B.S. in Health Education & Physical Education
The Department of Teaching and Learning offers a highly respected dual undergraduate major in health education and physical education that prepares you to teach both disciplines in elementary, middle and high schools. The redesigned 127-credit 4-year Bachelor of Science Degree in the Health Education and Physical Education program will provide you with greater career flexibility and will lead to New York State Initial Teaching Certification in two distinct disciplines.
Students in the program learn effective techniques of classroom management, curriculum design, and lesson planning for children in Kindergarten through Grade 12. Liberal arts courses in biology equip you with knowledge in human anatomy and physiology.
The Health Education component examines nutrition, health care services, sexuality and family planning, personal well-being, and drugs in contemporary society. You will learn how to encourage children and teenagers, in a non-judgmental approach, to discuss their experiences, attitudes and values related to health issues.
The Physical Education portion shows you how to create a program that motivates children and adolescents to stay fit. You will learn how to organize movement activities, create rules and regulations, conduct lessons that allow for maximum practice opportunity, analyze student performance and identify sports-related injuries.
In both disciplines, you will gain extensive field-based experience through methods classes and student teaching in local school districts.
Career Options
We provide versatile educational experiences that lead to a wide range of employment opportunities in each discipline, including K-12 teaching in health education and physical education, coaching, sports officiating, physical training, recreational programming, and health education programming and promotion within schools and communities, to name a few.
Program Curriculum
| Course # | Course Name | Credits |
|
HPE 201 |
Introduction to Physical Education and Health Education |
3.00 |
|
PE 139 |
Skills, Softball, Soccer, Lacrosse, Basketball, Football and Ultimate Frisbee |
3.00 |
|
HE 201 |
Critical Health Issues I |
3.00 |
|
PE 106 |
Fitness and Conditioning |
2.00 |
|
PE 138 |
Skills, Track and Field, Tennis, Volleyball, Badminton, Team Handball |
3.00 |
|
HE 202 |
Critical Health Issues II |
3.00 |
|
EDI 14 |
Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Education |
3.00 |
|
HE 255 |
Nutrition for the K-12 Educator |
3.00 |
|
EDS 60 |
Literacy Development: Birth – Grade 6 |
3.00 |
|
HE 204 |
Human Sexuality and the Family |
3.00 |
|
HE 205 |
Substance Abuse |
3.00 |
|
PE 255 |
Motor Learning and Development |
3.00 |
|
PE 257 |
Care and Prevention of Athletic Injuries |
2.00 |
|
HPE 293 |
Technology in Physical Education and Health Education |
1.00 |
|
PE 203 |
Kinesiology and Biomechanical Analysis of Movement |
4.00 |
|
PED 260 |
Curriculum Design in Physical Education |
3.00 |
|
PED 261 |
Secondary Methods in Physical Education |
4.00 |
|
PE 299 |
Exercise Physiology |
4.00 |
|
PED 262 |
Elementary Methods in PE |
4.00 |
|
PED 263 |
Teaching the Individual with Special Needs |
3.00 |
|
HED 261 |
Methods of Teaching Health Education |
4.00 |
|
HPE 202 |
Responding to Emergencies |
2.00 |
|
HPE 295 |
Measurement and Evaluation |
3.00 |
|
HPE 296 |
Student Teaching in Physical Education |
8.00 |
|
HPE 298 |
Student Teaching Seminar |
2.00 |
| Course # | Course Name | Credits |
| Required Core Courses
(32-33 Credits)
|
||
| POST 101 | Post Foundations | 1 |
| FY | First-Year Seminar | 3 |
| ENG 1** | Writing 1 | 3 |
| ENG 2** | Writing 2 | 3 |
| MTH 5 | Quantitative Reasoning | 3-4 |
| Choose one course from each of the five below course clusters and one additional course from one of the clusters. | ||
| Scientific Inquiry & the Natural World |
4 | |
| Creativity Media & the Arts | 3 | |
| Perspectives on World Culture | 3 | |
| Self, Society & Ethics | 3 | |
| Power, Institutions & Structures (ECO 10 Required) | 3 | |
| One additional course from one of the five above clusters. (ECO 11 Required) | 3 | |
| General Elective (3 Credits from Any Course) | ||
* Some courses may count as core and others as electives.
** In addition to ENG 1 and 2, students take at least 3 more writing intensive (WAC) courses as part of their major, core, or elective courses. ENG 303 and 304 can satisfy the ENG 1 and 2 requirement for students in the Honors College.
| Credit Requirements | |
| Total Major Requirement Credits | 68 |
| Total Elective Liberal Arts & Sciences Credits | 27-28 |
| Total Core Requirement Credits | 32-33 |
| Total Degree Credits | 127 |
Core Requirements
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