Experiential Learning and Methods of Teaching Outdoor Activities
PHEC-472
Average GPA: 3.55
Withdraw Rate: 12%
Total Enrollment: 171
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3 hours credit Introduces students to experiential, adventure-based education. Study and practice principles and theories of leadership education within a cooperative learning approach.
Introduction to the historical and philosophical foundations of physical education, fitness and sport. Includes instructional and self-assessment strategies in preparation for engagement in professional practice.
Provides information, strategies and resources to assist future physical educators or related professionals to lead health-related fitness activity. Engage in the application of health-related activities through planning and implementing such activities in small and large peer group applications, including individual and group exercise, strength training and aquatics.
Introduction designed to assist pre-service physical educators in identifying the connections between curricular concepts and movement education on the basis of national standards specific to grades K-5. Content includes the lesson planning and teaching of movement concepts, integrated lessons, and movement education enhanced by technology and applied in authentic settings.
Overview of a variety of teaching methods for how to teach individual and dual activities and sports, at game stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 using different curriculum models. Emphasis is on the knowledge and competencies that prepare students to become effective teachers of physical activities.
A continuation of the application of fundamental skills and teaching progressions for game concepts and tactics in the field and court category. Emphasis on sequential development of tactical complexity including offensive and defensive strategies.
Study of motor skill performance and learning. Topics include information processing, motor programs, individual differences, transfer, practice organization and feedback. Credit may not be received for both PHED 352 and 255.
An introduction to seminal texts, central questions and rival traditions in the philosophy of education. Works from main authors in Wester philosophy are read to address questions about education and schooling as dimensions of human life. Develop an appreciation of the role of philosophy for personal and communal growth, and to form one's own philosophy of education. This course has a civic engagement component.
Mind, Language and World: Themes In Analytical Philosophy
PHIL-307
Average GPA: 2.49
Withdraw Rate: 10%
Total Enrollment: 52
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Examines the relationship between the mind and the world and the role of language within this relationship. Some typical questions that form the topic of discussion are "What is the mind?", "Can (some) machines think?", "How does the mind represent the world?", "How does language refer to the world?" and "Is it possible to have thought without language?"
Examines the theoretical basis of several traditions which define women as "other" or "special" or "different from" the human standard (male), along with some of the social and personal consequences this has. Also looks at contemporary redefinitions of what it is to be female/male/human and the rights and obligations that logically follow from legal and social recognition of woman's full humanity.
Promotes understanding of religious experience by focusing on a variety of its aspects, such as worship, prayer, vocation, mysticism, secularity and the encounter with evil.
Examines the foundations and nature of morality. A study of metaethical and normative ethical questions, such as: Are claims about morals objective? If so, what makes them so? Are there general principles or rules that we should follow? Or is morality best understood in terms of virtues?
Survey of modern astronomy for non-science majors. Basic physics concepts are utilized to study the night sky, light, optics and telescopes, planets, the moon and sun, stars nebulae, galaxies and the universe. Some night observations required.
Survey of basic principles of electric circuits and modern electronics. Topics include AC and DC circuits, Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, transient analysis, power supplies, diodes and transistors, operational amplifiers and an introduction to circuit simulation programs.
Survey of physics concepts developed since 1880. Topics include blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, special relativity, quantization, uncertainty principle and introductory atomic, nuclear and solid state physics.
