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Health and Sport Studies Courses
| 028:020 Alcohol and Your College Experience |
1 s.h. |
| Patterns of alcohol, drug use focused on college years; strategies for monitoring use, behavioral change plans for implementing lower-risk drinking practices; for drinkers and non-drinkers. GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 028:021 Tobacco and Your College Experience |
1 s.h. |
| Current behavior change theories related to tobacco use, cessation; nicotine replacement therapies (NRT), non-NRT methods; triggers, relapse prevention, cognitive behavioral skills, support systems; for smokers and non-smokers. GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 028:022 Resiliency and Your College Experience |
1 s.h. |
| Resiliency and psychological hardiness theories relevant to college life; resiliency and ability to cope with challenges; components of psychological fitness; skills for personal growth and emotional well-being. GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 028:029 First-Year Seminar |
1-2 s.h. |
| Small discussion class taught by a faculty member; topics chosen by instructor; may include outside activities (e.g., films, lectures, performances, readings, visits to research facilities). Prerequisite: first- or second-semester standing. |
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| 028:030 Principles of an Exercise Class |
2 s.h. |
| Exercise standards, guidelines for aerobic/exercise instructors; aerobic workout components, contraindicated exercises, injury prevention and treatment. |
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| 028:031 Health-Related Muscular Fitness |
2 s.h. |
| Educational and practical experience for designing resistance training and flexibility programs; competencies for certification with National Strength and Conditioning Association. |
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| 028:032 First Aid and CPR |
2 s.h. |
| Leads to American Red Cross first aid and adult CPR certifications. |
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| 028:034 First Aid and CPR for Instructors |
2 s.h. |
| Preparation for American Red Cross first aid and adult CPR instructor certification. Prerequisite: first aid and CPR certificate. |
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| 028:035 Stress Management |
2 s.h. |
| Stress, the stress response; causes and consequences, management. GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 028:036 Physical Activity Through the Life Span |
3 s.h. |
| Physical activity determinants in society; school, workplace, community-based health promotion interventions to improve activity levels; practicum experiences. GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 028:038 Understanding Food and Nutrition |
3 s.h. |
| Physiology, biochemistry of human nutrition; appropriate food sources; qualitative and quantitative evaluation of diets using standard references. Prerequisite: health and sport studies major. |
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| 028:074 Inequality in Sport |
3 s.h. |
| Sport experiences, barriers to participation based on sexism, racism, classism, ageism, heterosexualism. Prerequisite: health and sport studies major. |
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| 028:075 Health in Everyday Life |
3 s.h. |
| Personal health strategies; focus on disease prevention, wellness. |
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| 028:076 Psychological Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity |
3 s.h. |
| Psychological theory and research related to sport and physical activity; motivation, aggression, attribution, socialization, competitive anxiety, leadership. |
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| 028:077 Understanding Peak Performance in Sport |
2 s.h. |
| Concepts that underlie peak performance; hands-on experience through lecture/discussion, overnight assignments, activities; understanding of how to achieve peak performance in sport and physical activity, other areas of life. |
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| 028:078 Women, Sport, and Culture |
3 s.h. |
| Feminist analysis of girls' and women's sport experiences; reproduction of gender through sport, recent changes in women's intercollegiate athletics, media representations of women in sport, feminist critiques, alternatives to sport. Same as 131:078. |
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| 028:079 Race and Ethnicity in Sport |
3 s.h. |
| Structural and ideological barriers to racial and ethnic equality in sport, with focus on African American sport experiences; historical and contemporary issues, media representations. Same as 129:079. |
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| 028:132 Fitness/Sport Nutrition |
3 s.h. |
| Relationship between nutrition, fitness and sport performance; basic nutrition, physiology, chemistry, psychology, food preparation. Prerequisites: 028:038 and health and sport studies major. |
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| 028:133 Nutrition Through the Life Span |
3 s.h. |
| How body processes and nutritional needs change with age and the physiological state; effects of food-drug-medication interactions, anorexia, bulimia, and adolescent pregnancy; emphasis on food and health habits that minimize nutrition-related problems. Prerequisites: 028:038 and health and sport studies major. Same as 153:133. |
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| 028:134 Nutrition Intervention |
3 s.h. |
| Strategies for meeting unique nutritional needs of individuals with limitations imposed by genetics, trauma, aging, medications, and so forth. Prerequisites: 028:038 and health and sport studies major. |
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| 028:138 Exercise Testing and Prescription |
4 s.h. |
| Basic techniques in physical fitness assessment, prescription of exercise for healthy and unhealthy adults, promotion of physical activity within communities; provides knowledge and skill competencies required for certification as American College of Sports Medicine health fitness instructor. Prerequisites: 027:140 and admission to health promotion program. |
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| 028:141 Health Promotion Theory and Practice |
3 s.h. |
| Principles of epidemiology and health behavior theories applied to multilevel frameworks for health promotion. Prerequisite: 028:075. |
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| 028:142 Worksite Health Promotion |
3 s.h. |
| Management and organizational theories; assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical and work-setting (targeted) health promotion programs. |
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| 028:143 Health Communications Programming |
3 s.h. |
| Development, implementation, evaluation of effective health communication interventions; identification of health education resources for targeted groups. Prerequisite: 028:075. |
