ESS-101w Walking for Health and Fitness

Course title: ESS 101w Walking for Fitness

Campus: National

Initiator: Dana Lee Ling

Date: 05 November 2021

Course description

This semester-long course is designed to develop a habit of walking, improve health, and to give students an appreciation of the role regular physical activity plays in the quality of life. Students will learn walking specific anatomy and physiology. Physical fitness levels will be measured at the beginning and end of the course, allowing students to notice the improvements regular exercise produces. Course topics also include injury identification and prevention specific to fitness walking.

Hours per Week

No. of Weeks

Total Hours

Semester Credits

Lecture

x

x

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Laboratory

3

x

16

x

48

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1

Lecture/Lab

x

x

=

Workshop

x

x

=

Total Semester

Credits

=

1

PSLO#

Program

None

None

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1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.

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2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum.

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3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.

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4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.

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5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.

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6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.

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7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning: purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.

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8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.

CSLO (General) 1: Develop a habit of daily walking.

Student Learning Outcome (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

1.1 Demonstrate the ability to walk, at a minimum, a daily mile allowing for up to two rest days per week.

7*

5.1

Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to walk, at a minimum, a daily mile allowing for up to two rest days per week by using the Strava application on a smartphone to document the walks; walking, at a minimum, five days each week during the duration of the term.

CSLO (General) 2. Make assessments of their own physical fitness.

Student Learning Outcomes (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

2.1 Determine their own resting and post-exercise pulse rate

7

5.1

Students will be able to determine their own resting and post-exercise pulse rate by self-reported measurements that are submitted as assignments.

2.2 Calculate their VO₂ max

7

5.1

Students will be able to calculate their VO₂ max by using a walking test to determine estimated VO₂ and report as submitted assignments.

CSLO (General) 3. Demonstrate the knowledge necessary to support healthy fitness walking.

Student Learning Outcomes (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

3.1 Identify the five factors of physical fitness

7

5.1

Students will be able to identify the five factors of physical fitness on quizzes and tests.

3.2 Demonstrate a knowledge of walking specific anatomy and physiology

7

5.1

Students will be able to demonstrate a knowledge of walking specific anatomy and physiology on quizzes and tests.

3.3 Identify their own foot type and the appropriate footwear for their foot type.

7

5.1

Students will be able to identify their own foot type and the appropriate footwear for their foot type by performing the wet foot test and submitting their self-assessment as an assignment.

3.4 Demonstrate a knowledge of proper walking technique and gait cycle.

7

5.1

Students will be able to demonstrate a knowledge of proper walking technique and gait cycle on quizzes and tests.

3.5 Demonstrate a knowledge of hydration, heat illnesses that impact walking for fitness.

7

5.1

Students will be able to demonstrate a knowledge of hydration, heat illnesses that impact walking for fitness on quizzes and tests.

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