88 courses with the subject PED, 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.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed for student athletes and cheerleaders who participate in the institution’s intercollegiate sports program. Participation in a varsity sport or cheerleading is required.
Credits: 1 hr This course offers special activities for students who are unable for health reasons to participate in regular physical education classes. The student will work with a Physical Education faculty member to design a program of fitness activities appropriate to meet the needs of the individual. The course may be taken to meet physical education activity requirements. Requirement: A doctor’s statement indicating the reason the student is unable to participate in regular physical education classes and determination by department chair that student cannot participate safely in an existing course.
Credits: 1 hr This course is offered in collaboration with the Winston-Salem State University Police Department and will provide instruction and participation in the areas of crime victimization and basis defensive measures. The course is based on the RAD System, which educates women, children, men and seniors about defensive strategies using simple and effective tactics and a unique teaching methodology. The RAD system provided a comprehensive self-defense program of defensive tactics, techniques, and education.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to acquaint the student with the fundamentals of soccer. The student will be introduced to basic skills, terminology, rules and game strategy.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to increase or maintain physical fitness through distance swimming.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to provide physical fitness through aerobic exercise. An emphasis will be placed on aerobic dance.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to acquaint the student with the necessary knowledge to train muscles effectively with the use of weights. The course can accommodate beginner, intermediate, and advanced students.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to help students to acquire or maintain adequate levels of physical fitness through conditioning and aerobic activities in the water. All activities will be performed in shallow water.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed for students with little to no experience in the water. The course will work to help students conquer their fear of swimming and feel comfortable in the water. The course will include an introduction of the basic concepts of stroke technique and water safety.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to help the student develop eating and exercise habits which will lead to life-long weight management.
Credits: 1 hr This is a course that will provide basic skills needed to function as an entry-level Student Athletic Trainer (SAT). The course has a lab component. This laboratory will provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate and apply entry level preventative taping techniques along with specific joint protection appliances.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to prepare physical education (PED) majors for entry into the PED profession. Specifically, this course addresses the following topics: introduction to professionalsm, self-analysis, goal setting, resume writing, relevant practicum/volunteer experiences, and ethics. This course is designed to be taken immediately after students have completed 45 hours in the general education.
Credits: 1 hr This course provides an elementary dance foundation in modern, ballet, jazz, hip hop and world dance forms. This class incorporates floor and standing work to increase joint mobility, efficient movement patterns, core strength, and proper support for dance movement and develop upper/lower connectivity. It explores space, time and energy and emphasizes individual and group dance experience. This course is for students with no dance training or those who wish to develop beyond the beginning level.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to acquaint the student with basic skills of swimming and develop skills in the basic or standard swimming strokes. Students who complete this course will meet standards set by the American Red Cross for beginning and advanced beginning swimming.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to acquaint the student with basic skills of swimming and develop skills in the standard swimming strokes. Students who complete this course will meet the standards set by the American Red Cross for intermediate swimming.
Credits: 1 hr The student will be introduced to a variety of games which can be played in the water. Emphasis will be placed on skill development and enjoyment of the water.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to meet standards set by the American Red Cross for the regular and advanced swimming courses. Physical education majors must achieve the ARC certification for Advanced Swimming in order to meet the competency requirement.
Credits: 1 hr Water Walking is a low-impact, low-intensity workout that uses the natural resistance of the water to strengthen core musculature and increase balance, coordination, and flexibility. The class will participate in movements that are forward, backward, and side-to-side. Students will participate in water walking with the assistance of flotation vests or belts and will learn shallow water walking as well as how to tread water.
Credits: 1 hr This course will teach the fundamentals of this flashy, athletic, and high-energy dance, introducing fundamental footwork, lead-and-follow technique, and Lindy Hop’s signature style. This is a beginner level class. The class has a progressive format which means we review and build upon previous weeks’ material each class. The course will also cover the history of The Lindy Hop which is an American dance that was born in the African American communities in Harlem, New York City and how it has evolved since then.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to acquaint the student with knowledge, fundamental skills and strategies of net games including tennis, badminton, table tennis, and volleyball.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to improve or maintain students’ levels of physical fitness through flexibility, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular activities. The major form of aerobic activity will be walking/jogging.
