Courses
Arts and Letters
Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER)
- HPER-A 361 Coaching of Football (1.5 cr.) Fundamentals of offensive and defensive line and backfield play, outstanding rules, offensive plays, and most frequently used defenses. Includes principles, theories, techniques, and problems of football coaching and coaching psychology.
- HPER-A 362 Coaching of Basketball (1.5 cr.) Fundamentals of basketball shooting, passing, ball handling, and footwork; patterns against man to man, zone, and zone pressure defense. Includes principles, theories, techniques, and problems of basketball coaching and coaching psychology.
- HPER-A 368 Coaching of Tennis (1.5 cr.) Theory and methods of coaching tennis, covering technical, administrative, and organizational aspects involved in the process. Emphasis placed upon principles, fundamentals, tactics, conditioning, psychology, conduct of practice sessions, and problems.
- HPER-C 366 Community Health (3 cr.) Human ecology as it relates to interaction of social and physical phenomena in solving community health problems. Considers the promotion of community health, programs of prevention, environmental health, and health services.
- HPER-E 181 Tennis (1 cr.) Beginning instruction in the fundamental skills of forehand and backhand strokes and serves. Competitive play in women's, men's, and mixed doubles.
- HPER-E 185 Volleyball (1 cr.) Instruction in fundamental skills of power volleyball. Emphasis on overhand serve, bump, set, dig, and spike. Team offensive and defensive strategies included.
- HPER-H 160 First Aid and Emergency Care (2-3 cr.) Lecture and demonstration on first aid measures for wounds, hemorrhage, burns, exposure, sprains, dislocations, fractures, unconscious conditions, suffocation, drowning, and poisons, with skill training in all procedures.
- HPER-H 305 Women's Health (3 cr.) Examines the relationship of women to health and health care. Five dimensions of health: physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual, provide a framework for comparison and contrast of health concerns unique to women and common to both sexes at all ages.
- HPER-H 317 Topical Seminar in Health Education (1-3 cr.) The topical seminars will relate to current issues in the field of health education. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
- HPER-H 363 Personal Health (3 cr.) Acquaints prospective teachers with basic personal health information; provides motivation for intelligent self-direction of health behavior; study of physiological and psychological bases for health, drugs, and other critical issues; and family health.
- HPER-R 271 Dynamics of Outdoor Recreation (3 cr.) Philosophical orientation to the field of outdoor recreation; camping, outdoor education, and natural resource management; with emphasis on programs, trends, resources, and values.
- HPER-R 272 Recreation Activities and Leadership Methods (3 cr.) P: HPER-R 160. Analysis of recreation program activities, objectives, determinants, and group dynamics involved in the leadership process. Identification and evaluation of equipment, supplies, and leadership techniques are included.
- HPER-R 317 Seminar in Recreation and Parks (1-3 cr.) Park and recreation current issues seminar. Topic varies with the instructor and year. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.
- HPER-R 324 Recreational Sports Programming (3 cr.) Overview of programmatic elements and techniques in recreational sports. Topics include informal, intramural, club, and extramural programming; values of recreational sports, programming techniques, publicity and promotion; faculty utilization, equipment, safety, liability, and program observation.
- HPER-R 398 Practicum in Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies (1-6 cr.) Students earn practical field experience under faculty supervision and with seminar discussions with professionals in the field of recreation. Course is designed for future recreation and sports specialists. Repetable for credit.
- HPER-R 399 Readings in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Studies (1-3 cr.) P: Consent of Intructor/Department Coordinaotor Selected readings in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism studies. Only S/F grades given. Repeatable for Credit
- HPER-R 160 Foundations of Recreation and Leisure (3 cr.) An introduction to the field of recreation and leisure from the viewpoint of the individual as a consumer and of societal agencies as providers of leisure services. Includes philosophy, history, theory, and survey of public and private leisure-service organizations.
