Health and 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.

Preventive measures emphasizing proper conditioning, safe equipment, and facilities. Physiological and anatomical analysis. Practical experience dealing with wraps, taping, therapeutic techniques, and rehabilitative exercises. 

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.

Organ level approach to structure and function of human systems; laboratory emphasis on physiology of exercise. Recommended for Health and Human Performance majors. 

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. The corresponding CORE 240 course, offered every other year, satisfies the Global Citizenship/Study Abroad requirement. 

Techniques of selecting, constructing, administering, scoring, interpreting, and utilizing tests in health and physical education at K-12 levels.

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. 

Sport as a microcosm of society and the influences of traditions and values on sport. Psychological influences on participants and spectators. 

Applied experience in teaching fundamentals and advanced skills using basketball, soccer, racquetball, mass games, fitness, and track and field as models. 

Analysis and evaluation of sport manager responsibilities, including event management, marketing, and facility design. 

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.