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| HPR 100 | Concepts of Lifetime Fitness (2) Provides students with knowledge and skills to adopt positive lifestyle behaviors that will enhance health, fitness, and quality of life. This course fulfills the Liberal Arts Core requirement for a health and wellness course. |
| HPR 102 | Beginning Swimming (1) Focus is on development of basic swimming skills and water safety for the nonswimmer, the fearful swimmer, and the novice swimmer. |
| HPR 103 | Lifeguarding (2) Develops skills required for American Red Cross certification in standard First Aid, CPR, and lifeguarding. Skills required: Swim 500 yards continuously, surface dive, swim underwater 15 yards, tread water for one minute. |
| HPR 104 | Golf (1) Development of the fundamental skills and knowledge of golf. Emphasis on the value of a lifetime sport. |
| HPR 106 | Swimming for Fitness (1) Offers skill development to make swimming a lifetime sport. Includes water safety, stroke development, and aquatic training principles. |
| HPR 107 | Team Sports (1) Development of fundamental skills in selected team sports. |
| HPR 108 | Weight Training (1) Includes information and skills for safety and correctly improving muscular strength and endurance using weights. |
| HPR 109 | Karate (1) An introduction to Okinawan Isshinryu Karate, including basic self-defense skills and an emphasis on development of physical fitness. |
| HPR 111 | Advanced Weight Training (1) Expands on basic weight training principles presented in HPR 108. Topics include split routines, supersets, breakdown sets, negatives, plyometrics, periodization training, nutritional supplements, and sport specific training. Prerequisite: HPR 108 or permission. |
| HPR 112 | Cross-Training for Personal Fitness (1) Provides students the opportunity to learn and apply contemporary methods of cross-training to ensure that their training regimen is beneficial and safe. Focus is on creating an individualized cross-training program for a specific sport. |
| HPR 114 | Water Aerobics (1) Provides aerobic exercise and total body conditioning and aquatic environment. Swimming proficiency not required. |
| HPR 116 | Water Polo (1) Provides opportunities for development of knowledge and skills needed for safe participation in water polo and to become better conditioned for aquatic sports. |
| HPR 117 | NIA: Holisitic Fitness (1) Neuromuscular Integrated Action (NIA) Technique is a mind, body, and spirit approach to whole body aerobic fitness. Blends elements of tai chi, tae kwon do, aikido, dance, yoga, Feldenkrais, and Alexander techniques. |
| HPR 118 | Pilates (1) Provides an introduction to pilates mat, including mind/body connection, flexibility, core muscle strength, stress reduction, posture improvement, and basic anatomy and physiology. |
| HPR 165 | Beginning Modern Dance (3) Teaches different styles of modern dance with an emphasis on anatomical awareness and rhythmic sensitivity. Expressional choreography and improvisations are introduced. (Also listed as FA 165.) |
| HPR 200 | Physical Activity (1-2) Includes skills and techniques of a specific physical activity or sport (see the current schedule of classes for the specific offering each semester). HPR 200 may be repeated for credit, but the same activity/sport may not be repeated for credit. |
| HPR 201 | Introduction to Health and Exercise Science (3) An introduction to the fields of health, fitness, and exercise science. Includes an overview of the health/fitness industry, current and future trends, and knowledge and skills needed in these fields. |
| HPR 202 | Exercise Physiology (3) Course focuses on energy metabolism in physical activity and its role in musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems in activity and physical fitness. |
| HPR 210 | First Aid and Safety (1) Trains the layperson to respond correctly in emergencies and to act as the first link in the emergency medical services system. |
| HPR 211 | Water Safety Instructor (2) Development of instructional skills and understanding of the teacher-pupil relationship leading to certification as Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. Prerequisite: basic swimming proficiency. |
| HPR 212 | Swimming Pool Management (1) Includes information needed to operate safe pools, spas, and therapy pools and to qualify for a pool operator's permit. |
| HPR 225 | Health Psychology (3) Examines the relationship between health knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors and health maintenance, illness prevention, and the diagnosis and treatment of disease. This course fulfills the Liberal Arts Core requirement for a health and wellness course. |
| HPR 230 | Community Health (3) Provides an overview of the field of community health, with emphasis on prevention of injuries, chronic, and communicable diseases. Focuses on private and public actions that promote, protect, and preserve the health of communities. Meets the Liberal Arts Core requirement for health. |
