PER110 SWIMMING: BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE 2 credits This course teaches basic swimming and elementary water safety skills including treading water, sculling, front crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, and sidestroke. Elementary forms of rescue, self-rescue, and drownproofing are discussed. Appropriate Red Cross certification is awarded upon completion of required skills. Prerequisites: none. PER126 FITNESS AND WELLNESS 2 credits This course is an introduction to physical fitness and wellness designed to acquaint students with basic knowledge, understanding, and value of physical activity as it relates to optimal healthful living. The course includes fitness evaluation and wellness assessment with pretest of cardiovascular efficiency, muscular strength endurance, flexibility, skills, body composition, diet, and weight control. Students cannot receive academic credit for both PER126 and PER130. Prerequisites: FYE101, MAT092, RDG098, or placement. PER127 WEIGHT MANAGEMENT THROUGH WALKING AND RESISTANCE TRAINING 2 credits This course is designed as a fitness activity aimed at those students who want to acquire and use the knowledge for lifelong weight control. There will be an emphasis on aerobic walking to burn calories and resistance training to raise percentage of lean body weight. Each student will develop personal goals and objectives. Prerequisites: FYE101, RDG098, or placement. PER130 HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WELLNESS 3 credits This course is an introduction to healthy lifestyles and fitness. It is designed to acquaint students with a knowledge, understanding, and value of physical activity, nutrition and weight management, preventing diseases, and wellness management for optimal healthful living. Two and one half hours lecture and one and a quarter hour exercise lab. Includes fitness and wellness evaluations. Students cannot receive academic credit for both PER126 and PER130. Prerequisites: FYE101, MAT092, RDG098, or placement.
PHL201 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES 3 credits This is an introduction to the nature and practice of philosophical reflection on such questions as the meaning of awareness in defining self, the nature of reality, the problem of knowledge, the development of moral standards, the existence of God, and people's place in the universe. Emphasis is on discussion of case studies dealing with such issues as "How do we come to know the real world?", "What makes an action right or wrong?", "Are we a spirit within a body or a body within a spirit?", and "Do we have free will, or are all our actions determined?" Readings include historical and modern selections in philosophy and literature from both Western and Eastern traditions. Prerequisites: ENG098, FYE101 RDG098, or placement. PHL210 LEVELS OF BEING 3 credits An exploration through discussion, reading, and limited practice of the dimensions of physical, mental, and spiritual being from philosophical, psychological, and religious perspectives. Readings are drawn from humanistic and transpersonal psychology, quantum physics, mystical Christianity, Eastern and Western philosophy, and include such investigators of the human spirit as Einstein, Heisenberg, Jung, Maslow, Lao Tzu, Guatama, and St. John of the Cross. Prerequisite: ENG101. Spring. PHO115 (FORMERLY BCT115) INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 3 credits This introductory course covers the technical and artistic aspects of capturing and editing digital images. Students will learn how to create artistic images for print and for the World Wide Web. Emphasis is placed on the camera and how to use it, lighting, electronic capture and manipulation techniques, and photographic composition. A digital camera (at least 5mp) is required. One that can be manually controlled is preferred. Prerequisite: Basic computer skills.
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