Health, Physical Education, and Recreation

Degrees and Certificates

Courses

HPER 100: Concepts of Wellness and Fitness

Credits 2.0

A course designed for students of all ages that teaches fact about exercise and physical fitness. This course if designed to teach the student the role of physical activity in maintaining adequate health and improving quality of life. Also, how to asses, develop and implement a complete lifetime fitness and wellness program and its components. The course is designed to incorporate these ideas through lecture and activity.

HPER 101: Activity - Canoeing

Credits 0.5
This course enables students to learn the basic techniques of canoeing. The class will include canoeing at one of the local lakes.

HPER 101: Activity - Golf

Credits 0.5
This course will include basic swing instruction, course etiquette, and participation at the local country club.

HPER 101: Activity - Running

Credits 0.5
This is an activity course designed to help participants learn about the benefits of running, explain how running can be a part of a safe and realistic fitness plan, and discuss how to maintain or improve their fitness level by running.

HPER 101: Activity - Weight Training

Credits 0.5
This introductory course teaches students the importance of a weight training program, weight room safety, etiquette, and lifelong fitness.

HPER 101: Activity - Walking

Credits 0.5

The purpose of this class is to assist the student in the improvement of their cardiovascular fitness through walking.

HPER 102: Activity - Martial Arts

Credits 1.0
This course is a study of Martial Science. Taijutsu means “body technique” and is a term used to refer to the body dynamics or body mechanics of a self-defense technique. It is used to refer to the entire technique itself. Taijutsu can be divided into dakentaijutsu, or striking techniques, and jutaijutsu, grappling techniques. Martial Science is the study of these techniques and the principals and dynamics that make them work.

HPER 110: Sports Officiating

Credits 1.0
This course will acquaint students with the rules, qualifications, ethics, techniques, conduct, proper signals, and appearance in officiating various sports. Students earning credit in the class and passing the appropriate rules test will become apprentice officials in that sport.

HPER 115: Introduction to Coaching

Credits 3.0

This course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and practices of coaching sports. Students will explore the roles and responsibilities of a coach, including leadership, communication, athlete development, practice planning, and game management. Emphasis is placed on creating a positive sport environment that promotes skill development, teamwork, sportsmanship, and lifelong participation in physical activity. Additional topics may include safety and injury prevention, ethical coaching practices, and the physical, psychological, and social development of athletes. This course is designed for individuals interested in coaching at the youth, middle school, high school level, and beyond.

HPER 205: Physical Education for Elementary Children

Credits 2.0
A study of the elementary school physical education program with emphasis on the content, purposes, and techniques of an elementary program. Students will observe and critique elementary physical education classes as well as develop and instruct an elementary physical education unit.

HPER 207: Prevention and Care of Injuries

Credits 2.0
This course will acquaint the student with the field of athletic training, its attendant administrative problems and the type of scientific knowledge and duties necessary for instituting a program of injury management. It will include information on the cause of injury, the basis for training and conditioning and injury prevention, the psychogenetic and metabolic factors in sports, bandaging techniques, first aid operational and organizational procedures related to staff relationships, legal implications, budgeting, record keeping and insurance.

HPER 210: First Aid/CPR

Credits 1.0
First aid basics, CPR and AED instruction with hands-on practice in accordance with the American Heart Association guidelines. Certification cards for Heart saver first aid and CPR/AED will be issued upon successful completion of the course.

HPER 213: Taping and Bracing

Credits 2.0
Taping and Bracing will focus on the stabilizing procedures used to assist in the healing process of athletic injuries. A hands-on approach will be used throughout the course.

HPER 217: Personal and Community Health

Credits 3.0
A course designed to acquaint the student with those principles and practices which will ensure the maintenance of conditions necessary for wholesome personal and community living. Economic, social, and legal aspects of health preservation and disease prevention will be emphasized.

HPER 224: Intramural Sports Administration

Credits 2.0
This course will include theories of intramural sports management, tournament development and activities planning. Students will benefit from hands-on experience by managing the fall/spring intramural season.

HPER 225: Intramural Sports Administration

Credits 2.0
This course will include theories of intramural sports management, tournament development and activities planning. Students will benefit from hands-on experience by managing the fall/spring intramural season.

HPER 297: Internship

Credits 1.0 6.0

An Internship is required in most AAS and some certificate programs. This course is available to AA and AS students as well. The students combine course learning with practical, professional work experience in their chosen field of study. The employer does an evaluation of the work experience; the faculty advisor supervises the students; the students are required to complete a project assigned by the faculty advisor.  A minimum of 40 hrs of work is required to earn one credit.  A grade of satisfactory/unsatisfactory is given by the faculty. The prefix for this course will be determined by the instructor.