Gain knowledge and skill in the game of basketball.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of flag football.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of soccer.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of softball.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of volleyball.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of ice skating. Participation fee.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of ice hockey. Participation fee required.

This course focuses on the development of basic skills and techniques in a designated physical activity. Repeatable under different subtitles.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of badminton.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of bowling. Participation fee.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activities of fly fishing and trap shooting.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of golf. Participation fee.

A current Basic and Emergency Water Safety or Lifeguard Training certificate is required. Course trains instructor candidates to teach the American Red Cross Water Safety courses.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of swimming.

Gain knowledge and skill in the game of tennis.

American Red Cross skills and knowledge required for an individual to properly assume the responsibilities of a lifeguard at a swimming pool or a protected (non-surf) open water beach.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activities of hiking.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of cross-country skiing. Participation fee.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of cycling.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of downhill skiing. Participation fee.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of kayaking. Participation fee.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activities of orienteering.

Students will participate in high and low level rope adventure activities.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of scuba diving. Participation fee.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of self defense.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of technical climbing.

Prerequisite: SES 132. Designed to provide students with increased challenges on the UNC adventure course. The course will culminate in a field trip in the mountains.

Gain knowledge and skill in the activity of geocaching.

This course is designed so that each student will develop basic skills and techniques in simplified Tai Chi.

Use of a variety of physical activities to control stress.

Improve personal skills and fitness through conditioning activities.

Improve personal skills and fitness through aquacize activities.

Improve personal skills and fitness through exercise and weight control activities.

Improve personal skills and fitness through fitness and conditioning activities.

Improve personal skills and fitness through jogging and walking.

Improve personal skills and fitness through swimming activities.

Improve personal skills and fitness through weight training activities.

Majors only. Prerequisite EDFE 110. Co-requisite SES 266. Practical experience for those wishing to explore a career in teaching. Placement in most public or private schools, agencies, preschool through high school. Experience is to coordinate practice with theory. S/U graded. Repeatable, no limitations.

Gain knowledge and skill in social dance. Includes traditional dance steps: polka, foxtrot, waltz, two-step; Latin American Rhythms: Cha-Cha, Rhumba, Tango; country swing and swing, social etiquette.

This course is an introduction to the clinical athletic training program for first year students interested in the field of athletic training.

Prerequisite: SES 220. Majors and minors only. Motor skill acquisition, advanced techniques, and knowledge appropriate for the successful participation and instruction in strength training activities and conditioning.

Majors and minors only. To teach the rules, training principles, techniques, movement skills, and analyses of the sport of track and field to professional preparation candidates completing a physical education major.

Majors and minors only. Focus on participation and analyses of traditional, social, American folk and square, and popular dance forms appropriate for upper elementary and secondary physical education.

Majors and minors only. Exploration, participation, and analysis of broadbased variety of physical activities that promote an optimal childhood development of movement foundations.

(3 lecture, 2 laboratory) Study of the anatomical bases of human movement. Laboratory provides application of principles. (LAC, gtP)

Learn the theory and application of outdoor leadership. Topics include program design, risk management principles, trip planning, outdoor living skills, leadership considerations, teaching methodology, and facilitation and debriefing principles.

Provide advanced and additional topics relative to first aid, i.e., increase proficiency skills, update CPR knowledge, increase knowledge in preventive and causative factors of injury and illness.

Designed for outdoor education and recreation leaders implementing mountain biking into outdoor programs. The course covers technical skills, instructional methodology, leadership issues, and environmentally sound riding ethics.

Concurrent enrollment in SES 238. Designed to develop outdoor education and recreation leaders’ skills and knowledge of teaching and leading backcountry skiing. Including classic touring, telemarking, backcountry skills and avalanche awareness.

Develop students' knowledge and techniques for teaching and managing technical rock climbing activities, focusing on top-rope climbing. Topics include climbing and repelling skills, anchors, site management, equipment, and safety.

Introduces outdoor education and recreation leaders to technical skills, leadership concepts, and instructional methodologies of paddle sports. Emphasis is on minimum impact paddling skills for lake and river travel.

Concurrent enrollment in SES 235. Develop knowledge and techniques for teaching and leading winter camping and backcountry travel activities. Topics include avalanche awareness, and fundamental camping and travel techniques for winter environments.

Majors and minors only. Facilitates enhanced performance, analysis, and tactical understanding of invasion games and field run/score games (e.g., basketball, soccer, team handball, football, speedball, ultimate frisbee, hockey, softball, cricket, and modified kickball).

Majors and minors only. Facilitates enhanced performance, analysis, and tactical understanding of net/wall games and target games (e.g., tennis, volleyball, badminton, golf, shuffleboard, boccie, disc golf).

Majors only. Designed to provide physical education majors with activities and teaching strategies necessary for integrating and implementing outdoor and adventure activities into a school program.

Prerequisites: 2.5 overall GPA, and 2.7 major GPA. Co-requisite or Prerequisite: EDFE 110. Co-requisite: SES 170. Majors and minors only. Focus on historical and current issues and philosophical perspectives of physical education, sport, and fitness. Implications for today’s physical education programs will be identified and discussed.