Credits: 1 hr This course introduces the fundamentals of racquetball. Emphasis is placed on rules, fundamentals, and strategies of beginning racquetball. This course will provide a basic understanding of the skills and knowledge necessary for the enjoyment of racquetball as lifetime activity. Upon completion, students should be able to play recreational racquetball.
Credits: 1 hr This course introduces fitness through walking. Emphasis is placed on stretching, conditioning exercises, proper clothing, fluid needs, and injury prevention. Upon completion, students should be able to participate in a recreational walking program.
Credits: 1 hr This course introduces students to the fundamentals of cultural dance forms which are traditional and contemporary with a focus on dance alignment, coordination, conditioning, and musicality.
This course is designed for students who have prior experience and knowledge of yoga. In this course, students will build upon their prior knowledge of yoga to expand their range of motion, endurance, and meditation practices.
This course is designed to improve students’ muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiovascular capacities through a variety of strength and conditioning practices and methods. This course will privilege a bodyweight approach to fitness, introducing students to a wide variety of training methods that do not require access to a fitness facility.
Credits: 1 hr The skills, knowledge and simple strategies essential to the enjoyment of this ancient form of swordplay will be presented in this course. Students will gain experience as competitors and officials. The history and etiquette of fencing will be emphasized.
Credits: 1 hr This course introduces the student to such activities as crafts, archery, croquet, angling, quiet games, shuffleboard, table tennis, horseshoes, and deck tennis.
Credits: 1 hr An introduction to outdoor skills and adventure education activities will be presented in this course. Students will be exposed to activities such as hiking, backpacking, camping, orienteering, nature studies, ropes courses, and rock climbing.
Water ballet is a hybrid form of swimming, dancing, and gymnastics designed to increase fitness while having fun in the water. Course will include instruction on kicking, pattern swimming, and breathing, while treading water; thereby improving flexibility, speed, endurance, and comfort in the water.
Credits: 1 hr This course offers a foundational knowledge of rhythm, which is essential for the development of skilled movement. The course also introduces the student to educational gymnastics, including stunts, tumbling, rhythmic gymnastics, and apparatus activities.
Credits: 1 hr This course offers instruction in the fundamentals of tennis, such as forehand and backhand drives, service, rules, court play and etiquette. Students with intermediate or advanced skills will not be permitted to take this class.
Credits: 1 hr This course gives instruction and practice in basic skills, the rules of golf and the selection and care of equipment.
Credits: 1 hr This course introduces the student to essential concepts for teaching team sports such as softball, basketball, volleyball, and soccer. Teaching methods, fundamentals, and officiating for each activity are presented.
Credits: 1 hr This course introduces the student to essential concepts for teaching individual and dual activities such as gymnastics, tennis, bowling, golf, track and field, and wrestling. Teaching methods, fundamentals, and officiating for each activity are presented.
Credits: 1 hr This course is to be taken in conjunction with PED 2240: Perceptual Motor Development. It allows students to gain practical experience working with preschool children from birth to kindergarten in instructional programs such as those located in public and private schools, and day care centers. Under the direction of the course instructor, students will observe, design, and implement movement activities that are developmentally appropriate for children, birth to kindergarten. Learning experiences for students include observations, planning, teaching, lesson evaluation, monitoring a reflective journal, writing reaction papers, and reflecting on the various types of decisions made in each environment. Practicum will consist of 50 hours during the semester.
Credits: 1 hr This course will provide supervised clinical experiences in the application of Athletic Training techniques. This course allows the students to gain 50 documented clinical hours with a National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board Certified Athletic Trainer. Students will be required to complete a minimum of 225 hours total between the three clinical courses. This course can be taken concurrently with PED 3310 -Prevention & Care of Athletic Injuries, PED 3323 -Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries, and/or PED 3323 -Introducation to Sports Medicine.
Credits: 2 hrs This course is designed to equip the student with basic scuba diving skills and knowledge to make students safe while scuba diving or snorkeling in, on, or about the water.
