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PED 1100 Beginning Swimming     1 QH
Focuses on basic swimming skills for nonswimmers, with emphasis on personal water safety.

PED 1101 Intermediate Swimming     1 QH
Focuses on basic and advanced swimming skills, with emphasis on form and efficiency. Prereq. PED 1100 or equivalent.

PED 1106 Beginning Scuba     2 QH
Focuses on basic skin-diving and scuba-diving skills, with emphasis on safety. Prereq. PED 1101 or equivalent.

PED 1107 Sailing     1 QH
Focuses on basic skills in sailing. Taught at Community Boathouse. Lab fee.

PED 1109 Beginning Gymnastics 1     1 QH
Introduces, in a coeducational approach, basic skills in floor exercise, vaulting, balance beam, parallel bars, uneven bars, high bar, and rings.

PED 1114 Badminton     1 QH
Focuses on basic badminton strokes, concepts, rules, strategies, and game play.

PED 1116 Tennis     1 QH
Focuses on basic tennis strokes, concepts, rules, strategies, and game play.

PED 1124 Beginning Fencing     1 QH
Focuses on the fundamental principles and techniques of fencing at the beginner level.

PED 1131 Yoga     1 QH
Introduces yoga skills and techniques for men and women at the beginning level.

PED 1132 Weight Training     1 QH
Introduces the principles and use of resistive exercises: isotonic exercise (weights), isometric exercise, and the appropriateness of each.

PED 1133 Physical Conditioning     1 QH
Focuses on assessing one's personal physical fitness level, with emphasis on establishing a personal exercise regimen based on scientific principles of training. Utilizes special sections for different mediums of exercise, such as aerobic dance techniques, running, and circuit training.

PED 1134 Aerobic Exercise and Dance     1 QH
Focuses on aerobic fitness, with strong emphasis on concepts of exercise safety and conditioning.

PED 1138 Beginning Skiing     1 QH
Focuses on fundamental techniques of downhill skiing. Lab fee.

PED 1139 Intermediate Skiing     1 QH
Focuses on downhill skiing, including intermediate and advanced techniques. Emphasizes skill development. Lab fee. Prereq. PED 1138 or equivalent.

PED 1140 Basketball     1 QH
Focuses on knowledge and skills appropriate for playing basketball at the beginning level.

PED 1142 Volleyball     1 QH
Focuses on knowledge and skills appropriate for playing volleyball at the beginning level.

PED 1150 Soccer     1 QH
Focuses on knowledge and skills appropriate to play soccer at the beginning level.

PED 1153 Modern Dance 1     1 QH
Introduces modern dance technique and style.

PED 1154 Modern Dance 2     1 QH
Continues PED 1153, with progression to more complex modern dance techniques and combinations. Prereq. PED 1153 or equivalent.

PED 1155 Modern Dance 3     1 QH
Continues PED 1154, with progression into the expressive and choreographic use of modern dance techniques. Prereq. PED 1154 or equivalent.

PED 1156 Ballet 1     1 QH
Introduces ballet fundamentals, with emphasis on alignment.

PED 1157 Ballet 2     1 QH
Continues PED 1156, with emphasis on developing lyrical style. Prereq. PED 1156 or equivalent.

PED 1159 Jazz Dance 1     1 QH
Introduces the fundamentals of jazz dance, with emphasis on alignment.

PED 1160 Jazz Dance 2     1 QH
Continues techniques introduced in PED 1159, with emphasis on developing jazz dance style. Prereq. PED 1159 or equivalent.

PED 1163 Ballroom Dance     1 QH
Introduces traditional and contemporary partner dancing.

PED 1164 Ballroom Dance 2     1 QH
Continues PED 1163 with progression into more complex dance steps, partnering techniques, and amalgamations. Expands upon dances taught in PED 1163 and introduces additional ballroom dances. Prereq. PED 1163.

PED 1167 Beginning Racquetball     1 QH
Focuses on knowledge and skills appropriate to play racquetball at the beginning level.

PED 1180 Health and Physical Education in the Elementary School     4 QH
Focuses on introductory knowledge and skills necessary for teaching health and physical education to elementary school children. Emphasizes the importance of the elementary school years for health promotion and positive health behaviors, motor skill development, the implications of health-related fitness, and activities that maximize participation for children in vigorous activity promoting wellness.

PED 1254 First Aid     2 QH
Focuses on emergency care procedures recommended for home, school, and community, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Emphasizes practices endorsed by the American Red Cross.

PED 1270 Health and Motor Development in Early Childhood     4 QH
Focuses on social, cognitive, and physical aspects influencing health and motor development in preschoolers and across the life span. Emphasizes the importance of the early childhood years for health promotion and positive health behaviors. Studies the development of fundamental motor patterns (walking, running, catching, throwing, striking, climbing, etc.) including perceptual-motor implications. Provides an opportunity to work directly with a preschooler in a laboratory setting observing and assessing fundamental motor patterns and health behaviors.

PED 1286 Nutrition     4 QH
Offers the student the opportunity to learn and evaluate nutrition information both as a consumer and a future educator. Explains the chemical, biological, and physiological bases of nutrition.

PED 1325, PED 1326, PED 1327 Dance Rehearsal and Performance 1, 2, 3     1 QH each
Gives students the opportunity to develop skill in performance. Also allows students to choreograph, stage, and perform an original work or perform in the original work of a guest or faculty choreographer. Prereq. Permission of instructor.

PED 1511 Independent Study 1     1 QH

PED 1512 Independent Study 2     2 QH

PED 1513 Independent Study 3     3 QH

PED 1514 Independent Study 4     4 QH
Provides the student with an opportunity for concentrated planning and research in a topic area of health, sport, or leisure. Requires student to submit outline of proposed study.

PED 1599 Theory of Coaching     4 QH
Provides students with the opportunity to study and analyze learning principles, leadership skills, sociology, and psychology as applied to coaching teams and individuals. Focuses primarily on athletes of junior and senior high school age.

PED 1600 Psychology of Sport     2 QH
Analyzes the psychological behavioral patterns and deviations of sports participants, including spectators and coaches. Emphasizes emotions, motivation, competition, and learning factors. Discusses current sports highlights. Prereq. Physical education major or permission of instructor.

PED 1601 Sociology of Sport     2 QH
Studies sport as a social institution, including theories explaining its role in society. Considers social stratification, politics, economics, violence, women, race, mass media, and competition.

PED 1777 Honors Adjunct     1 QH
To be added to any four-credit course in the department when approved by the Honors Committee of BouvŽ College of Health Sciences. Once approved, the adjunct information is forwarded to the honors office for dissemination to the honors membership. Allows enrollment an unlimited number of times as an adjunct to any health, sport, and leisure studies course at different times during a given academic year.

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