Prerequisites: SES 220. Emphasis on prevention of and care for injury to athletic populations.  Includes an overview of injury pathology and diagnosis, initial care, and long-term management concepts related to common pathologies.

Prerequisite: SES 220 and 2.8 overall GPA required. Concurrent Prerequisite: PHYS 220, BIO 110, FND 210, and BIO 245 or BIO 341. All Prerequisite and Concurrent Prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher (C- is not acceptable). Final course component of the admission process for the Athletic Training major. An introduction to the profession of Athletic Training, and sport-related injury prevention, diagnosis, care, and management concepts.

Majors only. Management, marketing, risk management and legal strategies as related to the exercise and fitness industry. Students observe, practice and analyze management, marketing and legal strategies.

Provides philosophical and practical base for working in youth development programs. Focus on programs that serve youth through physical activity, with special emphasis on goals of personal and social responsibility.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive baseball and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of baseball officiating.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive basketball and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of basketball officiating.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching football and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of football officiating.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive tennis and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of tennis officiating.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive track and field and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of track and field officiating.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive soccer and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of soccer officiating.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive softball and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of softball officiating.

Current WSI. Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive swimming and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of swimming officiating.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive volleyball and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of volleyball officiating.

Prerequisite: SES 220. Investigate basic concepts in the physiological components of human movement.

Study of the neuropsychological components of motor behavior, with an emphasis on movement problems. Laboratory provides application of concepts.

(2 lecture, 2 laboratory) Prerequisite: SES 322. Application of the physiological principles of human movement as they relate to exercise training, training for sport performance, sport nutrition, and ergogenic aids.

Study techniques and strategies of coaching competitive wrestling and obtain background and understanding of rules and techniques of wrestling officiating.

(2 lecture, 2 laboratory) Prerequisites: SES 220 and 3 Math credits or equivalent. Application of mechanical principles in the study of human movement. Laboratory provides application of concepts.

An introduction to the theories, subject matter and latest empirical research concerning the cognitive processes and emotional states that regulate and influence performance in sports, exercise and other physical activities.

This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles, philosophies and theories associated with effective athletic coaching.

Prerequisite: 2.5 overall GPA and 2.7 major GPA required. Majors and Minors only. This course is designed to assist students in acquiring methods and techniques for teaching diverse populations in traditional and alternative physical activity settings.

(3 lecture, 3 laboratory) Prerequisites: SES 240 or SES 241 and SES 266. Prerequisite: EDFE 110 and 2.5 overall GPA and 2.7 major GPA required. Laboratory required. Majors and minors only. Introductory course in sequence of professional teaching skills courses. Emphasis on identifying and developing beginning teaching skills necessary for effective instruction in physical education. Laboratory provides application of principles.

Prerequisites: SES 220, SES 340, EDFE 120 and 2.5 overall GPA and 2.7 major GPA required. Majors and minors only. Facilitates future teacher’s knowledge, skills appreciation and confidence needed to lead school-aged children in the development of active healthy lives.

Prerequisites: SES 220 or equivalent. Emphasis on prevention of injury to the athlete. Includes an overview of mechanisms, initial care, reconditioning and basic wrapping and taping techniques of sports injuries and organization of preventive programs.

Prerequisite: Admission to athletic training clinical program required. Clinical competencies and proficiencies will be evaluated through application opportunities provided in practical settings. Focus will be on development of entry level Athletic Training skills.

Prerequisites: Admission to the clinical athletic training program and successful completion of SES 381 with a grade of "C" or better (C- is not acceptable). Clinical competencies and proficiencies will be evaluated through application opportunities provided in practical settings. Content focus on fabrication and application of protective padding and equipment.

Prerequisites: Admission to the clinical athletic training program and successful completion of SES 382 with a grade of "C" or better (C- is not acceptable). Clinical competencies and proficiencies will be evaluated through application opportunities provided in practical settings. Focus will be on advanced general medical and orthopedic evaluation skills.

Consent of instructor. Put into practice the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom. Assume responsibilities in administration supervision and evaluation in physical education and athletic settings. S/U graded. Repeatable, may be taken two times.

(3 lecture, 1 laboratory) Designed to provide outdoor practitioners with the knowledge needed to deal with emergencies in remote settings. 80-hour curriculum. Successful completion provides Wilderness First Responder certification.

Prerequisite: EDFE 110 or EDFE 120 or EDFE 125. Study of the basic movement principles, movement activities and integration concepts appropriate for elementary children.

Prerequisites: SES 322 and SES 324 or equivalent. This course will prepare individuals to design and conduct exercise intervention programs for cancer patients. The physiological alterations from cancer therapy and the exercise effects will be presented.

A variety of special topics related to issues associated with the sport and exercise science field of study. Repeatable, under different subtitles.

Prerequisite: SES 322 or equivalent. Majors only. Juniors or above. Basic electrocardiography and ECG interpretation will be studied. Emphasis is on interpretation of resting and exercise ECG's, monitoring procedures, interpretation of abnormalities and drugs that may affect exercise.

Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Prerequisite: SES 132. Procedures, techniques, and responsibilities for challenge course supervision, including operational guidelines and processes, maintenance and general inspection, equipment, safety procedures, and rescue.

Application of sociological concepts and theories to examine current practices, problems and issues in physical activity, exercise and sport.

An introduction to psychological factors influencing coaching effectiveness. Topics include information and strategies dealing with motivation, communication, mental rehearsal, psychological skills training, and stress management.

(3 lecture, 3 laboratory) Prerequisites: EDFE 120, SES 210, SES 323, SES 340 and 2.5 overall GPA and 2.7 major GPA required. Laboratory required. Majors and minors only. Course is the second in sequence of professional teaching courses in physical education. Designed to develop skills and knowledge related to elementary physical education. Laboratory provides application of principles.

(3 Lecture, 3 Laboratory) Prerequisite: SES 340, EDFE 120 and 2.5 overall GPA and 2.7 major GPA required. Co-requisite: SES 440. Majors and minors only. Conceptual and practical understanding of alternative and traditional assessment of student learning in school physical education. Emphasis will be on formal and informal assessment and technological strategies that enhance learning.

(3 lecture, 3 laboratory) Prerequisite: EDFE 120, SES 440 and 2.5 overall GPA and 2.7 major GPA required. Laboratory required. Majors and minors only. Provides preservice physical education teachers with theoretical knowledge and practical experiences required to successfully teach secondary physical education. Laboratory provides application of principles.

Prerequisite: SES 340, EDFE 120 and 2.5 overall GPA and 2.7 major GPA required. Majors only. This course focuses on health education instructional, management, and assessment techniques in school settings with an emphasis on national and state level health education standards.

Juniors or above. This course is designed to introduce the student to the legal and administrative principles involved in physical education teaching and coaching and working in recreational settings.

Prerequisites: Seniors or above or consent of instructor. This course introduces the terminology, concepts and principles of sport marketing as well as how these concepts are applied in sport delivery organizations.

Prerequisites: SES 220, SES 322, SES 331. Study concepts, procedures, techniques, and assessments used in strength and conditioning in athletics. Students will develop suitable strength and conditioning programs based on findings of case studies performed on athletes.

Prerequisites: Admission to the clinical athletic training program and successful completion of SES 383 with a grade of "C" or better (C- is not acceptable). Clinical competencies and proficiencies will be evaluated through application opportunities provided in practical settings. Content focus on advanced applicatin of therapeutic modalities and therapeutic exercise.

Prerequisites: Admission to the clinical athletic training program and successful completion of SES 481 with a grade of "C" or better (C- is not acceptable). Clinical competencies and proficiencies will be evaluated through application opportunities provided in practical settings. Content focus on administrative concepts and the creation of an Athletic Training seminar.

(4 lecture, 2 laboratory) Laboratory required. Prerequisite: Admission to the Athletic Training Clinical Program required and consent of instructor. Majors only. Knowledge and practical applications that effectively recognize and evaluate the acute, chronic and life threatening injuries. Includes history, inspection, palpation, functional testing and special evaluation techniques.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Athletic Training Clinical Program required and consent of instructor. Majors only. Neurophysiological basis, techniques and skills utilized in the prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries. Includes indications, contra-indications, applications of therapeutic exercise, protective aids and return to participation parameters.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Athletic Training Clinical Program required and consent of instructor. Majors only. Introduction and practical application of theory, basis, and uses of the following modalities: cold, heat, hydrotherapy, muscle stimulation, compression, biofeedback, ultrasound, massage and other modalities utilized in sports injury.

Admission to Clinical Athletic Training Program required and consent of instructor. Majors only. Organization and administration of athletic training programs. Topics include management strategies, human resource, financial, facility and information management, legal and ethical considerations, and other current topics.

Prerequisite: Admission into clinical athletic training program. Clinical proficiencies, introductory skills, and evaluation techniques in the area of medical injury, illness and disabilities will be taught. Basic clinical competencies and skills will be tested and evaluated.

(2 lecture, 2 laboratory) Prerequisites: SES 220, SES 322, SES 324, and SES 331. Majors only. Juniors or above. Application of fitness assessments and the subsequent development, organization, and implementation of exercise programs for healthy individuals and individuals with controlled diseases.

Prerequisites: SES 490, completion of SES prefix courses with a GPA of 2.7; current CPR certification and consent of the Internship Director. Supervised experience in fitness and exercise programs or cardiac rehabilitation. S/U graded. Repeatable, maximum of 12 credits.

Prerequisite: SES 232 or equivalent. Consent of instructor. A field base, advanced course in wilderness-based teaching and leadership. Students develop skills and knowledge in group development and safe leadership of ethical and effective wilderness travel. Repeatable, maximum of twelve hours.

Consent of instructor. Application of physiological principles, assessment techniques, and exercise prescription in a community setting. Students will gain experience in the use and interpretation of fitness laboratory and field tests. Repeatable, maximum of six credits.