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PHED
65 courses with the subject PHED, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PHED 1100Badminton1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to acquaint students with the game of badminton. Participants will be taught proper rules and techniques used in playing the game of badminton, i.e., serves, drives, clears, smashes, and drops. Emphasis will be placed on both singles and doubles game strategies to match recreational or competitive situations. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course in recreational canoeing allows students to experience both lake and river canoeing. Students will learn the fundamentals of canoeing; launching, landing and transporting a canoe, proper stroke technique, situational water reading, selecting canoes and the correct equipment, water safety and etiquette, crew communication and river rescue. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course provides the opportunity to develop physical skills in the performance of a number of social/ballroom dances, as well as an appreciation for the art and skill of social dance. The dances will include a variety of steps in the fox-trot, waltz, swing, two-step, mambo, rumba, cha- cha, polka and line dance. (
TOTAL………………………………………………………………………………………….75 CREDITS PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Upon completion of the Emergency Medicine Paramedic program at RCTC, students will achieve the following outcomes: • Know the principles underlying the profession of paramedicine, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and disorders recognized and treated by paramedics. • Demonstrate knowledge of the modalities and skills used in emergency medical services and the ability to assess objectively the evidence for their effectiveness. • Acquire skills for life-long, self-directed learning to update their knowledge of the practice of paramedicine after completion of their formal studies. • Acquire the practical skills needed to work as a competent paramedic delivering emergency medical services. • Assume responsibility for independent judgment in making sound decisions regarding patient management. • Apply these skills to appropriate, safe, effective and compassionate patient care. • Understand the use of quality improvement techniques to enhance the accuracy and appropriate of patient care for the paramedic. • Practice both independently and collaboratively as part of a clinical teams and health care systems. • Practice according to the ethical principles and legal requirements of the profession of paramedicine and of Mayo Clinic. • Demonstrate cultural competency, respect for diversity and the ability to practice in diverse healthcare settings in a multicultural society. • Exhibit appropriate skills of interpersonal communication with patients and other members of the health team. • Assume the multifaceted roles of an active professional, including practitioner, educator, researcher, collaborator, advocate and lifelong learner. • Understand the responsibilities of all health care workers to contribute to enhancing health and welfare of society. • Promote advancement of emergency medical services through practice, education and research. ADDITIONAL NOTES: The Emergency Medicine Paramedic Program is offered in collaboration between Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Ambulance, and Rochester Community and Technical College (RCTC) in Rochester, Minnesota. Students must apply to the program and acceptance is competitive. Admission and application requirements can be found: https://college.mayo.edu/academics/health-sciences-education/emergency-medicine- paramedic-program-minnesota/how-to-apply/
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is intended to introduce the student to the basic and intermediate aspects of soccer. Through instruction, demonstration, practice and play the student will learn the skills, rules, and strategies involved in the game of soccer. Other aspects covered are basic conditioning, fitness principles and the benefits of exercise. Group work is utilized to develop cooperation and teamwork. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline The student will learn the basic rules of operation of the bicycle, rules of the road, and how to properly care for equipment. The student will be introduced to the value of cycling in achieving physical fitness and will be encouraged to continue cycling as a lifetime skill. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is intended to teach students how to bowl using the spot bowl system. Students will learn how to keep score and select appropriate equipment to assure that bowling can become a lifelong leisure activity. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to teach students the basic fundamental skills and safety components of this sport. Other elements explored include the history of archery, specific terminology and the differences within the field of archery between recreational, competitive and archery used for hunting. This course hopes to expose the student to archery as a lifetime activity. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course designed to introduce the student to various aspects of jogging and walking activities. Topics to be covered include but are not limited to, stretching, form, fitness principles, and proper equipment needed for jogging and fitness walking. The course will help students to develop lifelong fitness programs by developing and understanding aerobic principles, cardiovascular conditioning, nutrition and performance enhancement. