Undergraduate Coaching
Undergraduate Coaching
2025 Fall Term
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INTRODUCTION TO COACHING
COACHING 240
A course designed to introduce undergraduate students to the profession of coaching. The nature of the profession, qualifications, skills and issues relative to the profession will be explored.
APPLICATION OF MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES TO COACHING
COACHING 250
This course is designed as an introductory course to the fundamentals of movement. This course will enable students to apply various mechanical principles to their future professions, primarily coaching.
BASIC STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING FOR SPORTS
COACHING 255
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of basic strength and conditioning subjects. Emphasis is placed on providing each student with the opportunity to instruct and coach related material on strength and conditioning for special populations.
PSYCHO-SOCIAL ASPECTS OF COACHING
COACHING 256
A study of the social and psychological factors that impact athletic performance. Theoretical and applied perspectives will be explored from a coaching framework.
COACHING OF COMMUNITY SPONSORED SPORTS
COACHING 265
Designed for men and women who wish to take part in the coaching of community sponsored sports. The role of community sponsored sports in the total picture of a young person's development, the organization and administration, and the actual coaching of community sponsored sports will be covered.
ADVANCED TOPICS IN STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING
COACHING 341
The course teaches students how to design strength and conditioning programs for tactical populations, including military, police, fire, and rescue personnel. Additional topics include emerging training theories and modalities. Upon completion, students will be prepared to pursue a credential in tactical strength and conditioning facilitation.
STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PROGRAM DESIGN
COACHING 345
This course will teach students how to develop sport-specific strength and conditioning programs, with a specific emphasis on creation of periodized programs. Students will learn how to manipulate training variables across multi-year training cycles, in order to achieve peak performance in strength, speed, and endurance.
COACHING OF BASKETBALL
COACHING 351
This course is designed for those men and women who wish to become basketball coaches. The administration, organization, and management principles, as well as rules, techniques of individual and team play, strategy, psychology, and problems of coaching are pursued through lectures, discussions, practices, and demonstrations.
COACHING OF WRESTLING
COACHING 356
This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills essential to the coaching of competitive wrestling.
ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETICS
COACHING 460
Students in this course will learn about the day to day operations of an intercollegiate athletic department. There will be leadership lessons and activities as well as problem solving cases that will allow the student to prepare them to be an athletic administrator. The class will also discuss the different governing bodies, history of intercollegiate athletics, and both external and internal operations.
PREVENTION AND CARE OF ATHLETIC INJURIES
COACHING 461
This class covers the methods and techniques for the treatment and prevention of injuries related to participation in physical activities. Emphasis is placed on the etiology of movement injuries, injury management procedures, and preventive conditioning techniques.
LEGAL ASPECTS OF SPORT AND RECREATION ACTIVITIES
COACHING 480
This course will examine the complexities of sport and recreation litigation, primarily focused on educational institutions. Students will use this knowledge to aid their professional growth in the fields of sport and recreation activity. Topics such as risk management, contracts, liability, and policy development will provide a better understanding of the law with respect to challenges encountered by sport and recreation professionals.
FIELD STUDY IN COACHING
COACHING 492
Field study in coaching provides undergraduate students with a supervised capstone experience in coaching. Students will be placed with department approved university/public/private/community teams/programs to obtain practical experience in the sport(s) of their choice. The site selection will be consistent with the professional objectives selected by the student.
SPECIAL STUDIES
COACHING 496
Variable topics. Group activity. Not offered regularly in the curriculum but offered on topics selected on the basis of timeliness, need, and interest, and generally in the format of regularly scheduled Catalog offerings.