2006-07 Catalog Archive (Archived July 31, 2006)

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Course Descriptions

PFS121
Integrated Movement Training
This personal fitness course focuses on how to train the body in the manner in which the body functions. Functional training is based on sound scientific training principles and includes instruction on integrated mobility training, core stability training, integrated strength training, plyometric training, balance training and speed and agility training. The focus of this course will be placed on Corrective Exercise training and Integrated Stabilization Training. Students will participate in a functional training regiment utilizing the following equipment: stability balls, medicine balls, agility ladders, various balance tools, dumbbells and elevated boxes. 1 Credit ( .50 Lecture - 1.50 Lab)

PFS122
Performance Enhancement Training
This personal fitness course focuses on how to train the body in the manner in which the body functions. Performance Enhancement Training is based on sound scientific training principles and includes advanced instruction on integrated mobility training, core stabilization training, neuromuscular stabilization training (balance), reactive neuromuscular training (power), integrated speed and agility training, and integrated strength training. Students will participate in an optimal performance training regiment utilizing the following equipment: stability balls, medicine balls, agility ladders and hurdles, various balance tools, dumbbells and elevated boxes. The course will build on PFS121 coursework and introduce muscle hypertrophy, movement strength and explosive power development. Student must successfully complete PFS 121 before enrolling in this course. 1 Credit ( .50 Lecture - 1.50 Lab) Prerequisite(s): PFS121.

PFS170
Specialist Resistance Training
This course is geared for students who are in the Physical Fitness Specialist Program, and it will provide a background that is needed by students who will be involved in the prescription and direction of resistance training programs. The class will focus on resistance training systems, basic principles of resistance training and benefit of resistance training. Students will have one hour of lecture per week, one hour of personal resistance workout lab per week and go into weight training classes two hours a week to apply this knowledge base. This class is open to Physical Fitness Specialist majors, or by permission of instructor or department head. 2 Credits (1 Lecture - 3 Lab)

PFS172
Specialist Aerobic Training
This Physical Fitness Specialist course uses an integrated instructional approach including cognitive, affective, and psychomotor objectives. Contents include an introduction to personal fitness, use of fitness equipment, cardiovascular-respiratory assessment, cardiovascular-respiratory exercise prescription, body composition assessment, body composition intervention strategies, applying aerobic cross-training strategies, active participation in a progressive program design to increase personal fitness, monitoring personal workouts, and prescribing and directing aerobic group and individual activities. Students will have one hour of lecture per week, one hour of personal aerobic workout lab per week, and go into FIT aerobic classes two hours a week to apply this knowledge base. This course is open to Physical Fitness Specialist majors, or permission of instructor or department head. 2 Credits (1 Lecture - 3 Lab)

PFS210
Fitness and Wellness: Behavior Self Management
This course will help students see how lives can be enhanced by a Fitness and Wellness Lifestyle. Accurate, up-to-date information about nutrition, weight management, stress, cardiovascular health, cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, substance-use abuse, and aging/death/dying will be studied. 3 Credits (3 Lecture - 0 Lab) Corequisite(s): BIO103.

PFS216
Physical Fitness Tests and Measurements
This course will cover methods of assessing five components of fitness including respiratory endurance, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility. Development of sound and effective exercise/nutrition prescription, initial screening and assessment skills takes place. Students will learn to choose appropriate tests while considering multiple factors. People differ in age, fitness level and known health problems and students will study the impact of these conditions on fitness tests and measurements. 3 Credits (3 Lecture - 0 Lab) Prerequisite(s): BIO103 and PFS210.

PFS220
Organization and Leadership of Fitness Programs
This course identifies the general principles of an exercise prescription. The essential components of a systematic, individualized exercise prescription include the appropriate modes of intensity, duration, frequency, progression, and safety. 3 Credits (3 Lecture - 0 Lab) Prerequisite(s): BIO103 and PFS210 or BIO103 and PFS216.

PFS225
Fundamentals of Human Performance
An analysis of the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems will provide the basis for understanding human movement as it relates to locomotion, basic skills, and athletic performance. 3 Credits (3 Lecture - 0 Lab) Prerequisite(s): BIO103 and PFS210. Corequisite(s): PFS216.

PFS231
Fitness Management
Fitness Management is designed to assist students gain an understanding of issues and topics that are essential in the successful management and operation of health-fitness facilities. Conventional business management principles and operational guidelines will be applied to the unconventional business of health and fitness. Past, present, and future programming trends in the health fitness industry will be presented, market segmentation and member demographics will be clarified, and organization-management concepts, as they are related to the fitness industry, will be covered. Business and organizational planning skills will be developed and practiced, fitness marketing strategies will be discussed and applied, and responsibilities for "front-of-the-house" and "back-of-the-house" management will be explained and evaluated. 3 Credits (3 Lecture - 0 Lab) Prerequisite(s): CSC110 and MGT115 and PFS210 and PFS216 and PFS220 and PFS225. Corequisite(s): PFS250.

PFS250
Professional Fieldwork
By means of a professional fieldwork program, each student is given the opportunity to experience a health/fitness center environment. The student will be assigned to an approved site for a minimum of 150 hours of actual hands-on participation in the industry. In addition, the student is required to complete a detailed report on the experience and participate in seminar meetings. Since this is a culmination of the education and training process, it must occur in the last semester or with department approval once appropriate course work has been completed. 3 Credits (0 Lecture - 15 Lab) Prerequisite(s): PFS210 and PFS216 and PFS220 and PFS225. Corequisite(s): PFS231.