/Emerg Water Safety

Students must demonstrate advanced swimming skills. Designed for participants to become familiar with the hazards of water activities, to prevent accidents, and to respond effectively if an accident does occur. Successful completion of the course leads to Red Cross Certification.

Interm Swimming

Multi-stroke refinement, drown-proofing, and physical conditioning through swimming. Prerequisite: Students should be able to swim one length of the pool.

Intro Ele Health Concept

Introduces elementary education majors to basic health concepts and issues which elementary students face and are important for developing an appropriate understanding of health education today. Fall, annually.

Interm Tennis

Emphasizes fundamental techniques, strategy, and rules.

Nutrition for Healthy Living

Teaches about the different food groups and their roles in the human body, the type of chemical reactions during metabolism, the way the body makes and stores energy, and eating habits role in weight control.

Special Topics

C P R

Required for the Athletic Coaching Program. Follows the recommendations and guidelines of the American Red Cross. Students earn an American Red Cross CPR Certificate upon successful completion of the course.

First Aid Safety

Explores responsibilities and duties of the teacher in the development and teaching of programs in first aid and safety that are related to the student's school and community. Includes the American Red Cross Standard First Aid Course.

Tch Hlth & Wellness Elem Sch

Required of all students majoring in elementary education. This class will focus on strategies for promoting the health of children both in and outside the educational setting. Students will learn the importance of both promoting a healthy lifestyle," within the young and the importance of advocating for a healthy environment in which all children and adults may flourish. Students will plan learning activities that will enhance the health knowledge, skills, attitudes and experience of young children. Included are labs and field experiences in an elementary school setting. Each semester.

Lifeguard Training

Successful completion leads to Red Cross Certification. Prerequisite: Swim 500 yards continuously, using four different strokes, dive to a depth of nine feet, and bring up a 10-pound object, and tread water for one minute.

Elem Health Curriculum

Designed for the elementary education major who may eventually work in a classroom setting. Prepares potential teachers to: (a) teach health education in a knowledgeable and effective manner, (b) demonstrate approaches for integrating health instruction with other topics, and (c) familiarize the elementary major with current health curricula. Course offered on demand.

Motor Learning & Development

Provides understanding of motor development and motor learning and how motor activities enhance the total development of young children. Emphasizes the design and implementation of open-ended, developmentally appropriate movement activities to stimulate problem solving and to be the cornerstone of an integrated curriculum. Additional focus on assessment of motor development and motor learning environments. Must be taken concurrently with ECH 320, 322, 323, 325, and 413. Prerequisites: ED 121. Each semester.

Hiv/Aids Education

Experience-based course covers both the facts and the emotional issues involved in teaching about HIV infection. Psychosocial issues covered by the course include values, attitudes, and beliefs and their effects on teaching and learning about HIV, drugs and drug use, and sex and sexuality. Emphasizes helping students develop the skills needed to make AIDS presentations with a non-judgmental perspective and sensitivity to the cultural diversity in their communities. Upon successful completion ofthe course, students are Red Cross certified to present facts, answer questions, and identify resources for people who want more information on HIV infection, including AIDS. Prerequisite: HPE 111 or permission of the instructor. Course offered on de|