DCB catalog 2024-25

131 HPER 101 Activity – Martial Arts (1CR) Spring. Pre: None 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 101 Activity – Running (.5CR) Fall, Spring. Pre: None 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 – Walking (.5CR) Fall, Spring. Pre: None The purpose of this class is to assist the student in the improvement of their cardiovascular fitness through walking. HPER 101 Activity – Weight Training (.5CR) Fall. Pre: None This introductory course teaches students the importance of a weight training program, weight room safety, etiquette, and lifelong fitness. HPER 110 Sports Officiating – Fall (1CR) Fall. Pre: None 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 150 Varsity Athletics – Freshman (1CR) Fall. Pre: None HPER 151 Varsity Athletics – Freshman (1CR) Spring. Pre: None This course requires first year active participation in a varsity sport. The varsity sports for which students may register during the fall semester are volleyball, hockey, and basketball. Students in varsity sports may register for hockey, baseball, basketball, fastpitch softball and clay target shooting during the spring semester. HPER 205 Physical Education for Elementary Children (2CR) Spring. Pre: None 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 (2CR) Spring. Pre: HPER 210 or Instructor Approval 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 208 Introduction to Physical Education (2CR) Spring. Pre: None The nature and scope of physical education and sports by means of a critical examination of sports, play, exercise, coaching, and social issues dealing with sports.