| HPR 260 | Introduction to Sports Medicine (3) Focuses on the role of athletic trainers and fitness personnel in conditioning, injury prevention, evaluation, and rehabilitation. Includes mechanisms of injury and tissue healing. |
| HPR 300 | Essentials of Personal Training (3) Provides learning instruction geared toward certification as a personal trainer, particularly a strength and conditioning specialist. The course focuses on: anatomy and physiology, exercise physiology, bioenergetics, and program design using concepts of strength, endurance, flexibility, power, and cardiovascular endurance. |
| HPR 301 | Health/Fitness Program Management (3) Studies organizational patterns, administrative problems, and supervisory techniques in health, fitness, and recreation agencies. Includes financial management, personnel, public relations, liability, evaluation, and facility management. |
| HPR 302 | Fitness and Health Assessment (3) Provides information and experience in the administration and interpretation of health risk appraisals and health-related fitness tests. Tests include blood pressure, body composition analysis, strength, endurance, flexibility assessment, and submaximal cycle erogometry. Prerequisite: HPR 202. |
| HPR 304 | Developing Physical Training Programs (3) Course covers basic principles of development of safe and individualized cardiovascular conditioning, muscular strength, and flexibility programs. Includes leadership techniques for aerobics and resistance training programs. Prerequisites: HPR 202 and HPR 302. |
| HPR 308 | Transcultural Concepts in Health and Illness (3) Provides an introduction to transcultural theories, concepts, and principles that help to explain the health care needs and responses of individuals and groups within the context of their cultures and subcultures. An emphasis is placed on the conduct of culturally competent assessments. (Also listed as NU 304.) |
| HPR 320 | Athletic Injury Recognition and Prevention (3) Provides advanced information in athletic training and sports medicine. Course focuses on emergency procedures, therapeutic modalities, sport pharmacology, and taping and orthotics, with application to specific musculoskeletal conditions. Prerequisite: HPR 260. |
| HPR 340 | Nutrition for Optimal Health (3) Examines the role of nutrition in maintaining health through the life span. Includes information on macro- and micronutrients, weight management, sports nutrition, and disease prevention. This course fulfills the Liberal Arts Core requirement for health. Prerequisite: EN 101. |
| HPR 361 | Sports Psychology (3) Introduces students to the depth and breadth of sports psychology, including its history, definition, ties with other disciplines, modern applications, and research techniques. Special attention is paid to the design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of pure and applied sports psychology research. Offered in spring only, alternating years. Prerequisite: PSY 101 or HPR 201. (Also listed as PSY 361.) |
| HPR 400 | Senior Internship (3-6) Offers students the opportunity for supervised, practical experience in organization and administration of physical fitness programs and further skills in direct leadership. Placement options include community, corporate, or commercial fitness/recreation facilities or within a sports medicine setting such as a physical therapy clinic. Students must complete 3-6 credit hours in the internship over one or two semesters. |
| HPR 406 | Stress Management (3) A holistic approach to understanding stress. Analysis of causative psychosocial stressors and intervening physiological mechanisms. Emphasis on prevention and control of stress through such techniques as meditation, exercise, biofeedback, nutrition, and neuromuscular relaxation. |
| HPR 410 | Anatomical Kinesiology and Cardiovascular Physiology (3) The study of functional anatomy, with an emphasis on the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems, and cardiovascular physiology, including microscopic and macroscopic study of the heart and blood vessels, the cardiac cycle, and electrical conductivity. Prerequisite: HPR 202. |
| HPR 415 | Applications in Human Performance (3) Applies the concepts of anatomical kinesiology to the practice of biomechanics and the concepts of cardiovascular physiology to the study of cardiac rehabilitation. Prerequisite: HPR 410. |
| HPR 421 | Project (3) An elective investigation of a selected topic in the major emphasis area under the direction of a faculty advisor. The project is intended to demonstrate ability to conduct independent research and present results in writing of commendable quality. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. |
| HPR 433 | Research (1-6) Collaborative research under the direction of a full-time faculty member. Refer to the Marymount Academic Research Initiative (MARI) guidelines. Prerequisite: approval of department chair. |