HPEA-120: Lifetime Fitness

School
Health and Human Services
Division
Fitness & Wellness
Department
Fitness Leadership
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Health & Physical Education
Course Number
120
Course Title
Lifetime Fitness
Credit Hours
2.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
32.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
32.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Catalog Course Description

Offers a rotating body conditioning method that allows for greater efficiency and ease of movement, strength, flexibility and muscle endurance, thereby helping to prevent chronic pain. Also provides information on overall body care and control through knowledge and practice of healthy lifestyle choices in terms of diet, exercise, weight management, and disease and injury prevention.

Goals, Topics, and Objectives

Goal Statement

To help students learn and use the skills of the body conditioning program to gain strength, endurance, flexibility and movement efficiency.

Core Course Topics
  1. Introduction to the program/body conditioning/technique.
  2. Demonstration.
    1. Skill development
    2. Name of the exercise
    3. Purpose of each exercise
  3. Anatomy and kinesiology.
    1. Bone and muscle anatomy
    2. Biomechanics of movement
  4. Perspective of overall health.
    1. Diet and its effect on body composition
    2. Stress and its effect on disease and mental/emotional health
    3. Definition of the five health related fitness components
    4. Healthy lifestyle choices
Core Course Learning Objectives (Separated)
  1. Demonstrate the basic method and skills of the given program.
  2. Identify various exercises by name when demonstrated.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of overall body care and control through a healthy diet, injury prevention and care, weight management, stress management, disease prevention, and other healthy lifestyle behaviors.
  4. Show understanding of how diet, stress, and lifestyle choices play key roles in overall health.
  5. Show basic understanding of skeletal-muscular anatomy and kinesiological function.

Assessment and Requirements

Assessment of Academic Achievement
  1. Skill testing
  2. Written exams
  3. Assignments
  4. In class participation
Texts

To be determined by the instructor.

Outcomes

Satisfies Wellness Requirement
Yes

Credit for Prior College-Level Learning

Options for Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Other
Other Details

Determined by department.

Approval Dates

Effective Term
Fall 2019
ILT Approval Date
AALC Approval Date
Curriculum Committee Approval Date
Review Semester
Fall 2019