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 broad based variety of physical activities that promote an optimal childhood development of movement foundations.
Study of the anatomical bases of human movement. Laboratory provides application of principles.
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. Participation fee required.
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, bocce, 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. Participation fee required.
Prerequisites: 2.5 overall GPA, and 2.7 major GPA. Co-requisite: EDFE 110, EDFE 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.
This class is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the sport industry. A wide variety of topics including: law, management, economics, and marketing areas are covered.
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.