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502 Teaching Strategies for Socially Sensitive Health Issues (3)
This course will introduce and provide an opportunity to practice pedagogical approaches for health topics historically challenging to teach children in grades K-12. The basis for understanding behavioral, environmental, and political influences on health education in the school system will be addressed.

592 Contemporary Issues in Sport and Exercise (3)
This course enables students to integrate information from their educational experiences to examine and analyze contemporary issues in sport and exercise from an interdisciplinary perspective. Current issues, controversies, and future trends in sport/exercise are to be critically discussed and debated through active class participation. Students will develop individual positions/opinions about issues being critiqued and identify their role in the resolution of those issues.

593 Emotional Health of Children in Sport (3)
A study of emotional health, principles and theory related to successful emotional development. Involves exploration of healthy sport participation and the role adult leaders play in youth development. Topics include fear, aggression, achievement, parental involvement, stress, drugs, and relationships.

601 Physical Training for Optimal Performance (3) This course will provide information regarding the methodologies and results of aerobic and anaerobic physical training in various internal and environmental physical conditions, for young, middle-aged and elderly men and women. The basis for training under certain nutritional, psychological, and physical regimens will be described and evaluated.

602 has changed to PED 502



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