300

16-300 Disease Processes and Exercise

This course looks at various general contagious and chronic medical conditions affecting athletic participation as well as general physical activity. The pathology, signs and symptoms and treatment are discussed for each disease. Appropriate recommendations for restricted participation and release for activity are discussed.

3

Prerequisites

16-196 and 16-197, or equivalents.

16-301 Sport and Fitness Management Field Experience 3: Fitness Work Experience

This course is designed to provide the Sport and Fitness Management major with practical work experience in the fitness field. Emphasis will be placed on the application of SFM strategies and skills in a work environment for a minimum of 40 hours. This will be a graded course.

1

Prerequisites

16-206 or 16-207.

16-302 Sport and Fitness Field Experience 4: Sport Business Work Experience

This course is designed to provide the Sport and Fitness Management major with practical work experience in the sport business field. Emphasis will be placed on the application of Sport and Fitness Management strategies and skills in a work environment for a minimum of 40 hours. This will be a graded course.

1

Prerequisites

16-206 or 16-207.

16-303 Sport and Fitness Management Field Experience 5: Fitness or Sport Business Work Experience

This course is designed to provide the Sport and Fitness Management major with practical work experience in either the fitness or sport business field. Emphasis will be placed on the application of Sport and Fitness Management strategies and skills in a work environment for a minimum of 40 hours. This will be a graded course.

1

Prerequisites

16-206 or 16-207.

16-304 Athletic Training Clinical I

The clinical experience takes place in a scholastically-based athletic training room under the direct supervision of an Approved Clinical Instructor. The learning objective for this experience is for the student to show proficiency in assessing injuries to the upper and lower extremities. This progress is documented using weekly worksheets in a clinical packet. In addition, students take a tour of an Emergency Room and the Romeoville Fire Department and complete an ambulance ride experience.

2

Prerequisites

Admission to the Athletic Training Program and consent of program director; 16-264, 16-266.

16-305 Athletic Training Clinical II

The clinical experience takes place in a physical therapy clinic under the direct supervision of an Approved Clinical Instructor. During this experience, students should show proficiency in selecting and applying a variety of therapeutic treatments during the healing process. This experience exposes the students to a wide variety of pathologies and treatment populations and allows them to interact with a variety of health care professionals. This progress is documented using weekly worksheets in a clinical packet. In addition, students observe for 2 weeks in a primary care facility.

2

Prerequisites

Admission to the Athletic Training Program and approval of ATEP director; 16-264, 16-266, 16-300.

16-306 Emergency Procedures for Athletic Trainers

This course prepares students to assess acute traumatic injuries likely to result from physical activity.  Specific topics include:  emergency Care procedures, spine boarding, splinting, assessment of abdominal and thoracic injuries, and creating emergency plans.

1

Prerequisites

Admission to the Athletic Training Program and consent of program director; 16-264, 16-266.

16-307 Pharmacology for Sport and Exercise Science

This course will introduce the student to basic pharmacology concepts including: pharmacokinetics and the effect of exercise on these processes. Nomenclature, laws, regulations, and procedures related to pharmacology and sport will also be discussed.

1

Prerequisites

Admission to the Athletic Training Program, and approval of the ATEP Director.

16-310 Emergency Medicine

This course focuses on emergency medicine and its uses in sport and recreation facilities. In addition to traditional classroom lecture students are required to make clinical observations of emergency rooms and paramedic activities.

2

Prerequisites

16-171 or current first aid/CPR card.

16-314 Sport and Fitness Finance

Study of the sources of revenue for financing sport, including the public and private sectors, governments, memberships, fees, taxes, bonds, and trademark licensing. Focus on principles and methodology of fundraising.

3

Prerequisites

25-200, 61-200.

16-316 Public Relations for Sport and Fitness Managers

This course is designed to introduce students to the role of effective public relations in the sport and fitness industry. The nature and function of public relations will be examined in a variety of sport and fitness settings. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of public relations into the organization's strategic plan. Creating campaigns, developing media relationships, staging media events, providing information services, utilizing the internet and social networks, communicating with internal and external publics, dealing with crisis, and addressing legal and ethical issues are explored.

3

Prerequisites

16-202.

16-324 Advanced Baseball Theories

This course provides a study of advanced skills in offensive and defensive team play, strategy and officiating. The course requires detailed analysis of skill mechanics concentrating on proper error correction. The course prepares students to coach at a more advanced level.

3

Prerequisites

16-224 or consent.

16-325 Advanced Basketball Theories

Students learn advanced skills of the game, as well as advanced offensive and defensive team play and advanced strategies and tactics is presented. The course requires detailed analysis of skill mechanics concentrating on proper error correction. It prepares students to coach at a more advanced level.

