Kinesiology (KIN) courses
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KIN 100 Fitness for Living
The values of health-related physical fitness; ramifications of a negative health life presented for individuals living in an automated, sedentary society, encouraging students to make intelligent decisions concerning a positive health lifestyle to enhance wellness now and in the future. Laboratory helps the individual discover his/her needs for achieving and maintaining high-level wellness. This course will include a physical fitness component.
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KIN 135 Selected Activities in Kinesiology
A variable content course designed to develop lifetime skills in sports, fitness, and/or leisure activities. Activities selected will vary according to demand. Course may be repeated any number of times provided the same activity is not retaken. Course fee.
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KIN 210 Healthy Lifestyles: Preventative Approaches
Prerequisite(s): Must have 12 credit hours.Healthy Lifestyles: Preventive Approaches introduces conceptual and practical information relating to the impact of lifestyle choices on the health and wellness of the individual and society. Students in this course study a variety of fitness-wellness topics while initially and summatively garnering personal fitness-wellness data in both academic and laboratory settings. Collected data are synthesized and critically appraised, resulting in the construction of individualized fitness-wellness programs implemented and periodically re-evaluated over the course of the semester via reflective journal writing; and periodic quizzes and examinations that tie lecture theories to laboratory practices in critical thinking-peer teaching contexts.