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course provides the opportunity to develop a more advanced variety of step patterns, style and skill in the performance of a number of social/ballroom dances, as well as deeper appreciation for the art and skill of social dance. This course will review, enhance and develop to the next level, dances previously learned in PHED 1103 Social Dance: Foxtrot, Waltz, Two- Step, Swing, Polka, Cha-Cha, Mambo, and Rumba, as well as several contemporary line dances. New dance skills will be introduced as well, with Night Club Two Step offering a midrange dance tempo alternative, Cumbia which is a step of Latin dance influence that can be performed at a range of tempos and the American Tango, which takes social dancing to a more complex level of synchronized and precision movements. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This is an activity class designed to offer instructions on specific skill development, playing strategy, scoring, and rules application to the game of recreational slow pitch softball. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is intended to introduce the student to all aspects of volleyball. Through instruction, practice and play the student will learn the skills, rules and strategies involved in the game of volleyball. The course will also cover some of the basic aspects the benefits of exercise through sport specific conditioning and fitness. Students will also be exposed to the importance of communication, teamwork and cooperation. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is intended to introduce the student to all aspects of the activity of swimming, regardless if the learner is a beginning or intermediate swimmer. The course will include instruction in techniques of swimming strokes with basic water safety and current rescue techniques. Instruction will be given in a variety of formats for teaching swim strokes along with technical analysis and evaluation for improvement. Other concepts may include endurance swimming utilizing various strokes to match swimming situations. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to teach students techniques in weight training and aerobic components of fitness. The course will utilize both fitness machines and free weights. These concepts contribute to muscular strength, endurance and cardiovascular efficiency, for a lifetime of fitness. The student will also be exposed to basic anatomy/physiology principles regarding warm-ups, cool downs, stretching and body structure. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline Tai Chi is a system of gentle and slow-motion exercise for the mind/body connection. This course will expose students to a beginning level of simplified Tai Chi form and several meditation techniques for stress management. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline Yoga is a discipline associated with physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits. The focus of the class will be on Hatha Yoga, which is that branch of Yoga that works primarily with the body through asanas or postures. These postures are performed in a variety of positions, including; seated, kneeling, standing, lying and partially inverted on the floor. Breathing exercises, meditation and relaxation will also be highly emphasized. Yoga postures enhance flexibility, balance, and strength, while focusing on mind/body awareness. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course implements the concept of cardiovascular conditioning through the use of steps, risers and fitness routines set to music. Each workout utilizes a 4-10" step bench for aerobic exercise routines for cardiovascular fitness, but also includes the implementation of activities that improve muscle strengthening, flexibility, balance, reaction time and coordination. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is an exercise based participation class designed to increase muscle strength, endurance, tone and flexibility, using a variety of progressive resistance techniques. Other aspects discussed include the five health-related components of fitness including muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, body composition, flexibility and cardiovascular efficiency. Basic nutrition concepts are explored as they relate to body composition, daily intake and proper nutrition for both healthy living and fitness performance. (
hours/week vary - Common Course Outline The practice of Hatha Yoga focuses on creating or enhancing flexibility, balance, strength, and mind/body awareness. This course builds from the foundation of PHED 1125, continuing the exploration of Hatha Yoga, including posture/asanas, breathing exercises (pranayama), meditation practices and relaxation, in more breadth and detail. (1 C) (Hours per week: 2 hours) (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to cover the basic fundamentals of tennis. Skill development will include ground strokes, passing shots, overhead and drop shots as they pertain to usage in the game. Competitive play, scoring and aspects of short game and net play will also be implemented as integral components of the game. This course aims to assist the learner to develop skills to continue the game of tennis as a recreational and lifelong skill. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to introduce the student to the game of golf. Skills for successful play that will be taught include many elements within the fundamentals of the grip, stance and swing. The class is designed to work on the fundamentals and progress with skill development, learn the rules of the game, as well as game/course management during a round of golf. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to introduce the student to various aspects of sprinting and explosive running activities. Topics to be covered include: proper technique for stretching and running as well as fitness principles and proper equipment application required to implement running and power fitness. