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• HPE 132: Martial Arts I

  1.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  This course is designed to introduce students to the martial arts. This course teaches the basic blocks, punches and counters of the martial arts. This course also offers hand-to-hand, self-defense techniques which may save your life.
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• HPE 136: Group Stationary Cycling

  1.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  This course will introduce students to the cardiovascular activity of bicycling. It will improve the aerobic capacity of students by cycling in an indoor group exercise class. The class will also give the student the skills for riding a bicycle safely and within the laws of the road. Topics to be covered include riding within a target heart rate, flat, hill and interval riding, lane riding, traffic laws, trail riding, components of a bicycle and basic mechanical bicycle maintenance.
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• HPE 137: Aerobic Fitness: Walking/Jogging /Running

  1.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Aerobic Fitness: Walking/Jogging/Running is a physical conditioning course that emphasizes cardiovascular fitness through your choice of walking, jogging, running, or a combination of these locomotor skills. This course focuses on the mechanics and development of proper technique, and seeks to increase the student's knowledge of training methods so they may develop their own programs
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• HPE 141: Volleyball

  1.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  This course will introduce the participant to basic and intermediate volleyball skills and strategies. Topics to be covered will include historical background of volleyball, serving, forearm pass, overhead pass, setting, attacking, defensive and offensive formations and officiating principles.
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• HPE 151: Health Promotion, Fitness, and Sports Programming

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  The identification of problems and goals, how goals may be achieved; the problems and practices of family, agency and governmental recreation programs; meeting the needs of modern youth; selection of activities for various age groups in the recreation center and playground situation; advanced planning, promotion, preparation and operation of programs; the development of weekly programs, schedules and special events. (Spring semester only.)
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• HPE 152: Introduction to Physical Education

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Is designed to acquaint the student with the profession. The role of physical education in the educational process. An introduction to the history, philosophy, theory, practice and opportunities for the Physical Educator. (Fall semester only.)
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• HPE 153: Elementary School Physical Education

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  Emphasis is on program planning, teaching, techniques, the direction and participation in elementary Physical Education Activities, and the selection of activities that will help satisfy the needs of the elementary school child. Includes practical experience in school gymnasium. (Spring semester only.)
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• HPE 154: Safety and First Aid

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  This course is designed to prepare the student to recognize that an emergency exists and to prepare the student to make appropriate decisions regarding first aid care and to act on those decisions. The course will also emphasize the importance of a safe and healthy lifestyle. Students will have the option of American Red Cross certification in adult, infant, child CPR, Responding to Emergencies First Aid, and/ or Automated External Defibrillation.
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• HPE 155: Personal Health

  3.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  A study of the meaning and significance of physical; mental and social health as related to the individual and to society stressing the national and personal problems of drugs, alcohol and tobacco, communicable and non-communicable diseases; sexual maturity, and marriage reproduction.
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• HPE 165: Physical Education for Young Children

  1.00 Credits

  Luzerne County Community College

  
  This course will prepare the student to teach basic movement patterns, fitness activities and movement games to young children in a school setting. Using a "hands-on" approach, its focus will be on the development of skills and strategies that allow a teacher to promote lifelong, enjoyable and beneficial involvement in physical activity for young children.
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