2025-2026 Course List

Flag/Touch Football, Softball (fast and slow pitch), Soccer, Speedball, Ultimate, Volleyball, Basketball, Team handball.

This course will introduce the field of sports medicine and healthcare careers involved in sports medicine (e.g., athletic trainer, orthopedic surgeon, sports physical therapist, sports orthotist, registered sports dietician, sports medicine physician, certified sport psychologist, licensed psychologist, sports strength and conditioning coach) and will familiarize students with majors and minors that can lead to a career in sports medicine. Students will become familiar with issues that span healthcare professions such as cultural competence, ethics, professionalism, credentialing, patient centered care and interprofessional care delivery. And students will be introduced to resources on campus that can help them accomplish their educational goals.

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation in the sport of racquetball.

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation in the sport of badminton.

Participation and increase skill knowledge through activity in body building, physical conditioning, and aerobics.

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation in the sport of pickleball.

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation in the sport of golf.

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation for the sport of downhill skiing.

Acquaint students with the basic skills and rules of handball.

Acquaint students with advanced skills, strategies, and rules of handball.

Overview of aquatic skills and activities. Basic techniques and practical experience in teaching aquatic skills and activities.

Prerequisites:

Human Performance major or Aquatic emphasis. Ability to swim front crawl, back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke. Developing teaching skills and curriculum.

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation in the sport of curling.

Variable content based on demand. Prereq: varies depending on activity

Prerequisites:

Varies depending on activity

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation in yoga.

Develop basic knowledge and appreciation through participation in the activity of spinning or cycling.

This course will provide majors in the health and physical education program with an overview of historical, philosophical and social perspectives of physical education. Students will develop an understanding of instructional, managerial, and organizational components impacting physical education.

Advanced strokes: butterfly, overarm sidestroke, trudgeon, inverted breaststroke. Competitive strokes and turns. Springboard diving. Aquatic Art. Mask and snorkel skills. Safety/rescue skills. Water exercise. Water polo. Prereq: front crawl, back crawl, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, breaststroke

Prerequisites:

Front crawl, back crawl, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, breaststroke. Spring

The course is designed to give an overview of approximately five sports. Emphasis is placed on the philosophy behind sport officiating. Discussion involves how to get started, organization helpful to officials, learning materials, stipends to be earned, types of equipment and cost.

This course will introduce exercise science and practitioner-based professions (e.g., athletic trainer, biomechanist, chiropractor, exercise physiologist, medical doctor, occupational therapist, personal trainer, physical therapist, physician's assistant, podiatrist, registered dietician, sport psychologist, strength coach). It will acquaint students with opportunities within related majors, minors, and an overview of exercise science and practitioner-based career options. Academic planning for undergraduate programs, in addition to strategies for gaining admission to exercise science and practitioner-based graduate studies programs, will be included.

Examines sport from a social-psychological perspective. To identify and discuss ways in which societal values affect the character of sport and the people involved.

Prerequisites:

SOC 101

Adult fitness, from theory to practice.

Fundamentals of physical education activities focuses on skill performance and analysis in a variety of physical education activities. Majors only. This course must be taken concurrently with HP 201.

Methods, procedures, and philosophy of coaching competitive swimming. Prereq: competitive swimming experience

Prerequisites:

Competitive swimming experience.

Methods and procedures used in coaching. Prereq: wrestling experience or wrestling class

Prerequisites:

Wrestling experience or wrestling class.

Methods and procedures used in coaching volleyball. Prereq: volleyball experience or consent

Prerequisites:

Volleyball experience or consent.