Timeroom: Spring 2025

Durham Health & Human Services :: Health and Physical Education

HPE 570 (01) - Elementary Physical Education Practicum

Elementary PE Practicum

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 52422
Special Fees: $60.00

As a prospective teacher, you will be asked to examine, discuss, and implement teaching strategies learned in HPE 610 - Elementary Physical Education Pedagogy. Sixty hours of observation and teaching in the schools will be expected. As this is a "gateway" course to student teaching or the 5th year internship, it is expected that students invest efforts into the development of pedagogical skills needed for effective teaching.

Prerequisite(s): HPE 610

Equivalent(s): KIN 570

Only listed majors in section: HEALTH&PHYSED, KIN:HLTH&PHYSED

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Scott McNamara

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	W	4:10pm - 6:00pm	NHH G37

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HPE 603 (01) - Team Sports

Team Sports

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 52424

This course is designed to expose students to the teaching of games through a tactical approach. This approach places a heavy emphasis on small-sided, modified games with subsequent question and answer sessions. The course will focus on instruction, game play, skill development, and analysis leading to playing competence and knowledge of teaching in soccer, ultimate Frisbee, basketball, handball, flag football, volleyball and softball.

Equivalent(s): KIN 603

Only listed majors in section: HEALTH&PHYSED, KIN:HLTH&PHYSED

Instructors: Chad Killian

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	REC 310

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HPE 603 (02) - Team Sports

Team Sports

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 53315

Equivalent(s): KIN 603

Instructors: Chad Killian

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	REC 310

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HPE 671 (01) - Health Education Pedagogy

Health Ed Ped

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 52485

This course provides a foundation for teaching health education in K-12 settings. Aligned with the CDC Characteristics for Effective Health Education, the course builds on previous knowledge of the National Health Education Standards and other appropriate practices while preparing pre-service teachers to increase the health literacy and proficiency levels of their future students.

Equivalent(s): KIN 671

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Instructors: Holly Alperin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	NHH G37

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HPE 675 (01) - Motor Development and Learning

Motor Development and Learning

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 56278

This class examines motor development throughout the life-span utilizing an ecological perspective that incorporates the individual, the environmental conditions and the required tasks. The class is divided into 4 modules. Modules include the theoretical underpinnings of motor development, elements of fitness, assessment, and individual constraints. The class concludes with peer teaching episodes.

Equivalent(s): KIN 675

Instructors: Chad Killian

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	8:10am - 9:30am	HEW 131

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HPE 676 (01) - Adventure Activities

Adventure Activities

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 12
CRN: 52428

This course provides for the acquisition of knowledge and skills for students to utilize adventure education methods and philosophies when teaching physical education through an experiential pedagogy. Students will be exposed to adventure methodologies: climbing, orienteering, initiatives, low ropes course and high ropes course. Students will realize facilitation and teaching strategies through peer and practice teaching with local students from Oyster River Middle School in Durham.

Equivalent(s): KIN 676

Only listed majors in section: HEALTH&PHYSED, KIN:HLTH&PHYSED

Instructors: STAFF

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	M	3:40pm - 7:00pm	NHH 120
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	M	3:40pm - 7:00pm	NHH G44

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HPE 694 (01) - Supervised Teaching in Health and Physical Education

Supervised Teach in Health/PE

Credits: 6.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Credit/Fail Grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 52432

Students in this course will be involved in observing, assisting and teaching health and physical education classes in local schools as their culminating experience in the HPE major. These experiences will be augmented by weekly seminars whereby issues pertaining to focused observations and thoughts related to teaching and learning will be discussed. Throughout the duration of this course, students will be asked to reflect on the teaching they observe as well as their own teaching.

Co-Requisite: EDUC 694D

Equivalent(s): KIN 694

Only listed classes in section: Senior

Only listed majors in section: HEALTH&PHYSED, KIN:HLTH&PHYSED

Instructors: Holly Alperin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025		Hours Arranged	TBA

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HPE 696 (01) - Independent Study in Health and/or Physical Education

Independent Study in HPE

Credits: 2.0 to 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 2
CRN: 52433

An advanced, individual scholarly project under the direct supervision of a faculty member.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated up to 4 times.

Instructors: Holly Alperin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Health & Human Services :: Health and Physical Education

HPE 712 (01) - Health Education Practicum

Health Ed Practicum

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 18
CRN: 52436

This practicum provides prospective educators an opportunity to observe, develop and practice teaching skills in the health classroom. Students are expected to accumulate 60 hours of observing, assisting and teaching experience in schools. In addition, weekly seminars integrate field experience with lesson planning, school wellness policies and the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child approach. This serves as an opportunity for refinement and continued development of teacher skills and attributes for teaching health education.

Prerequisite(s): HPE 648 and HPE 671

Equivalent(s): KIN 712

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman, Sophomore

Only listed majors in section: HEALTH&PHYSED, KIN:HLTH&PHYSED

Instructors: Holly Alperin

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	T	8:10am - 9:30am	NHH G10

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