Nov 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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PE 105 - Instructional Skills and Techniques 5 – Aquatics


Credits: 2

Introduce basic skills and stroke mechanics techniques for swimming and diving. While learning basic skills, student attention is focused on the process of teaching, as well as skill acquisition. 

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

  • Demonstrate swim strokes: front crawl, back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, side stroke and butterfly.
  • Demonstrate diving and diving progression.
  • Understand safety awareness during swim classes.
  • Create water games and understand how they help with learning.
  • Give positive Corrective feedback.
  • Instruct when there are cultural and developmental differences.
  • Develop and use unit and lesson plans.
  • Understand Hydrodynamic Principles: buoyance, drag, propulsion, Law of Inertia, Law of Acceleration, Law of Levers.
  • Instruct aquatics for people with disabilities or health conditions.
  • Demonstrate basic water rescue skills.




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