HPPE Undergraduate Course Offerings
HPPE 100 Foundations of Physical Education (2)
Acquaints freshman majors and minors with the origin, scope, development, and purpose of the teacher training program in health and physical education.
HPPE 105 Beginning Swimming (1)
This is a beginning swimming course designed to teach and access the fundamental skills and the five basic strokes of swimming. Students demonstrating proficiency in these five basic strokes will be allowed to test out of this course.
HPPE 120 Concepts in Wellness (2)
A general education course designed to instruct students in higher levels of health and fitness; a process enabling them to live their lives to the fullest.
HPPE 130 Teaching Individual/Dual Activities (2)
This course is designed for HPPE majors with in the teaching emphasis. It will educate these majors in the basic skills, lead-up activities, and patterns of motor performance needed to successfully participate in and ultimately teach a variety of individual and dual activities.
HPPE 209 Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries (2)
Understanding the care and prevention of athletic injuries, including the evaluation, nature, types, and functions of various rehabilitation programs.
HPPE 226 Exercise Physiology (3)
Prerequisite: BIOL 112
Introduction and overview of the physiological basis of physical education and athletics. The effects of exercise on the various systems will be considered. Practical application of exercise science to physical fitness and athletic performance will be emphasized.
HPPE 230 Teaching Team Activities (3)
This course is designed for HPPE majors with in the teaching emphasis. It will educate these majors in the basic skills, lead-up activities, and patterns of motor performance needed to successfully participate in and ultimately teach a variety of team activities.
HPPE 247 First Aid, CPR, and AED Training (2)
Practical and accepted first aid methods and techniques stressing diagnosis and treatment of injuries caused by common accidents. This course covers practical and accepted first aid methods and techniques stressing evaluation and treatment of injuries caused by common accidents. Certification in Community First Aid and Safety, CPR, Profession Rescuer, Automated External Defibrillator and Oxygen Administration upon successful skill completion.
HPPE 260 Tests and Measurements (3)
This course will expose student to the theories of measurement in health and physical education and the interpretation of test results by fundamental statistical procedures.
HPPE 300 Promoting a Healthy and Safe Environment (3)
In this course licensure candidate students will receive instruction in such areas as conflict resolution and mediation, empathy and compassion, non-violent restraint training, child health and nutritional concerns, crisis intervention, basic first aid and CPR, and emergency protocol as they relate to developing safe and healthy school atmospheres.
HPPE 301 Sport and Fitness Nutrition (3)
This course will present a review of basic nutrition and then explore the areas of sport and fitness nutrition, supplementation, sport drug abuse, weight loss diets, eating disorders, weight gain nutrition, and the metabolic nutritional requirements of various sports and fitness activities.
HPPE 310 Dance Fundamentals - K-12 (2)
Methods of teaching creative rhythmic activities, folk, square, and social dance - elementary and secondary.
HPPE 311 Methods of Teaching Health Education (3)
Gives the prospective teacher a foundation in school health education, elementary through secondary, including methods and materials for health instruction, promotion of healthful living, and understanding of the health service program.
HPPE 312 Methods of Teaching Elementary PE (2)
Theory and techniques of elementary school physical education activities based on a study of the Psychological and physiological needs of children at various age levels.
HPPE 314 Health Promotion (3)
This course examines the factors that influence a healthy society; heredity, environment, health care services, and lifestyle choices.
HPPE 315 Physical Education in Elementary School (3)
Prerequisites: HPPE 130, 230, 312
The purpose of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of learning theories, a variety of techniques and methods of teaching elementary physical education, experience in the planning and development of lessons and practical experience in working with elementary physical education students in organized experience in a public school. A twenty (20) hour, preprofessional, supervised, field-based experience is a course requirement. A professional field experience reflection journal will be required as part of the final test.
HPPE 316 Methods of Teaching Secondary PE (2)
Prerequisites: HPPE 130, 230
This course is designed to introduce pre-professional secondary physical education students to the secondary teaching process. The focus of this course is on the organizational or “content” behaviors necessary to become an effective secondary physical educator. Emphasis will be placed on lesson preparation, systematic presentation of information and material presentation development for individual and dual sports and activities. A twenty (20) hour, supervised, field based experience along with a professional portfolio, reflective journal, and activity file will be required for all students in this course.