Credits: 3 hrs PED 2302 offers a critical intellectual engagement with social structures, social spaces, social desires, and social oppression through which our understanding and experiences with bodies and physical activities are constituted. The course is meant to challenge assumptions about bodies as solely physical entities. A significant goal of this course is to advance thinking beyond the physical, toward a professional practice informed by social and cultural knowledge of sporting bodies, sporting identities and sporting spaces. We will work toward a radical contextualization of human movement and will consistently question the role of sport in constructing yet contesting identities, borders, and social hierarchies. As a social and behavioral marker course PED 2302 is intentionally NOT a study of individual, physical performance, but rather a study of sporting bodies, sporting identities and sporting spaces that inhabit them.
Credits: 2 hrs This course will serve as an introduction to the profession of sports medicine. The daily responsibilities and occupational opportunities in sports medicine will be discussed. Laboratory experiences will include basic skills needed to function as an entry-level student athletic trainer.
Credits: 3 hrs This course will introduce the practice of mindfulness and teach skills, including meditation and other life skills, that promote well-being and stress management. Students will learn about mindfulness, practice mindfulness exercises, and participate in various mindfulness-promoting activities in and out of the classroom.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to help students understand human physiology in the conceptual framework of human movement. Special attention will be placed on the nervous, muscular, circulatory and respiratory systems. This serves as a basis and pre-requisites for PED 3411 and PED 3321 .
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to introduce the fundamental principles of cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, and strength development, to elementary age students, as well as to assist each individual in designing and implementing their own personal fitness program based on individual needs. Emphasis will also be placed on developing and implementing student assessment protocols to determine if students are getting enough MVPA during PE and achieving language objectives and standards. Students will explore resources for and methods of teaching the principles of fitness in the secondary school setting. This is a required course for the physical education major and the physical education/coaching minor.
Credits: 3 hrs This course explores the development of the perceptual and motor systems of the body and relates this information to the acquisition of motor skills beginning at the pre- school level. The student will learn developmental sequences, assessment techniques, and facilitation activities.
Credits: 1 hr This course is designed to teach students effective coaching skills and is designed for both physical education and non-physical education majors. Experience with sports activities is required. Practicum required.
Credits: 1 hr Students will complete a service-learning project working directly with a community youth development program. This is a practicum course which will be completed in an after-school and/or sport setting.
Credits: 1 hr This course allows the student to gain practical experience working with elementary school children in physical educucation settings under the direct supervision of an exercise professional. Students, in conjunction with their university supervisor, the student will select an elementarty site where they participate in a field experience for a minimum of 4o hours during the semster. Progress will be monitored by the university supervisor.
Credits: 2 hrs Curricular models and movement activities appropriate for the elementary level of physical education will be presented. The student will also learn methods of teaching and be involved in a practicum with elementary children. Lab required.
Credits: 2 hrs This course is designed to provide entry-level lifeguard participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize, and respond to aquatic emergencies and to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries, and sudden illnesses until emergency services personnel take over.
Credits: 2 hrs This course will provide supervised clinical experiences in the application of Athletic Training techniques. This course allows the students to gain 75 documented clinical hours with a National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board Certified Athletic Trainer. Students will be required to complete a minimum of 225 hours total between the three clinical courses.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to educate students on principles and standards, rules, mechanics and procedures for officiating competitive sports, as well as the requirements for officiating those sports. The course will outline the basic rules for each sport taught and provided information on officiating techniques.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an introduction to mentoring underserved youths. Students will be introduced to different learning and communication styles, working with diverse students. Special emphasis will be placed on strategies and best practices in mentoring “at risk” and underserved youth.
Credits: 3 hrs This course explores the area of youth development through sport and physical activity. Goals include identifying and evaluating principles and best practices in youth development through sport and physical activity, implementing a community-based program and designing appropriate activities. Issues related to social responsibility in sport and physical activity will also be discussed.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed for future coaches and students who desire academic and practical preparation in athletic training. It provides a theoretical background in the methods of preventing and treating athletic injuries, techniques of taping, bandaging, emergency first aid, and massage.