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to teach students techniques for effective weight training, while utilizing body weight, machines and free weights to assist students in becoming physically stronger. The student will also be exposed to basic anatomy and physiology principles regarding warm-up, stretching and body musculature. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to introduce the student to a wide variety of outdoor recreational leisure and fitness winter activities. This course is somewhat weather-dependent, thus activities may include, but are not limited to: cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, boot hockey, broom ball, ice fishing, and winter jogging. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course teaches the use of map and compass for navigational purposes. This class is designed to incorporate the use of map and compass along with a variety of hiking experiences, as a leisure activity and an enjoyable means to physical fitness and a greater appreciation for the outdoors. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to provide the student with a variety of practical skills necessary to escape a physical attack. Special tactics such as throws, kicks, falls, submission holds and counter moves are taught. Students are taught how to avoid potentially threatening situations, evaluate surroundings and develop preventative routines for personal safety, while acquiring skills to extricate themselves from dangerous physical altercations. (Prerequisites:
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course includes the basics of safe diving taught through academic training, and confined and open water diving sessions. The course is delivered through both lecture and pool practice sessions. Open water dives will be held at an area lake. Recommended Entry Level Skill: Students should be comfortable being in the water, be able to swim 200 yards nonstop and be able to comfortably tread water for 10 minutes. Successful completion of all of the elements of the course earns the PADI (Professional Association of Dive Instructors) Open Water certification. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed for students to develop skills relating to sports that are more family, social or designed for recreational competition. These sports: table tennis, horseshoes, disc golf, badminton, pickleball and bocce ball are competitive, yet are activities that will provide opportunities for students to learn now, develop through practice and participation, yet continue to be involved with throughout their lifetime. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed for students to develop skills relating to sports that are more family, social or designed for recreational competition. These sports; team handball, floor hockey, ultimate Frisbee, soccer, flag football and kickball can be performed as family activities or in a competitive amateur setting. This course is designed to expose students to opportunities for learning through practice and participation, to develop team sport skills, continue to be active physically and enjoy the social aspects of team sports throughout their lifetime. (Prerequisites:
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to teach students techniques for improving overall strength and core training with the TRX suspension trainer workout system. The TRX Suspension Trainer utilizes leverage, gravity and the student's bodyweight to perform hundreds of exercises. Suspension training with bodyweight exercises develops muscle strength, and increases balance, flexibility and core stability simultaneously. This course also includes basic anatomy, as well as basic physiology principles as they relate to preparing the body for work, increasing load and the progression of increasing physical demands for continued improvement in the areas of strength, flexibility, muscle endurance, core stability and quality of life. (
PHED 1151High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) with TRX Suspension Training1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to teach students High Intensity Interval Training techniques including overall muscle strength, core training with increased power concepts by utilizing the TRX suspension trainer workout system. HIIT, also known as metabolic conditioning, requires the student to engage in directed, intense physical activity for short bursts, repeatedly, with limited recovery time. This format of training provides a tremendous aerobic, anaerobic, strengthening and power building workout. The TRX Suspension Trainer uses leverage, gravity and the individual's bodyweight to perform hundreds of intense exercises. Suspension training with bodyweight exercises develops strength, balance, flexibility and core stability simultaneously. The Versatility of HIIT TRX training offers a huge variety of exercises to choose from, and build on, for effective aerobic and anaerobic workouts. This course includes basic anatomy and physiological principles regarding how to increase aerobic and anaerobic load and the process for increasing physical demands for improvement in the areas of aerobic fitness, strength, flexibility, muscle endurance, core stability and quality of life. (Prerequisites:
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed for Law Enforcement students who need additional assistance in performing to the physical standards set by their field. Students taking this course will have been directed to this structured physical training format to enable them to both reach their desired goal of passing the physical training portion of their skills, as well as to gain a comprehensive understanding of the complexities that diet, healthy lifestyle choices and continued daily physical training contribute toward maintaining optimal fitness levels throughout their career. Although designed for POFC students, this course is open to any student. (