HPPE 317 Physical Education in Secondary School (3)
Prerequisite: HPPE 316
This course is designed to allow pre-professional secondary physical education students to continue to develop their skills within the secondary teaching process. The focus of this course is on the organizational or “content” behaviors necessary to become an effective secondary physical educator. Emphasis will be placed on teaching movement concepts, extending and refining motor tasks and providing instructional feedback in team sport activities. A twenty (20) hour, supervised, field based experience along with a professional portfolio, reflective journal, and activity file will be required for all students in this course.
HPPE 320-326 Techniques of Coaching and Officiating (3 each)
Coaching and training of athletic teams. Special emphasis on recent trends and systems, offensive and defensive play, and fundamentals of individual skills and play. A study and practicum of the rules and mechanics of officiating the particular sport. 320 Basketball; 321 Football; 322 Gymnastics Soccer; 323 Softball; 324 Track and Field; 325 Volleyball; 326 Wrestling.
HPPE 327 Techniques of Coaching Strength/Conditioning (3)
This course is designed to provide information relative to the foundation of coaching sport conditioning including muscle physiology, bioenergetics, training methodology, exercise technique, program design, and facility management.
HPPE 340 Kinesiology (3)
Prerequisites: Biol 112 or 105 and HPPE 226
Focuses on the nature of human movement as influenced by those motor factors and mechanical principles that apply at rest and in motion.
HPPE 341 Human Motor Development (3)
This course is designed to educate HPPE majors in the principles of human motor behavior and its influence on cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development throughout the lifespan. It will introduce students to factors that affect the intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development, growth and maturation of individuals relative to motor skill acquisition and regression.
HPPE 350 Methods of Coaching (3)
This course is intended to provide the foundations of coaching for a person who wants to coach at the youth, elementary, high school or college level. Through a series of discussions, readings, video taped presentations, internet activities, and guest lectures from coaches in the San Luis Valley, the potential coach will gain the knowledge and skills required to be an effective coach. This course will address the many roles and duties a coach must accept to have the best impact he/she can on the athlete.
HPPE 422 Exercise Evaluation and Fitness Management (3)
Designed to familiarize students with the current methods used to determine levels of fitness and to prescribe proper methods used to correct deficiencies in individuals.
HPPE 436 Sport and Exercise Psychology (3)
A study of the Psychological and sociological aspects of physical education and sport and the implications for effective teaching and coaching practices related to this knowledge.
HPPE 440 Organization and Administration of PE (3)
Considers administrative policies of the physical education department; the staff activities, care of equipment, budget, plant, and evaluation. Attention is also directed toward the organization of physical education material for a progressive program in the public schools.
HPPE 448 Adapted Physical Activity (3)
Prerequisite: HPPE 341
A survey of common deviations of posture and feet, functional disturbances, and crippling conditions found in school children. Consideration will be given to the extent and limitations of the responsibility of the teacher for their amelioration or improvement.
HPPE 450 Senior Seminar in HPPE (2)
Prerequisites: HPPE 317
This course is designed as a culminating experience for pre-professional physical education students in the K-12 teaching process. The focus of this course is on the management behaviors necessary to become an effective physical educator at the K-12 level. Emphasis will be placed on student motivation, discipline, personal growth and inclusion, and assessment in the instruction process. A twenty (20) hour, supervised, field-based experience along with a professional portfolio and reflective journal will be required for all students in this course.
HPPE 480 Coaching Practicum (3)
A structured practical experience in which the student actually assists a qualified coaching professional. Students who expect to achieve teacher certification and who will be working in the public schools must have taken the Colorado Assessment Examinations prior to the practicum assignment.
HPPE 485 Practicum in Sport/Exercise Management (3)
Prerequisite: HPPE 442
This practicum is designed to provide the student with actual fieldwork experiences in sport and exercise management. It will give students the opportunity to work with actual clients thus enhancing and expanding the skills developed during their undergraduate program.
HPPE 487 Practicum in Sport Studies (3)
Prerequisite: HPPE 100
This practicum is designed to provide students with fieldwork experiences in the area of sports studies. It will give students the opportunity to work in a sport-related business environment thus enhancing and expanding the skills developed during their undergraduate program.