Credits: 3 hrs Through this course the student will learn the major principles underlying the acquisition of motor skill and how control of skilled movements is gained, maintained, and adapted. The role of practice in learning will be thoroughly investigated. Lab required.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is an in-depth study of the physiological aspects of exercise and training. The health aspects of exercise will be emphasized. Laboratory required.
Credits: 3 hrs This is an advanced level course that will prepare physical educators for creating a health-related physical education program with the goal of promoting lifelong activity and fitness. This course is designed to provide an applied approach fitness assessment, including assessing fitness levels, determining fitness goals and designing fitness program.
Credits: 3 hrs This course will present the principles and objectives inherent in rehabilitating athletic injuries. General instruction will include specific conditioning and re-conditioning techniques for the injured athlete, therapeutic exercises, therapeutic modalities, basic and advanced rehabilitation techniques, and exercise and rehabilitation equipment used for athletic injuries. The laboratory experience will allow students to demonstrate and apply various rehabilitation techniques, therapeutic exercises and equipment and modalities used for injured athletes. ***This class will be taken concurrently with PED 4000***
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to teach students curricular models and movement activities appropriate for the elementary level of physical education. Students will also learn methods of teaching and will gain practical experience working with elementary school children in physical education settings, under the direction of an exercise professional. Students, in conjunction with their university supervisor, will select an elementary site where they will participate in a field experience for a minimum of 40 hours during the semester. Progress will be monitored by the university supervisor.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines effective procedures of organization, administration and supervision of physical education programs. Included also is the use of media in instruction, selection of personnel, and the use of computers.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to teach students effective coaching skills and is designed for both physical education and non-physical education majors. this course covers the basic knowledge, acquisition, and application of coaching philosophy, sport psychology, and teaching skills that influence coaching effectiveness. Emphasis will be placed on helping students to analyze and study teaching and coaching behaviors that are necessary for students interested in the coaching profession. A coaching practicum is included and is designed to provide the student an in-the-field coaching experience in which he/she can, in a supervised situation, develop, test, and modify his/her coaching knowledge, skill, nd attitudes. Experience with sports activities is required.
Credits: 4 hrs In this course the student will learn the structure and function of the skeletal and muscular systems. This information will be the basis on which mechanical principles of physics will be applied to study human movement. Lab required.
Credits: 1-3 hrs The course is designed for juniors and seniors in the physical education department who wish to investigate selected professional problems that relate to health, physical education, recreation, and sports. This course will help students survey concepts that are useful in the pursuit of graduate studies as well as careers in their desired fields.
Credits: 1 hr This course analyzes current issues and future trends in physical education. Present and future research topics are discussed along with the exploration of professional roles, responsibilities and a code of ethics.
Credits: 1 hr This course will include seminars facilitated by sports medicine physicians and will focus on topics such as concussions, nutrition, sickle-cell trait, etc within Sports Medicine. A combination of clinical observation and classroom instruction will be the primary means of professional education.
Credits: 1 hr In this course, the major curriculum models prevalent in the field of physical education will be presented. Using these as a base, the student will explore the process of developing a comprehensive curriculum for grades K-12.
Credits: 2 hrs This course covers the basic knowledge, acquisition, and application of coaching philosophy, sport psychology, and teaching skills that influence coaching effectiveness. Emphasis will be placed on helping students to analyze and study teaching and coaching behaviors that are necessary for students interested in the coaching profession. A coaching practicum is included and is designed to provide the student an in-the-field coaching experience in which he/she can, in a supervised situation, develop, test, and modify his/her coaching knowledge, skill, and attitudes.
Credits: 2 hrs This course will allow the students to gain practical experience using and applying the techniques and principles of athletic training. Students will be under the supervision of a National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board Certified Athletic Trainer. Students will be assigned to an athletic trainer as well as one of the sports’ team. Students will need to complete a minimum of 200 hours clinical experience which include some nights, weekends and travel. The student must keep a detailed work log and will be evaluated periodically. *** This class will be taken concurrently with
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the scientific and applied principles of conditioning and training, with emphasis on training stress, fatigue monitoring, recovery strategies, athlete monitoring systems, and psychological performance factors. Students will integrate physiological, technological, and psychological principles into evidence-based training program design.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines current issues, policies and literature related to the understanding youth development in the context of community. This course will introduce students to the critical issues, as well as, future trends in youth development.