PHED 1190Strength, Agility and Quickness Training for Football Athletes1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to teach football team players techniques in weight training in both free weights and machines, to assist students in becoming stronger and better conditioned football players. The student will also be exposed to basic anatomy/physiology principles regarding warm-up, stretching and body musculature related to the sport of football. (
PHED 1191Strength, Agility and Quickness for Volleyball and Soccer Athletes1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to train the soccer and volleyball athlete techniques in strength, agility, and speed to prepare for the upcoming sport season. The student will also be exposed to basic anatomy/physiology principles regarding warm up, stretching, overuse injury prevention, and body musculature. Proper biomechanics education will be provided for jumping, hitting, pivoting, and sprinting activities as they relate to their respective sports. (
PHED 1192Strength, Agility and Quickness Training for Basketball Athletes1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to guide basketball players in techniques of strength, speed, and agility to prepare themselves for their season. Areas addressed will be the principles regarding proper warm-up, stretching, strength training, cardiovascular endurance training and nutrition. Biomechanical breakdown, analysis and education will also be provided for all components of running, jumping and plyometric skills. (
PHED 1193Strength, Agility and Quickness Training for Wrestling Athletes1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to guide the wrestling athlete through techniques in strength, endurance, speed, power and agility that will prepare the athlete for the upcoming season. The course is focused on sport specific principles and includes a detailed sport specific nutrition component. Students will become familiar with basic anatomy and muscle structures, and how the development of specific structures, through proper training and nutrition, can promote optimal performance throughout training and in competition. (
PHED 1194Strength, Agility and Quickness Training for Baseball and Softball Athletes1
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to guide the pre-season baseball/softball athlete in techniques of strength, agility, and quickness that will prepare the athlete for the upcoming baseball/softball season. The student will also be exposed to basic anatomy/physiology principles regarding warm up, stretching and body musculature. Proper biomechanics education will be provided for overhead throwing, sport specific pitching mechanics, hitting, multi-directional movement, fielding, and base-running techniques. (
2 hours lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of movement as it relates to biomechanics. Biomechanics is utilized to study improving human performance by exploring muscle force in relationship to velocity, length and time. Linear motion, angular motion, coordination, proprioception, viscoelasticity all interrelate through neuromuscular and skeletal systems to create movement. Biomechanics explains, evaluates, analyzes and prescribes amendments to improve performance. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to introduce students to the field of kinesiology. Kinesiology explores the physiological, motor, and psychological aspects of movement and physical activity. Students will analyze and create movement sequences that promote efficient patterns for optimal performance. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline Teaching group fitness requires an in-depth understanding of both the anatomy and physiology of the body as well as training principles to provide a safe, exciting and challenging workout for clients. This course is designed to provide students with the actual physical components of teaching using cues and routines along with progressions designed to provide challenges in any group fitness setting. This course provides both the foundation for understanding the body systems and how various training regimes benefit the body as a whole, and the hands-on incorporation of teaching techniques. This class contains a lab-like component. RECOMMENDED ENTRY SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE: PHED 1105, PHED1122, PHED 1124, PHED 1125, PHED 1126, PHED 1127, PHED 1132, PHED 1133, and PHED 2245. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course explores the foundations of exercise science, safe and effective exercise techniques, program design and safety and legal issues of providing personal training instruction to clients. This course takes an in-depth look into anatomy and physiology and how it relates to the body's adaptation to both anaerobic and aerobic training regimes. Evaluating individuals utilizing physical testing protocols and assessments and developing exercise prescriptions for clients based on their present levels of fitness and their goals is the primary focus, while understanding the intricate interrelationships of the body systems to achieve optimal results. RECOMMENDED ENTRY SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE: College Level Reading, PHED 1105, PHED 1122, PHED 1132, and