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| 028:144 Peer Health Education |
2 s.h. |
| Experience acting as a peer educator, assisting students in their residential areas, presenting educational outreach programs on health topics, making referrals to campus and area agencies. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:145 Health Promotion Processes |
3 s.h. |
| Assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs. Prerequisite: 028:141. |
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| 028:146 Seminar: Health Education Specialist |
2 s.h. |
| Development or refinement of competencies related to the seven professional responsibility areas of health educators; preparation for attainment of Certified Health Education Specialist (C.H.E.S.) credentials. |
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| 028:147 Promoting Health Globally |
2 s.h. |
| Major global health threats in the United States and abroad; impact of culture, history, economics on health disparities; approaches, programs, policies to remedy them. Same as 152:158. |
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| 028:148 Practicum in Health Promotion |
1-2 s.h. |
| Experience in planning, implementing clinical and community health promotion strategies including nutrition, physical fitness, cardiac rehabilitation, respiratory rehabilitation. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:166 Exercise for Special Populations |
1 s.h. |
| Laboratory experiences in development and implementation of exercise testing and prescription for special populations, including children, elders, and individuals with chronic diseases. Pre- or corequisite: 028:138. Same as 153:166. |
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| 028:175 Sport and the Media |
3 s.h. |
| Representations of sport in television, the press, fiction, films, biographies, adolescent fiction. |
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| 028:176 Sport and Nationalism |
3 s.h. |
| Role of sport in the phenomenon of nationalism; selected theories; case studies on Ireland, Australia, British West Indies, Cold War U.S., fascist Europe. |
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| 028:177 Western World Sport: Greeks to Present |
3 s.h. |
| Development of Western sport; relation to social, political, economic, intellectual factors. |
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| 028:178 Sport in the U.S. to 1900 |
3 s.h. |
| Growth and institutionalization of sport from colonial times to 1900. |
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| 028:179 The American Vacation |
3 s.h. |
| Social history of vacations; cultural significance of contemporary patterns; focus on how experiences and meanings are shaped by race, class, gender. Same as 045:174. |
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| 028:180 Theory and Ethics of Coaching |
3 s.h. |
| Philosophical bases, ethical issues; theoretical, practical applications. |
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| 028:188 Twentieth-Century U.S. Sport |
3 s.h. |
| Historic development of sport in the United States since 1900; economic forces, professional football and baseball. Prerequisite: 028:178. |
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| 028:190 Preinternship Seminar |
1 s.h. |
| Preparation for internship experience. |
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| 028:191 Internship |
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| Directed practical field experience; program planning, implementation, evaluation, administrative procedures. Prerequisites: 028:190 and consent of instructor. |
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| 028:193 Independent Study |
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| Problem in a specific area. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:194 Honors Readings |
1-2 s.h. |
| Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:195 Honors Problems |
3-4 s.h. |
| Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:198 Topics |
1-3 s.h. |
| Sport studies or health promotion topics. |
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| 028:202 Critical Perspectives |
3 s.h. |
| Application of critical theories to cultural meanings and issues of sport, health, physical activity. |
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| 028:204 Research Methodologies |
3 s.h. |
| Design, interpretation of research; emphasis on quantitative approaches. |
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| 028:235 Stress Management |
2-3 s.h. |
| Stress and the stress response; causes and consequences; management strategies. |
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| 028:243 Planning and Evaluating Health Interventions |
3 s.h. |
| Theoretical and applied aspects of planning and evaluating health interventions in multiple settings, including culturally relevant programming. |
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| 028:244 Seminar in Health and Physical Activity Behavior |
3 s.h. |
| Health behavior theories and their relevance to individual, interpersonal, and community-wide health promotion interventions. |
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| 028:249 Epidemiology of Physical Activity |
3 s.h. |
| Physical activity/disease relationships examined through application of epidemiologic methods, including research design, interpretation of studies, selection of measures to fit research questions. Same as 173:245. |
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| 028:250 Marketing, Finance, and Entrepreneurship |
3 s.h. |
| Economic practices, marketing research, promotional programs, financing strategies, entrepreneurship related to collegiate athletics. |
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| 028:256 Governance and Policy Issues in Sport |
3 s.h. |
| Institutional, conference, national, and international issues in sport and sport governance; focus on gender equity, Title IX. |
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| 028:270 Social Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity |
3 s.h. |
| Theoretical and applied bases of social psychology of sport and exercise; motivation, arousal, group processes related to sport, physical activity. |
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| 028:274 Philosophy of Sport |
3 s.h. |
| The meaning of sport as human experience; ethical, aesthetic dimensions. |
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| 028:276 Sport in U.S. Culture |
3 s.h. |
| Sport as cultural form; relationship to ideology and practice in economics, politics, education, the family, the media. |
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| 028:278 History of Women in Sports |
3 s.h. |
