Course Archive, Graduate

Sport Management, Recreation Management & Physical Education

APK 5121
Sport Exercise Psychology (3)

LEI 5316
Event Planning Management (3)
This is an advanced course in event management focusing on managerial aspects of event operations such as economic impact, assessment, infrastructure, safe operations, staging and production, food and beverage operations, vendors, and volunteers.

LEI 5317
Event Management Issues in Ethics and Risk Management (3)
This advanced course in event management focuses on issues and considerations in event planning ethics, risk management, and safety.

LEI 5563
Event Marketing (3)
This is an advanced course in event marketing that focuses on the components required for development of marketing plans for the various venues in the special events industry, including sponsorship acquisition.

LEI 5942
Practicum in Events Management (3)
Prerequisites: LEI 5316, 5317, 5563
This course provides students with an opportunity to apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes developed during their academic preparation. It is also aimed at helping students gain valuable experience in management of events. Students complete a minimum of 150 hours over an extended period of time, but not less than twelve (12) weeks.

PEO 5002
Educational Games II (3)
Prerequisites: PEO 5042, PET 4051
This course focuses on how to plan for skill development in games stages III and IV through the use of extending, refining, and application tasks. An emphasis is placed on the use of game stages and movement framework as a guide for designing a variety of broad-based games experiences for the middle grade and secondary student. Two models (cooperative learning and sport education) are demonstrated in relation to physical education curricula. Graduate students read and report on the current literature related to teaching game strategies in school settings.

PEP 5208
Educational Gymnastics (3)
Prerequisites: PET 4710, 4710L
The purpose of this course is to provide the foundational knowledge, practical teaching experience, and current research in the content of educational gymnastics.

PET 5145
Issues in Physical Education (3)
A discussion of current issues in physical education.

PET 5425
Curriculum Design in Physical Education (3)
Principles and factors in design and construction of physical education curricula at all grade levels.

PET 5516
Assessment in K–12 Physical Education (3)
This course increases students' knowledge of performance-based assessment related to teaching K–12 physical education. Students focus on four primary themes as a theoretical basis for improving student assessment:

1. using assessment to drive instruction
2. assessing content across the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains of learning
3. using assessment in ways that allow students to apply information and perform competently
4. using a balanced approach when selecting assessment strategies.

Students apply concepts from these themes into a field experience component and therefore must have access to a K–12 physical education class to teach.

PET 5645
Programs in Adapted Physical Education PET (3)
Problems in developing and implementing adapted physical education programs in the public schools, private schools, and postsecondary institutions.

PET 5710
Reflective Teaching

PET 5715
Effective Teaching in Physical Education (3)
Pedagogical knowledge and skills related to the generic aspects of effective instruction as applied to physical education.

PET 5718
Interdisciplinary Teaching PET (3)
This course provides an in-depth study of the fundamentals of interdisciplinary programs. The course focuses on connected, shared and partnership teaching models that can be used as guides for organizing content, collaborating with others and creating meaningful activities that impact student learning. The course also explores strategies for implementation, including ideas for getting started, selecting a teaching model, developing lesson plans, assessing interdisciplinary learning using alternative strategies and building a support network.

PET 5735
Advanced Coaching (3)

PET 5774
Methods and Materials of Teaching Fitness, K–12 (3)
This course focuses on how to implement a lifetime, health-related physical fitness program in school and community settings. Students improve their knowledge of fitness concepts, design learning activities, review the research on physical activity, and develop strategies to research and teach lifetime fitness to children and adolescents.

PET 6419
Supervision in Physical Education (3)
Theory and practice of the supervisory process in the physical education setting. Offered alternate years.

PET 6931r
Advanced Topics (1–4)
Integration of facts, principles, and theories into a practical philosophy in the area of specialization of instructor teaching the course any given semester. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve (12) semester hours.

PET 8966r
Master's Comprehensive Examination (0)
(P/F grade only)

SPM 5350
Athlete Recruitment (3)
The course will cover all facets of recruiting including talent and academic evaluation, compliance, technology, official and unofficial visits, decision-making theories, commitments, and ethical issues.