PE Theory Courses
Creating a lifestyle that promotes personal health and well-being. Includes wellness
concepts and theory with special emphasis on stress management and relaxation training,
nutrition and fitness, addictive behaviors, human sexuality, and the ability to analyze
the validity of health news and information sources.
Online course emphasizing the relationship between course content and lifestyle choices.
Includes physical fitness, nutrition, weight management, stress and emotional health,
chemical use and abuse, communicable and noncommunicable disease, health-smart consumerism,
the health-care system, aging, death and dying, and environmental health issues.
Covers advanced first aid and emergency care procedures, including American Red Cross
requirements for certification cards. Lecture and hands-on training including CPR/AED,
splinting, bandaging and dealing with sudden illness or injury to the body. Includes
Basic Life Support for Health-Care Providers.
Provide a practical application of athletic training knowledge and skills in the
training room setting. Students will assist the ATC in serving the student athletes
for WVC men's and women's athletic teams. PEH 189 is intended for the first-year student
athletic trainer. This course can be repeated for credit for working different sports
seasons. Prerequisites: PEH 287, or high school sports medicine experience (instructor
signature needed for HS option).
Define the basic nutritional needs of the human body and how to achieve them for
optimum health. Nutrition considerations for sports and exercise will be examined
in depth.
Introduces the essential principles of fitness and exercise and is intended to be
one of the first steps in the preparation of individuals as fitness professionals.
Provides the fundamental theories, applications and personal experiences necessary
for a comprehensive understanding of fitness as a profession and as a lifestyle.
Designed to provide an introduction to physical education as a profession. This course
serves as an introduction to all fields of physical education including teaching,
coaching, sports and fitness management, athletic training/sports medicine, and various
others.
Investigates the relationship between physical activity and physiological processes.
Emphasis will be placed on the body's adaptation to strength training, cardiovascular
endurance and neurological adaptations.
An introductory course to the field of athletic training. Will introduce prevention
and care of athletic injuries and illnesses. Emphasis is placed on managing and preventing
injuries common to an active lifestyle, including acute and overuse injuries.
Study of the musculoskeletal structure of the living human body, bones and their
articulation, segments and their movements, muscles and their attachments and actions,
and systemic nerves and their innervations and function. Special emphasis is placed
on musculoskeletal analysis of basic exercises and movement patterns.
Provide a practical application of athletic training knowledge and skills in the
training room setting. Students will assist the ATC in serving the student athletic
athletes for WVC men's and women's athletic teams. PEH 289 is intended for the advanced
student athletic trainer. This course can be repeated for credit for working different
sports seasons. Prerequisites: PEH 287 and instructor's signature only.