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Physical Education (PHYS-ED)

PHYS-ED 106      Badminton View Details
This course teaches the basic rules, skill techniques, terminology and strategy for badminton.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 125      Golf View Details
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 145      Social Dance View Details
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 149      Basketball And Team Handball View Details
This course teaches the basic rules, skill techniques, terminology and strategy for basketball and team handball.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 153      Volleyball View Details
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 158      Advanced Weight Training View Details
This course teaches free weight training exercises that are used within a well-balanced training program, and provides experience needed to design weight training programs.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 157      Weight Training View Details
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 159      Jogging View Details
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 174      Cross Training View Details
This course provides knowledge, skill and opportunity to improve primary sport/activity performance or overall fitness, through designing and participating in a variety of cross training physical activities.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 175      Personal Fitness View Details
This course is designed to expose students to facts about and experiences in dealing with motor, physical, physiological, psychological and nutritional aspects of the human being. Specific areas of study include hypokinetic disease, physical fitness, nutrition and wellness concepts.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHYS-ED 180      Beginning Swimming View Details
This course is designed to equip each student with basic water safety skills and knowledge in order to make them reasonably safe while in, on or about the water.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 181      Fitness Swimming View Details
This course is designed to challenge and encourage each student to develop an individualized fitness program based on personal goals. Lap swimming as well as water exercise will be incorporated in the class.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 189      Special Topics: Activity View Details
A course designed to deal with a special activity class which is not available in the regular course offerings. Activity class, instructors and prerequisites to be listed in the semester bulletin.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 206      First Aid And Safety View Details
Methods of administering first aid in case of accident or sudden illness; bandaging; resuscitation; and caring for wounds and injuries. Safety in schools will be stressed. (Elective).
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 207      Outdoor And Leisure Pursuits View Details
Designed to acquaint students with opportunities for leisure and recreational activity in the outdoors. Emphasizes safety measures and planning skills as well as development of particular movement skills and knowledge about associated wildlife.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHYS-ED 212      Self Defense View Details
Study in the theory of self defense. Content focuses on: technique for eliminating dangers from daily living, methods for recognizing and avoiding dangers, and skills and strategies for employing physical defense when necessary.
Credits: 1 hours
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PHYS-ED 312      Physical Education For Elementary Schools View Details
Identifies physical education needs of elementary school child in relation to his/her total development with emphasis on methods and materials.
Credits: 2 hours
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PHYS-ED 323      Nutrition For Fitness And Sport View Details
This course examines the role nutrition, complemented by exercise, may play in the enhancement of fitness and sport performance. Considerable attention will be devoted to the use of nutritional ergogenic aids with reference to athletic performance.
Credits: 3 hours
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PHYS-ED 361      Sociology Of Sport And Exercise View Details
The critical examination of the function of sport in the American culture, in an interdisciplinary fashion, with a focus on the contemporary scene. The work of the course will include readings on sociological issues of sport and exercise, the writing of mini-research papers, and a long paper with a presentation. Prerequisite: Introduction course in sociology Offered: MW 1pm-2:15 (Winter)
Credits: hours
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PHYS-ED 370      Psychology Of Sport And Exercise View Details
Exploration of psychological constructs related to the competitive sport process and to physical activity.
Credits: 3 hours
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