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Purpose

Physical Activity and Wellness (PED 101) is an introductory course designed to teach the following:

1. The basic components and principles of safe and effective health-related physical activity.
2. The development of positive attitudes, knowledge, and skills that enable individuals to plan, implement, modify, and maintain healthy behaviors for a lifetime.
3. Self-assessment of various health-related fitness components enabling individuals to measure and evaluate their health/fitness status and develop realistic goals to meet their personal needs.
4. The multiple dimensions of wellness (i.e., spiritual, emotional, social, intellectual, and physical), and the importance of balancing each component.

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Format

The format of PED 101 consists of attending one lecture and two physical activity lab sessions each week. The lecture is based on the information provided in the book, on which students will be quizzed. The labs involve active participation in physical activity (the type of physical activity varies depending upon section), as well as the completion of a variety of lab activities and assignments. All assignments, attendance, and grading will be completed by the lab instructor, and submission of all assignments should be to the lab instructor.

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Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the definitions, components, and interactions of health, fitness, and wellness.
• Describe how physical activity contributes to health, fitness, and wellness.
• Identify facilitators and potential barriers to behavior change.
• List the leading causes of death and risk reduction strategies.
• Understand the factors that influence health behaviors and behavior change.
• List and explain the six stages of changes as described in the Transtheoretical Model (TTM).
• Identify, plan, and implement steps to modify behavior.
• Understand the importance of social support in developing healthy lifestyles.
• Identify and give examples of predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors associated with behavior change.
• Describe the three levels of prevention and the role prevention plays in living a positive, healthy lifestyle.
• Describe the benefits of physical activity.
• Name, describe, and apply guidelines of safe and effective physical activity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Activity Pyramid.
• Identify and understand the FITT formula components.
• Identify and understand the importance of the components of a workout.
• Identify and understand the benefits of the health-related components of physical fitness: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
• Understand how to safely improve and maintain the health-related components of fitness.
• Perform and evaluate fitness self-assessments and develop realistic personalized goals.
• Identify and discuss methods of prevention and treatment of heat-related illness.
• Identify and discuss methods of treatment and prevention of fitness-related injuries.
• Discuss treatment and management of exercise-related injuries using RICE and heat.
• Understand the role of essential nutrients (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals) in the diet.
• Explain the expanded and updated version of the original USDA Food Guide Pyramid (MyPyramid).
• Understand eating disorders, including the signs, symptoms, risks, and treatments.
• Understand the concept of spot reduction as it relates to weight management and body shaping.
• Identify and describe lifestyle and behavior management strategies related to weight management.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of energy balance as it relates to weight gain, loss, or maintenance.
• Identify and demonstrate an understanding of the factors related to obesity.
• Learn the leading sources of stress and the facts about stress and health.
• Understand and apply emotional, cognitive, and behavioral techniques for stress management.
• List and describe three elements of a healthy relationship.
• Identify the differences between males and females and how these differences relate to communication.
• Recognize warning signs of an unhealthy relationship.
• Identify steps in preventing sexual assault.
• Increase awareness of personal safety issues.
• Define addictive behaviors and identify characteristics associated with addictive behavior.
• Understand the detrimental effects of addictive substances.
• Discuss drug, alcohol, and tobacco use on the UNCW campus.
• Identify factors that can influence why students use drugs.
• Identify and understand the health effects of the six classifications of drugs.
• Understand the symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatments of sexually transmitted infections and diseases.
• Know the major hypokinetic diseases afflicting Americans.
• List and discuss lifestyle choices that prevent hypokinetic conditions.
• List the major cardiac risk factors and the unalterable cardiac risk factors.
• Know the warning signs for a heart attack.
• Discuss ways to combat obesity.
• Discuss ways to prevent osteoporosis and achieve a high peak bone mass.
• List and discuss ways to prevent low back pain.
• Identify physical recreation activities (and the various providers) available on the UNCW campus and in the Wilmington community.
• Increase awareness of personal interest in and benefits of physical recreation activities.
• Identify at least two credible resources to obtain additional information on health.
• Participate in regular physical activity in the lab classes.
• Through the laboratory assignments, implement self-management skills (i.e., self-assessments, self-monitoring, goal-setting, and self-planning) to develop healthy behaviors that last a lifetime.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do the Labs meet the first week of class?
YES. All PED 101 labs meet in the upstairs section of the coliseum in Trask on the first day of your scheduled lab.

Do I need to dress out for the first day of lab?
NO. On the first day of your scheduled lab, you will be given a schedule and a tour of the four activity locations. Attendance is very important.

Do I need to get a physical to enroll in PED 101?
YES. Each student participating in PED 101 must have an up-to-date physical on record with the UNCW Student Health Center (within the last four years). Questions about your physical should be directed to the Student Health Center 910-962-3280

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Links

PED 101 Spring 2008 Syllabus

Meet the PED 101 Instructors

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