Health & Human Performance

History, evolution, and current role of women in sport from a sociocultural perspective. Social norms in sport and society specific to gender, sexuality, race, and class. Masculinity, femininity, and non-binary cultural ideologies shaped through sport. Involvement of women in sport and physical activity and challenges associated with recognition and legitimacy. Impact of women in shaping a traditionally male domain.

Principles and philosophy of safety, health, and physical education including liability; historical, psychological, and biomechanical influences; and contributions to general education. Organization and administration of modern programs in levels K-12.

Preventive measures emphasizing proper conditioning, safe equipment, and facilities. Physiological and anatomical analysis. Practical experience dealing with wraps, taping, therapeutic techniques, and rehabilitative exercises. This course satisfies the proficiency requirement for Critical Thinking in the disciplines.

Health and physical education activities in public schools and community recreation. Needs, characteristics, and experiences at all grade levels. Attention to issues in safety and school health and a variety of recreational activities and skills.

Preventive measures emphasizing proper conditioning, safe equipment, and facilities. Physiological and anatomical analysis. Practical experience including first aid, CPR, universal precautions, wraps, taping, therapeutic techniques, and rehabilitative exercises.

Cardiovascular disease, cancer, body systems, reproduction, birth, sexually transmitted diseases, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, nutrition, non-communicable diseases, and communicable diseases.

Assessment of wellness dimensions, self-responsibility and self-management, prevention of common injuries associated with physical fitness, weight management based on predicted basal metabolism rate and body composition, cancer prevention, and planning wellness.

Behaviors, attitudes, and skills associated with proper driving fundamentals. Teacher preparation students will utilize the Administrative and Curriculum Guide for Driver Education in Virginia and cover the code of Virginia as it relates to motor vehicles.

General safety as it relates to the total program. Recreational, occupational, and home safety. Student projects in safety and first aid including CPR and liability.

Structural anatomy and its applications to performance. Exploration of biomechanical concepts of human movement.

Organ level approach to structure and function of human systems; laboratory emphasis on physiology of exercise. Recommended for Health and Human Performance majors. This course satisfies the proficiency requirement for Written Communication in the disciplines.

Offensive and defensive fundamentals for a variety of sports, including rules, regulations, and governing organizations.

A comparative exploration of education and sport in developed and developing countries drawing on several disciplines to examine the role that both play in individual and national development. This course satisfies the CORE 300 requirement in the CORE curriculum. The corresponding CORE 240 course, offered every other year, satisfies the Global Citizenship/Study Abroad requirement. 3 credit hours.

Techniques of selecting, constructing, administering, scoring, interpreting, and utilizing tests in health and physical education at K-12 levels. This course satisfies the proficiency requirement for Quantitative Literacy in the disciplines.

Adapted physical education with practical application in county school programs for students enrolled in special education. Program planning, psychological needs and characteristics, activities for exceptional children in levels K- 12.

Planning, organization, and administration of recreation programs with emphasis on individual ability to conduct and lead recreation. Applied experience in campus and community.

Basic methods and techniques in teaching driver education. Includes twenty hours of behind-the-wheel instruction.

Selected issues in sports medicine, recreation, and physical education. Topics may be chosen by full-time faculty/staff in the department, in response to student needs.

Total School Health Program, including health instruction, healthful school environment, and school health services. Planning, implementing, and evaluating the school health program. Methods and materials in teaching health education. Health in the community health agencies, and community health services. Prerequisites: Junior status and enrollment in a teacher preparation program, or permission of instructor. 3 credit hours. 

Sport as a microcosm of society and the influences of traditions and values on sport. Psychological influences on participants and spectators. Junior status or departmental permission.

Applied experience in teaching fundamentals and advanced skills using basketball, soccer, racquetball, mass games, fitness, and track and field as models. This course satisfies the proficiency requirement for Oral Communication in the disciplines.

Analysis and evaluation of sport manager responsibilities, including event management, marketing, and facility design. This course satisfies the proficiency requirement for Oral Communication in the disciplines.

Supervised research and independent study in selected areas. Offered to advanced students on individual basis with permission of instructor and department chairperson.

Work experience related to the student's major, jointly supervised by the department and a professional in the field. Although the usual internship will carry either three or six hours credit, a student may elect to arrange an internship carrying between two and six hours credit with the permission of the department. Each hour of credit will require forty hours at the internship site.

Work experience related to the student's major, jointly supervised by the department and a professional in the field. Although the usual internship will carry either three or six hours credit, a student may elect to arrange an internship carrying between two and six hours credit with the permission of the department. Each hour of credit will require forty hours at the internship site.