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  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides students with pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies and rules of basketball, team handball, and ultimate frisbee with a tactical focus and structure. Emphasis is placed on skill learning, game tactics and decisions, performance analyses, and progressions. This methods course encompasses teaching methods, class management, formative assessment, and safety appropriate for developmentally appropriate grade levels. Students will complete peer and self-evaluations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies and rules of tennis, badminton, pickle ball, volleyball with a secondary focus on other net sports. Emphasis is placed on tactical-focused skill learning in modified game situations, as well as on performance analysis and instructional progressions and the planning and implementation of developmentally appropriate instructional progressions. This teaching methods course encompasses teaching methods, formative assessment, class management, and reflective assessment after completing teaching opportunities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides the background to develop and adapt lifelong healthy behavioral changes to improve and maintain mental and physical health. Concepts and strategies are taught to address the significant declines in mental and physical health, social connectedness, education, job disruption, and insecurity that may continue to develop during pandemics. This course emphasizes personal health issues and current health concerns with an emphasis on wellness behavior, physical fitness, nutrition awareness, stress management, and substance use and abuse.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to examine sport and its relation to cultural, political, international, and/or global practices. Students will analyze how sports impact societal values and actions around the world. Students study sport as a highly complex global phenomenon because of strong links to culture, lifestyle, religion, tradition, national identity, economy and politics. The class examines the scholarly literature pertaining to international sports in relation to attitudes and cultural performances, fan devotion, sport migrations, and social inequalities globally.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analyze and apply wellness technology trends and wellness practices while emphasizing the domains of wellness theories, concepts, and strategies needed to engage in healthy and active lifestyles. Students will use a variety of trending technological tools to measure domains outcomes, using web, mobile and AI software applications. Students will learn about exercise options and their relevancy to health risk management along with software-based fitness appraisal techniques. A physical activity component is included in the course.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies/tactics and rules of archery, golf, and bowling with a secondary focus on other lifetime sports. Emphasis is placed on tactical-focused skill learning in games and game-like situations. Students will be expected to use developmentally appropriate instructional progressions in their planning and implementation of those plans. This teaching methods course encompasses teaching methods, formative assessment, class management, and reflective assessment after completing teaching opportunities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to fundamental movement patterns, rhythms and dance included in PK-12 school curricula, emphasizing folk, line and square dancing. Students will discover and experience the relationship of aesthetic expression within these movement forms while performing and analyzing a variety of rhythmic and dance activities, including some dances that have been the tradition of many cultures. Emphasis will be placed on the teaching techniques specifically used for these movement patterns and dance focusing on use in grades PK-12 and for adult recreation. This course meets Pennsylvania state standards for physical education teacher education programs and the standards of the Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) necessary for national accreditation by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prepares Health and Physical Education majors to plan, teach, and assess developmentally appropriate movement and physical activity learning experiences in elementary physical education. Students will learn and apply theories and concepts designed for teaching children to move efficiently, engage in sequential learning activities, and value physical activity. Students will engage in clinical teaching experiences as a part of the course. This course meets state and national standards for physical education teacher education programs.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies/tactics and rules of archery, golf, and bowling with a secondary focus on other lifetime sports. Emphasis is placed on tactical-focused skill learning in games and game-like situations. Students will be expected to use developmentally appropriate instructional progressions in their planning and implementation of those plans. This teaching methods course encompasses teaching methods, formative assessment, class management, and reflective assessment after completing teaching opportunities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to introduce and provide opportunities for students to become proficient in basic swimming strokes, personal water safety, and plan appropriate aquatic activities for a school setting. Students will plan lessons and units focusing on stroke development, aquatic fitness, personal safety, and aquatic games. Students will have the opportunity to become certified in American Red Cross WSI, Lifeguarding and/or CPR training.