| Women's sport involvement from ancient times to present; focus on social class, attitudes, religion, race, ethnicity, medical opinion, economic considerations, political events, educational philosophies that have influenced women's sport participation. Same as 131:254. |
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| 028:279 Sport and the African American Experience |
3 s.h. |
| Intersection of African American sport experiences and larger sporting culture; political, economic, social forces; effects of urbanization, rise of the modern city. |
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| 028:290 Graduate Internship |
1-4 s.h. |
| Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:291 Problems |
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| Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:292 Practicum in College Teaching |
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| 028:294 Practicum: Athletics Administration |
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| 028:298 Graduate Topics |
1-3 s.h. |
| Sport studies or psychology of sport and physical activity topics. |
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| 028:299 Graduate Research Problems |
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| Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:300 Research Colloquium |
0-1 s.h. |
| Research issues, current research projects of departmental faculty, graduate students. Repeatable. |
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| 028:370 Seminar in Sport Psychology |
3 s.h. |
| Current theory, research; applied sport psychology techniques. Repeatable. Prerequisite: 028:270. |
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| 028:372 Selected Issues in Sport Psychology |
3 s.h. |
| Current directions in theoretical and applied sport psychology literature. Repeatable. Prerequisite: 028:270. |
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| 028:374 Seminar in Sport History |
3 s.h. |
| Repeatable. |
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| 028:375 Cultural Analyses of Sport |
3 s.h. |
| Analytical strategies for studying sport; quantitative, qualitative techniques; materialist, feminist, cultural studies approaches. Repeatable. Prerequisite: 028:276 or consent of instructor. |
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| 028:378 Seminar in Cultural Studies of Sport |
3 s.h. |
| Current theoretical debates in sociology of sport; applications of cultural studies to critical analysis of sport. Repeatable. Prerequisite: 028:276 or consent of instructor. |
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| 028:386 Intercollegiate Athletics |
3 s.h. |
| Organization and administration of a Division I intercollegiate athletic program; current issues, problems. |
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| 028:398 Thesis: M.A. |
1-6 s.h. |
| Repeatable. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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| 028:399 Thesis: Ph.D. |
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| Repeatable. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
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Physical Education Skills All Physical Education Skills courses are approved as an option in the distributed general education portion of the General Education Program.
| 28S:006 Core Strengthening |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:007 Aerobics: Low Impact |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:008 Aerobics: High Impact |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:009 Aquatic Exercise |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:011 Badminton I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:020 Fitness Walking |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:021 Flexibility |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:023 Golf |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:025 Hatha Yoga |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:029 Jogging I: Beginners |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:030 Jogging II |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:031 Karate I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:032 Karate II |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:031 or consent of instructor. |
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| 28S:033 Kick Boxing I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:037 Lap Swimming I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:064 or consent of instructor. |
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| 28S:038 Lap Swimming II |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:037 or consent of instructor. |
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| 28S:042 Personal Fitness |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:043 Pilates |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:045 Racquetball I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:047 Relaxation Techniques |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:049 Sand Volleyball |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:052 Self Defense |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:053 Slow-Pitch Softball I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:055 Soccer I: Outdoor |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:056 Soccer II: Outdoor |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:055 or consent of instructor. |
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| 28S:057 Soccer: Indoor |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:058 Speed Walking |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:059 Spinning |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:061 Resistance Training |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:063 Swimming I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:064 Swimming II |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:063 or consent of instructor. |
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| 28S:066 Table Tennis |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:071 Tennis I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:072 Tennis II |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:071 or consent of instructor. |
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| 28S:075 Ultimate Frisbee |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:077 Volleyball I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:078 Volleyball II |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:077 or consent of instructor. |
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| 28S:079 Weight Control |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:081 Weight Training I |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. |
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| 28S:082 Weight Training II |
1 s.h. |
| GE: health and physical activity. Prerequisite: 28S:081 or consent of instructor. |
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