3

Prerequisites

16-225 or consent.

16-326 Advanced Soccer Theories

A study of the advanced skills of the game, as well as advanced offensive and defensive team play and advanced strategies and tactics is presented. The course requires detailed analysis of skill mechanics concentrating on proper error correction. It prepares students to coach at a more advanced level.

3

Prerequisites

16-326 or consent.

16-327 Advanced Football Theories

This course provides a study of the advanced skills of the game, as well as advanced offensive and defensive team play and advanced strategies and tactics. The course requires detailed analysis of skill mechanics concentrating on proper error correction. It prepares students to coach at a more advanced level.

3

Prerequisites

16-227 or consent.

16-328 Advanced Volleyball Theories

Students develop advanced skills of the game, as well as advanced offensive and defensive team play and advanced strategies and tactics. The course requires detailed analysis of skill mechanics concentrating on proper error correction. It prepares students to coach at a more advanced level.

3

Prerequisites

16-228 or consent.

16-330 Teaching Group Exercise

This course examines the theories and practices appropriate for teaching group exercise. The student will learn the methodology necessary for setting up classes, creating effective teaching progressions, and choreographing to music. This course will take a "workshop" approach wherein students will perform the activities and master the techniques associated with good exercise instruction.

3

16-340 Kinesiology

This course focuses on the functional anatomical basis of human motion, with special emphasis on the skeletal, neural and muscular systems. Within this focus, the human body is examined with regard to how movement is created and maintained. This course fulfills the advanced writing requirement for athletic training majors.

3

Prerequisites

16-196.

16-343 Sport and Fitness Performance Enhancement

The study of the athletic fitness components of agility, speed, power, flexibility, strength, and endurance and their application to sport performance.

3

Prerequisites

16-211 or 16-212

16-345 Exercise Physiology

Students examine the physiological responses and adaptations of the body to exercise and training.

3

Prerequisites

16-196 and 16-197.

16-350 Exercise Prescription for Varied Populations

Student study techniques, procedures and gain practical laboratory experience in aerobic, strength, flexibility, blood pressure and related measurements. Students apply measurements to specific exercise mandates, as well as to varied populations such as geriatrics, diabetics, pregnant women and those individuals with weight management issues.

3

Prerequisites

16-211 or 16-212; 16-196.

16-358 Methods and Materials for Secondary Physical Education for the Regular and Exceptional Student

Students examine techniques and strategies for teaching physical education in the secondary school with normal and exceptional students.

2

Prerequisites

05-342 (may be taken simultaneously).

16-360 Sport and Fitness Program Administration

This course studies the administrative aspects of fitness, recreational and school athletics programs. Students review the developmental aspects of program implementation and operational practices, such as public relations, budgeting, office management, program marketing and program review.

3

16-361 Management Strategies for Athletic Trainers

This course instructs athletic training students in the principles of management and their application to the specific needs of athletic trainers as allied healthcare professionals. The course covers budgeting, design of an athletic training room, the role/application of athletic insurance, organizing physical exams and drug testing procedures, and the legal considerations of sports medicine.

3

Prerequisites

16-264, 16-266.

16-362 Sport and Fitness Facility Management

This course will provide the student direction for carrying out the day-to-day managerial and operational responsibilities of a sport-related facility. It will also provide the student with methods for inspecting, repairing and replacing equipment and facilities.

3

16-366 Corporate Health and Fitness Programming

This course covers the advanced principles of fitness programming with application to specific sport and corporate environments. Included are leadership techniques for the development of safe and individualized cardiovascular conditioning, muscular strength, flexibility and wellness programs.

3

Prerequisites

16-211 or 16-212 and 16-196 or 16-197.

16-367 Ethics and Governance in Sport and Fitness

This course is designed to introduce students to the processes of ethical decision-making and effective governance of sport and fitness. Emphasis will be placed on governing in an ethical, moral, socially responsible, and legal way in the sport and fitness industry. Ethics/governance models, codes of ethics, and value-based decision-making will be covered. Specific areas to be addressed include competition, sportsmanship, winning/losing, cheating, rules and regulations, violence, drugs, alcohol, racism, gender equity, amateurism (Olympic/Para-Olympic, international, youth, and senior recreation), sports, appropriate marketing/advertising, and human resource management.

3

Prerequisites

16-202.

16-370 Legal Aspects of Sport and Fitness

This course looks at liability issues related to the business of sport. Specific areas emphasized include facility management, athletic training and coaching.

3

16-375 Risk Management for Sport and Fitness

This course presents a comprehensive review of risk management, loss prevention, and safety/health relevant to sport and physical activity.

3

Prerequisites

16-370