This course is designed for students who have an interest in learning how to officiate football. Rules, rule interpretations, and football officiating mechanics will be examined. Lecture, discussion, videotapes, and presentations by certified football officials will be utilized. This course prepares the student to take the state certification test. Does not satisfy Area 1.3. Grading: S/U

This course is designed to introduce the student to the field of sport management through a review of the history, overview of the skill sets needed for success in the field, and discussion of possible careers in the field.

This course will examine a variety of issues relating to sport in today's society. The course is intended to provide an introduction to the sociology of sport and designed to raise questions to promote systematic, issue-related thinking about sport. Issues that relate to athletes today such as sports gambling, violence in sports, and substance abuse will be discussed to better understand the complex problems that pertain to sport.

This course is for persons who are responsible for giving emergency care to the sick and injured. Emergency care instruction will include airway management, fracture and dislocation splinting, cervical spine immobilization, extrication techniques, emergency treatment for asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, heat illness, and various forms of shock.

Prerequisites

PE 230 or Certification in First Aid and CPR

Basic course in the fundamental motor skills, playing strategy and basic teaching methodology of individual and team sports activities.

The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding and personal appreciation of the relationship between coaches and athletes and how it relates to both. Information will be provided in the areas of personality traits as well as leadership styles.

The intention of this class is to provide an opportunity to students who want to get to be involved in the acute onsite healthcare of athletes and active populations. This course will develop: knowledge of the emergency response personnel including first responders, athletic trainers and EMS; basic first responder knowledge and skills including primary and secondary assessment; and provide instruction in emergency care including airway management, fracture and dislocation splinting, and taping.

This course is designed to provide people with basic first aid and CPR knowledge for emergencies. Proper procedures in calling for help, skills necessary to keep someone alive, and ways to reduce pain will be examined. Students will also learn how to minimize the consequences of injury or sudden illness until professional help arrives.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

Theory of Coaching courses are designed for those students who intend to coach. Each theory course emphasizes the development of selected motor skills, team defensive and offensive strategies, conditioning and coaching principles.

The examination of coaching as a profession, including issues of philosophy and ethics, effective practice/competition planning, positive coaching and motivational techniques, performance analyses, program organization, risk management, contest administration, equipment and facility management, communication skills, and contemporary issues related to coaching.

An overview of the natural resources used for leisure, an analysis of leisure activities dependent upon natural resources, a presentation of the problems of recreational land use and an introduction to environmental awareness and outdoor safety.

This course is designed to prepare elementary education majors to teach health, physical education skills and activities and movement integration in regular education classrooms grades K-8. Emphasis is placed upon curriculum, methodology, and teaching aids in health and physical education at the elementary school level, while also providing a safe educational environment for all learners. Course includes a field experience of approximately 8 hours.

A course designed to prepare students to be effecting teachers of physical education. Students will discover developmentally appropriate teaching strategies for PE including knowledge and skills regarding methodology, classroom management, discipline, and assessment. Participants will learn and experience games, movement, and fitness activities appropriate for the elementary grades K-6.

A course designed to teach basic fundamental swim strokes, aquatic activities, and teaching methodology of swimming.

The integrated study of the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries, and first aid techniques emphasizing the practical application of treating athletic injuries in their initial phase. Taping, wrapping and basic assessment skills are emphasized.

This course will include folk, square and social dance with emphasis placed on skills techniques as well as methodology in teaching rhythms activities K-12.