2 hours lecture/week - 2 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed for an in-depth individualized look at strength training and conditioning in a variety of settings. This information may be applied to the individual who seeks advanced techniques within a specific regime of training or used in a team conditioning setting. The programs developed would be adaptable to meet the specific requirements of that team's interest as dictated by the particular demands of the activity. RECOMMENDED ENTRY SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE: PHED 1105, PHED 1122, PHED 1132, and
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed as a review course for students wishing to complete a Group Fitness Instructor or Personal Trainer certification. Various industry standard entities (ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, NETA) offer similar certifications that cover the specifics of a variety of strength and conditioning activities such as; Pilates, yoga, step aerobics, floor aerobics, aquatic exercise, indoor cycling, sport conditioning, functional training, kickboxing, exercise and bosa ball, various cardiovascular conditioning courses. These certification exams are intense and comprehensive. This course is a review of all concepts through the use of lecture and practical experience. Recommended, but not required: PHED 1105, PHED 1108, PHED 1122 PHED 1124, 1126, PHED 1127, PHED 1132, PHED 1133, PHED 2240, PHED 2242, PHED 2249, PHED 2250, and PHED 2253. (
PHED 2249Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries I3
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course offers knowledge and practical experience in the field of athletic training taught under the guidance of a NATABOC certified athletic trainer. The NATA Competencies in Athletic Training serve as a guideline for knowledge that each student should obtain in this academic course. This course is designed to engage students in the process of reviewing, analyzing, discussing, synthesizing, and reflecting about athletic training, and to provide basic skills for students entering the field of coaching or athletic training. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to provide a better understanding of the variety of personalities, learning styles, scope of emotions and cognitive variables that athletes face. Other aspects explored will include how individuals blend into a team setting, accept individualized sport instruction, incorporate motivation in practice and competition environments and personal daily activities. Sport psychology applies to all aspects of the athlete's life, thus a deeper understanding is needed of the holistic picture of the athletes approach to sport in their life. Student athletes need to address balance for school, family, finances, relaxation, resisting the temptation of substance use, personal anxiety when faced with adversity or injuries, and the skills to avoid burnout. Coaches also need to recognize these same issues as they relate to themselves and how to effectively cope with this demanding lifestyle. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline Nutritional requirements for specific optimal performance can be general to some point, yet require individualization when taking into consideration the athlete and their performance goals. This course will explore nutritional strategies for both general performance and individualized dietary needs to match specific performance goals. Nutritional analysis and intake strategies will address individual needs relating to aerobic and anaerobic activity, and power and endurance aspects for optimal training, performance or competition, as it relates to specific sport applications. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course will offer an in-depth understanding of the rules of the game of basketball, as well as actual lab time moving through the mechanics of two person, on-court officiating. The course will incorporate the use of National Federation of High Schools supplemental tools, the Minnesota State High School League supplemental tools, as well as requiring acquisition of certification from, the Minnesota State High School League. This certification will be the result of taking the NFHS/MSHSL basketball exam. Lab time will be arranged. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course provides the foundation and professional skills required to become a sports official. Topics covered include the development of philosophy of the game, personal styles, legalities and professional ethics. The application of conflict resolution techniques while applying the rules of the game to provide fair competition and meaningful participation in events for student-athletes, coaches, spectators and officials is stressed. Other areas explored include continuing education opportunities and networking. (
PHED 2270Intro to Physical Education, Health, Rec, Coaching, Fitness & Sport Mgmt2
2 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to introduce the student to professional fields of Physical Education, Health, Wellness, Fitness, Coaching, Recreation and Leisure Activity and Sport Management. Areas of exploration will include history, philosophy, objectives, scientific and scholarly disciplines, allied fields, future trends, use of technologies, issues and liability, career opportunities and prospects. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course will allow for the exploration of different coaching philosophies, the development of individual personal style while exploring coaching responsibilities, ethical obligations, and how to balance personal time with coaching duties. Coaching requires the ability to appropriately interact with many individuals, ranging from athletes and parents to officials and professional peers; this course will explore appropriate interpersonal communication, as well as game management, proper analysis of statistics, how to recognize ergogenic aid usage by athletes and the application of proper collegiate recruiting processes. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to expose students to different approaches and strategies of coaching. It will teach prospective coaches the tactical skills to effectively break down complex sport movement into teachable, basic, fundamentals. Other areas that will be covered include how to effectively teach, evaluate and prepare athletes in all aspects of competition; how to plan and execute practices, as well as, season goals and strategies and how to develop the prospective coach's own style, philosophies and methods. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to expose students to different approaches and strategies of coaching. It will teach prospective coach's the tactical skills to effectively break down complex sport movement into teachable, basic, fundamentals. Other areas that will be covered include how to effectively teach, evaluate and prepare athletes in all aspects of competition; how to plan and execute practices, as well as, season goals and strategies and how to develop the prospective coach's own style, philosophies and methods. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to expose students to different approaches and strategies of coaching. It will teach prospective coaches the tactical skills to effectively break down complex sport movement into teachable, basic, fundamentals. Other areas that will be covered include how to effectively teach, evaluate and prepare athletes in all aspects of competition; how to plan and execute practices, as well as, season goals and strategies and how to develop the prospective coach's own style, philosophies and methods. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to expose students to different approaches and strategies of coaching. It will teach prospective coaches the tactical skills to effectively break down complex sport movement into teachable, basic, fundamentals. Other areas that will be covered include how to effectively teach, evaluate and prepare athletes in all aspects of competition; how to plan and execute practices, as well as, season goals and strategies and how to develop the prospective coach's own style, philosophies and methods. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to expose students to different approaches and strategies of coaching. It will teach prospective coaches the tactical skills to effectively break down complex sport movement into teachable, basic, fundamentals. Other areas that will be covered include how to effectively teach, evaluate and prepare athletes in all aspects of competition; how to plan and execute practices, as well as, season goals and strategies and how to develop the prospective coach's own style, philosophies and methods. (
1 hour lecture/week - 1 hour lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to expose students to different approaches and strategies of coaching. It will teach prospective coaches the tactical skills to effectively break down complex sport movement into teachable, basic, fundamentals. Other areas that will be covered include how to effectively teach, evaluate and prepare athletes in all aspects of competition; how to plan and execute practices, as well as, season goals and strategies and how to develop the prospective coach's own style, philosophies and methods. (
PHED 2280Introduction to Sport Facility Management3
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to teach leadership, administration and management of programs in sport and fitness facilities. Students will learn leadership styles and management functions as these components are essential factors in the success of any facility or program. Facility and program marketing, budgeting, risk management and legal aspects are also examined and applied through coursework and projects that simulate the management of a sport facility. (
PHED 2281Development and Management of Sport/Recreation Facilities3
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to give students a general overview of the guidelines associated with the development of new and/or renovating sports facilities. The course will explore the early planning stages and then progress through the necessary steps for the proper planning of new facilities. Each student will engage in classroom, out of classroom, lecture, and discussion about the strategies that need to be implemented for developing the facility plan, designing a new facility and carrying the project through to completion. Field trips are arranged. Completion of PHED 2280 is recommended before enrolling in this course. (Prerequisites:
2 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is comprised of approved on-the-job supervised work experience in the field of Group Fitness Instructor. Responsibilities and duties will be comprised of hands-on instruction of classes in a group fitness setting in relation to the individual's desired area. Duties will be determined by the direct supervisor of the internship with the approval of the internship director. (
3 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline The internship provides on the job supervised work experience in the field of Health, Physical Education, Recreation or Sport Facility Management. Students must be Physical Education or Sports Facility Management Majors, or have instructor permission to enroll in the course. (
3 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline This course is comprised of approved on the job supervised work experience in the field of Sport Management or Recreation Responsibilities and duties to be determined through the direct supervisor of the internship and approved by the internship director. Internship will include problem solving and interpersonal relations with peers and consumers, while also developing the individual's professional relationships. (