Credits: 3 hrs The Youth Development Concentration/Track provides Physical Education majors an additional non-licensure option. It is designed to prepare Physical Education- Non-Teaching majors to coach, direct activities and work in school and community-based youth serving agencies.
Credits: 3 - 6 hrs This is a course that will accommodate various “one-time” content to cover special issues related to the multiple discipline within Human Performance and Sport Sciences. Instructor permission is required for enrollment.
Credits: 3 hrs This is an advanced level course that will familiarize students with psychological concepts as they relate to human behavior, movement, sport, and exercise. Students will be introduced to theories and research in the field of sport and exercise psychology. The course is designed to address psychological factors affecting an individual’s behaviors related to sport performance, exercise, health and/or rehabilitation. In addition, the course will cover means to enhance performance in areas of sport, exercise, health and/or rehabilitation using psychological skills.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to teach the student to apply physiological, biomechanical principles to the development of physical activity programs for variety of populations. The course will additionally cover the skills and techniques related to performing a battery of physical assessments in order to more effectively prescribe various patterns to a variety of populations.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the nature of handicapping conditions and the use of motor skill to enable adaptation to social life, community living, and recreational environments. Also examined will be the role of adaptive physical education in the regular physical education program, the special education program, school administrational functions, parental activity and related services. Practicum required.
Credits: 3 hrs Through this course the major components of the middle school and secondary school physical education curriculums will be explored. Students will continue to build methodological knowledge and to refine teaching skills. Emphasis will be placed on the characteristics of the learner, evaluating teacher effectiveness and individualization of program content. In addition, knowledge and skill content of motor activities commonly present in middle/secondary schools will be reviewed. Practicum required.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines effective procedures of organization, administration and supervision of physical education programs. Included also is the use of media in instruction, selection of personnel and the use of computers.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to prepare the prospective physical education teacher to apply various methods and material associated with teaching and learning motor skills, fitness and health in K-12. Special attention to theories of motivation, classroom management, and lesson and unit planning.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an in-depth study of skeletal muscle physiology and the cardiovascular, metabolic and neuromuscular adaptations to resistance exercise training. Exercise prescriptions for strength and endurance performance are emphasized. Students are prepared to attempt the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s certification exam. The class will focus on resistance training systems, basic principles of resistance training and benefits of resistance training. Although this is primarily a lecture-based course concentrating on the theoretical principles of resistance training, students will learn proper lifting and spotting techniques.
Credits: 3 hrs This course will provide supervised clinical experiences in the application of Athletic Training techniques. This course allows the students to gain 100 documented clinical hours with a National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board Certified Athletic Trainer. Clinical hours will emphasize advanced techniques in the acute care of injuries and illnesses, orthopedic assessment, and risk management and injury prevention. Students will be required to complete a minimum of 225 hours total between the three clinical courses.
Credits: 6 hrs The internship requires the student to utilize the skills and techniques learned in previous course work. The internship allows the student to elect to work with various groups, which may include persons with disabilities. A minimum of 14 hours per week (240 per semester) is required.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to increase knowledge of the current theory and practice of testing, evaluation, and research in physical education, with emphasis on the methods and tools of research. Measurement and evaluation principles including basic statistical techniques will be applied to research problems in health and physical education. Emphasis will be placed on concepts such as authentic assessment, competency-based evaluation. portfolio assessment, needs assessment and program evaluation.
Credits: 3 hrs This course will examine principles of physical education based upon physiology, psychology, and motor development. It will include analysis of these areas as they relate to: plans and regulations for the conduct of the curriculum in physical education; criteria for the evaluation and selection of activities; and evaluation and measurement.
Credits: 3 hrs This course will guide MAT students to examine the theoretical principles and practical knowledge of motor learning and development in physical education settings. The MAT students will be provided opportunities to apply the principles by designing optimal learning experiences. By analyzing their students’ learning environment and prior learning experiences, the MAT students will be guided to work collaboratively with other professionals, parents, and the community stakeholders to establish a comprehensive school physical activity program (CSPAP).
Source: Winston-Salem State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
