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3.00 Credits
This course will address the principles and techniques used to plan, implement, document, and evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic exercise and modalities for the rehabilitation and reconditioning of orthopedic and athletic injuries. This is a lecture course with required additional external service-learning activities. Topics include injury/trauma to tissue, tissue healing, muscle contractions, basics on developing muscle tissue, and proper documentation. Course is required of students intent on meeting the requirements for athletic training licensure in the state of Texas. Prerequisite: KINE 2335. (Spring)
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1.00 Credits
Provides the student with the opportunity to demonstrate diagnostic skills, organization skills, group process skills, and program planning skills in either a community or university setting. Prerequisite: Internship contract approved by the instructor and the associate dean of Education, and Junior standing. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
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1.00 Credits
Includes a weekly seminar and a supervised clinical internship. Students receive opportunities for skill development related to concurrent course topics. Each student is required to complete and document approximately 300 clock-hours of service in an approved athletic-training setting under the supervision of a licensed trainer. To be eligible for graduation and state licensure, a student must document a minimum of 1800 clock-hours in six or more consecutive semesters. Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor. (Spring)
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2.00 Credits
Provides the student with the opportunity to demonstrate diagnostic skills, organization skills, group process skills, and program planning skills in either a community or university setting. Prerequisite: Internship contract approved by the instructor and the associate dean of Education. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the physiological responses of the body to exercise. Emphasis is on the application of the physiological principles deemed most important for peak performance. BIOL 2404 strongly recommended. Prerequisite: Junior standing. (Fall, Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to identify the qualities, skills, competencies, responsibilities, and obligations of coaches; to identify the personal and professional roles that coaches may play and the conflicts inherent in these roles; to identify the biological considerations of athletes important for coaches to consider; to review the appropriate strategies and skills necessary to meet, select, teach, motivate, and discipline the athlete; to identify the administrative and human management skills necessary for success as a coach; and to address the advantages and disadvantages of coaching as a profession. Prerequisite: Junior standing. (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as a survey of the legal implications inherent in coaching and teaching physical education. Topics covered include: an overview of the legal system; the anatomy of a civil suit; tort law and negligence theory; administrative issues; issues concerning the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution; intentional torts; product liability; contracts; and risk management strategies. When appropriate, the ethical dilemmas associated with coaching and teaching will be discussed. Students will be asked to apply legal theory to case situations. Prerequisite: Junior standing. (Fall, Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Provides the student with the opportunity to demonstrate diagnostic skills, organization skills, group process skills, and program planning skills in either a community or university setting. Prerequisite: Internship contract approved by instructor and the associate dean of Education. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
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3.00 Credits
This course critically explores the ways in which the liberal arts have been conceived and perceived, using a thematic approach to explore different disciplinary ways of exploring and knowing. Students develop their ability to articulate a vision of liberal arts education, of what it should consist and why, as well as how it relates to other modes of intellectual inquiry. Emphasis is also on development of informed leadership regarding the role of liberal arts in education and society. Students entering in the summer wait until the fall to take this course, but students entering in the fall or spring must take this course in their first term in the program, or get special permission from the program director to delay doing so.
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3.00 Credits
This research course, a prerequisite to the capstone course (LACC 6399), focuses on successful project proposal development and the research skills necessary to complete the proposal and project. Working with the seminar instructor and a mentoring professor assigned before the end of the semester, students explore and develop methods of inquiry and research appropriate to graduate liberal studies and to their specific research interests, and they complete a special project proposal.
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