Physical Education

Courses

PED 0140: Cross Training

Credits 0.5 (Per Semester)

Students will get a variety of fitness-based experiences. Each day of the week focuses on a different aspect of physical fitness including cardio respiratory, endurance, weight training, and fitness-based circuit training. Various aspects of hydration and nutrition will be researched. This class can be repeated for credit, however, it can only be taken once per academic year unless written approval is given by instructor.

PED 0210: A/B PE Advanced Co-Ed

Credits 1.0 (0.5 Credits Per Semester)

This course is designed to give a basic foundation in PE by exposing students to team and individual sports, with different sports featured each semester. This course can be repeated for credit.

PED 0220/0232: Weight Training A/B

Credits 1.0 (0.5 Credits Per Semester)
This course introduces students to all types of resistance training. The class consists of a four-day weight-lifting program with emphasis on technique and safety. One day per week is designated for fitness-related activity. It may be repeated for credit.

PEDC 111/112: IGCSE PE

Credits 1.0 (0.5 Credits Per Semester)

A Cambridge PE course for freshmen and sophomore students with an interest in athletics, sports medicine, athletic training and coaching, physical therapy or even medicine. Students will develop their knowledge and understanding physical performance in a modern world; apply this knowledge and understanding to improve their performance; perform in a range of physical activities, developing skills and techniques, and selecting and using tactics, strategies and/or compositional ideas; understand and appreciate safe practice in physical activity and sport; understand and appreciate the benefit of physical activityand sport for health, fitness and well-being and much more.

PED C211/212: AS Sports & PE

Credits 1.0 (0.5 Credits Per Semester)

For sophomore, juniors, and seniors with an interest in athletics, sports medicine, athletic training and coaching, physical therapy, or even medicine. This new Cambridge AS level Sports and Physical Education course is just what you need to get a strong foundation. This is an active course with the credibility of Cambridge curriculum which includes: applied anatomy, exercise physiology and biomechanics; an understanding of the structure, functions and interrelationships between the skeletal, muscular, circulatory and respiratory systems that is essential to analyze how the human body moves in sporting situations and to explain how it adapts to exercise; biomechanics, sports performances, technology, and sociocultural influences.