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Eastfield College | Science and PE Division PHED 1119 – Beginning Weight Training Spring 2012 1 Credit Hour Instructor: Gary Halliday Class Times: PHED 1119 4503 TR, 5:35 PM – 6:55 PM PHED 1119 4504 TR, 7:05 PM – 8:25 PM PHED 1119 4505 TR, 8:35 PM – 9:55 PM Room: P215 Office: C201 Phone: 972-860-7140 (leave message) Hours available: appt only Email: [email protected] Course Description: This is a Texas Common Course Number. This is a DCCCD Core Curriculum Course. Course Description: Instruction in weight training and conditioning techniques are stressed. Emphasis is placed on muscular strength and endurance. (3 Lab.) Coordinating Board Academic Approval Number 36010851283 Required Text: None Course Objective: The objective of this Institutional Option of the Core Curriculum is to help students recognize the importance of maintaining health and wellness. Students will engage in physical assessments, various physical activities, and other health and wellness activities that will enable them to evaluate, design, and implement a life-long approach to maintaining health and wellness. Student Learning Outcomes: 1. Student demonstrates improvement in their fitness level as measured by their fitness scores. 2. Student designs an appropriate individual program of fitness for future fitness and wellness.Evaluation Procedure: Your grade will be derived from: 1. Attendance. Students will be given the opportunity to make up all missed assignments due to an absence. 2. The physical and mental effort put into your fitness program. Students are required to follow and perform a balanced fitness program, wear proper athletic attire and come to class prepared. 3. The accuracy and thoroughness of your training diary. Using the required format, students will keep a detailed record of each performed fitness activity. Grade Scale: A = 100-90 B = 89-80 C = 79-70 D = 69-65 F = 64 or below Class Procedures: 1. Be dressed to workout. Athletic workout type clothes and sport type running/walking rubber sole shoes are required. 2. Bring towel to put on workout equipment as you work out. 3. Nothing to eat or drink in workout room except bottled water with cap. 4. All personal belongings go in designated area during workout. No phones during workout. 5. Log in each day’s workout in your journal. Keep good records of your progress. 6. Use your time wisely. Make it count. 7. Make every effort to attend each class session. Each session is an opportunity for improvement in our fitness. 8. Set realistic goals and work in a progressive manner to achieve them. 9. Use a “spotter” when using heavy weights. 10. Replace free weights when finished. Leave empty bars on benches. 11. Use collars for safety. 12. Be serious and courteous about your workout. No sitting and socializing on equipment for extended time. 13. No children are permitted in fitness lab. Outline: Weeks 1-2 -Lectures - Introduction to “Fitness and Wellness text” - Equipment demonstration - How to’s for fitness journal Weeks 3-4 -Guide students toward development of a personal fitness program Weeks 4-16 -Apply principles in chapters 1-9 of text book while engaging in various physical activities as well as health and wellness awareness to encourage a life long approach to a healthy lifestyle.Tests/Assignments - Construct a balanced personal fitness program - Keep an accurate record in a training journal using a standardized format of evaluation - Knowledge of basics/fundamentals as presented in text “Fitness and Wellness” FINANCIAL AID STUDENTS: If you are receiving Financial Aid grants or loans, you must begin attendance in all classes. Do not drop or stop attending any class without consulting the Financial Aid. Changes in your enrollment level and failing grades may require that you repay financial aid funds. Failure to contact the instructor will result in your name being submitted to the Financial Aid Office as a "non-attendee". All students receiving financial aid should open an E-mail account through NetMail. See directions in this syllabus for opening an E-mail account. ACADEMIC HONESTY: Scholastic dishonesty is a violation of the Code of Student Conduct. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. As a college student, you are considered a responsible adult. Your enrollment indicates acceptance of the DCCCD Code of Student Conduct published in the DCCCD Catalog at http://www1.dcccd.edu/cat0506/ss/code.cfm Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on tests, plagiarism and collusion. Cheating includes copying from another student’s test or homework paper, using materials not authorized, collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test, knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting the contents of an unadministered test, and substituting for another person to take a test. Plagiarism is the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work. Collusion is the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements. Academic dishonesty is a serious offense in college. You can be given a failing grade on an assignment or test, can be failed for the class, or you can even be suspended from college. EMERGENCY/INCLEMENT WEATHER PROCEDURE: In case of emergency or inclement weather conditions, Eastfield students should listen to KEOM-FM Radio (88.5FM) as the primary media source. In partnership with the Mesquite Independent School District, Eastfield College Administration will notify KEOM immediately after a decision is made to cancel classes on any given day of inclement weather or for emergency purposes. Students may also monitor other local radio and television stations. The earliest an announcement may be broadcast on KEOM Radio is 6 a.m. Students may also refer to the Eastfield college web page www.eastfieldcollege.com for the Inclement Weather announcement under the Features area of the front page. The announcement will be posted immediately following the decision to close the college. REPEATING THIS COURSE: (Third Attempt to Enroll in a Course) Effective for Fall Semester 2005, the Dallas County Community Colleges will


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