Physical Education - Course Descriptions

PED 502 Teaching Difficult Topics in Health (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.

PED 592 Contemporary Issues in Sport and Exercise (3) This course will enable students to integrate information from their educational experiences to critically examine and analyze contemporary issues in sport and exercise from an interdisciplinary perspective.  Current issues, trends, and challenges will be presented with the intent of provoking thought and stimulating debate so that students may identify their role in the resolution of issues.

PED 593 Emotional Health of Children in Sport (3) This course will help students gain an understanding of the nature of emotional health principles and theory guiding successful youth development. Students will explore the nature of multiple dimensions of participation in sport, including fear, aggression, achievement, stress, parental involvement, drugs and addiction, and relationships. Students will explore various approaches to the resolutions of common issues in youth

PED 594 Program Planning and Evaluation in Health Education (3) This course will introduce students to terminology, theories, models, and tools for planning, implementing and evaluating programs in health education and health promotion.  Students will be introduced to a systematic approach to the planning and evaluation of health education programs, a diagnosis of the social, psychological, educational, and administrative aspects of the health education program, and program monitoring, rigorous methods of impact assessment, and the measurement of efficiency.

PED 601 Physical Training for Youth, Young Adults, and Athletes (3) This course will provide information regarding the 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 regimes will be described and evaluated.

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