HPPE Minors
HPPE majors may take an HPPE minor if it is in addition to their degree requirements. Students may not count HPPE credits for both a major and a minor.
Minor in Coaching
The coaching minor in HPPE is designed for those individuals who are not majoring in HPPE but would like to coach at the amateur level, including elementary, junior high, secondary, or post secondary levels.
- HPPE 209: Care/Prevention of Athletic Injuries - 2 HOURS
- HPPE 247: First Aid: CPR, and AED Training - 2 HOURS
- HPPE 301: Sport & Fitness Nutrition - 3 HOURS
- HPPE 327: Tech of Coaching Strength & Conditioning - 3 HOURS
- HPPE 350 Methods of Coaching - 3 HOURS
- HPPE 436: Sport & Exercise Psychology - 3 HOURS
- HPPE 480: Coaching Practicum - 3 HOURS
- TOTAL HOURS: 19
* A coaching practicum is recommended with the minor. It can be accomplished, with the approval of the head of the department, by assisting with an elementary, junior or senior high program, or with a college sport program.
Completion of the practicum will qualify the individual for the Adams State College Coaching Certification. A prerequisite to the practicum is completion of HPPE 320 - 327 Techniques of Coaching in the particular sport in which the practicum will be completed.
Minor in HPPE
A minor in HPPE is available in consultation with the department chair. It generally consists of 18 hours of core HPPE courses. Physical Education activity classes cannot be used to fulfill minor requirements.
Minor in Sports Studies
This minor will examine sport from a socio-cultural perspective. This will necessitate the use of aspects of social science, as they apply to sport, as the analytical vehicle. Sport has long been a major part of our culture and of many other cultures. Students will be required to think critically about the nature of the sport experience and its meaning within a variety of contexts and to a variety of consumers.
As long ago as 1999 Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal estimated that the total annual economic value of the sport industry to the USA economy was $213 billion. This section of our national economy is continuing to grow because of an increasing interest in sport in all its guises from fitness activities that promote health to professional sport and media representations of sport.
Graduates with this minor will be prepared to seek employment in sport management, sport broadcasting and journalism, sport business, sport retail and related sport travel industry. There will be the opportunity for further graduate study in sport management, recreation management, anthropology and sociology to name but a few. This would make a good minor to pair with the major in Sport Psychology.
