FRA 1002 (3)

LIFETIME AND WELLNESS

 

 

INSTRUCTOR:   Bill Burnside

 

Office:    Room 17 Carney-Johnston                Office #:          425-3393

 

Class Times:  MWF 1:30 – 2:20 pm              Email:            burnside@lambuth.edu

 

Location:        Gym 208                                  Term:              Fall 2007

 

Textbook:       Fitness and Wellness. 7th Edition. Hoeger & Hoeger.

 

Course Description:

            This course is designed to expose the student to the concepts involved in creating a personal life-long fitness and wellness program. General health topics will be emphasized, specifically cardiovascular fitness, nutrition, stress management, prevention of hypokinetic diseases and current health trends and topics. Application of general health topics and wellness objectives to each student’s lifestyle will take place through classroom lectures, lab activities and computer assignments.

 

Course Objectives: Students will…

·        Have the ability to administer and interpret assessment of health related components of physical fitness in order to design an individual nutritional and fitness program. Students will be required to assess levels of physical fitness through physical testing using basic and computerized equipment.

·        Understand the sports related components of physical fitness to include agility, balance, speed, power and coordination

·        Have participated in activities that promote the development of cardiovascular fitness and positive health behaviors.

·        Understand techniques used to assess body composition (skinfold measurement, BMI)

·        Become aware of their current level of fitness.

·        Become aware of their own nutritional habits and needs.

·        Become aware of different techniques for managing their own stress.

·        Understand how society effects wellness.

·        Understand how science and technology has effected fitness and wellness both positively and negatively (dietary supplements, steriods, automated society).

·        Students will be introduced to many different lifetime activities including, but not limited to: walking, running, weight training- both nautilus and free-weights, tennis, and stress-reducing exercises.

 

Attendance: Class attendance will be taken daily.  The fifth unexcused absence, and each subsequent one will be penalized with a 10 point penalty. Excused absences will be granted only with regard to university policy.  To be excused for a Lambuth related activity, athletic or otherwise, the student must inform the teacher of the absence prior to the day that will be missed. In the case of emergency absence, documentation of the reason for absence will be required by the instructor.

 

Cheating:

Any student guilty of cheating will receive a 0 for that assignment and that student may be subject to additional disciplinary action by the university. Cheating is presenting work that is not your own, such as copying from another student’s assignment, plagiarism (copying the language, ideas or thoughts of another and passing them off as your own), or allowing someone to use your work as theirs.

 

 

Evaluation:

Points:

 

·        Personal Fitness Journal

·        Self assessment project

·        Internet assignment

·        Midterm exam

·        Final exam

·        Daily Participation

 

A-    540-600

B-    480-539

C-    420-479

D-    360-419

E-     0-359

 

100
50
100
50
100

200
600 Total points

 

 

 

Personal fitness journal:

This is a notebook consisting of all your fitness activities. It does not have to be typed, but I must be able to read it easily. A loose-leaf binder or three-pronged folder will work best. A table of contents and subject dividers will greatly aid in organization. You will turn in each lab write-up as it is completed. After grading, it will be returned to you to become part of your fitness journal. The purpose of the various lab assignments is to assist you in determining your current personal fitness level, nutritional habits and lifestyle. They will serve as a baseline to help you develop a lifetime fitness strategy. I want you also to keep track of your weekly fitness activities (for example, if you go for a hike or bicycle trip on the weekend). Throughout the class, you will be given journal questions to answer and file in your notebook. Your journal is due the last day of class. No late journals will be accepted.

 

Internet Assignment: The student is expected to find an Internet site that is related to health or wellness in some area of his/her interest. The student will write a critique of this site and assess whether it contains helpful or possibly harmful information.