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1105  Flexibility for Sport and Exercise (1)
   Introduction to concepts involved with flexibility for fitness. Safe and enjoyable ways to increase flexibility. Short lectures along with workouts. Pre- and post-fitness appraisals will be done for student's own records.

1110  Aerobics: Elementary (1)
   For beginning students or those who have never taken aerobics. Development, improvement, and maintenance of aerobic fitness. Course includes a well-rounded workout, including warm-up, stretch, aerobic/cardiovascular exercise, cool down, and strengthening exercises.

1111  Aerobics (1)
   Development, improvement, and maintenance of aerobic fitness. Course includes a well-rounded workout, including warm-up, stretch, aerobic/cardiovascular exercise, cool down, and strengthening exercises.

1112  More Aerobics (1.5)
   Well-rounded workout, including warm-up, stretch, aerobic/cardiovascular exercise, cool down, and strengthening exercises. Course focuses on developing and/or improving aerobic skills and developing a healthy lifestyle. Information on anatomy and kinesiology to help students understand the mechanics of exercise.

1120  Bench Step Aerobics: Elementary (1)
   For beginning students or those who have never taken step aerobics. Well-rounded workout including warm-up exercises, step training, interval training, post-cardiovascular warm down, isolation exercises, and cool-down stretches. Information on anatomy and kinesiology to help the student understand the mechanics of the exercises used as well as proper technique, purpose, and current industry safety guidelines.

1121  Bench Step Aerobics (1)
   Well-rounded workout including warm-up exercises, step training, interval training, post-cardiovascular warm down, isolation exercises, and cool-down stretches. Information on anatomy and kinesiology to help the student understand the mechanics of the exercises used as well as proper technique, execution, purpose, and current industry safety guidelines.

1122  More Bench Step Aerobics (1.5)
   Well-rounded workout, including warm-up, cardiovascular training, floor work, cool down and final stretch. Fitness information to enable the student to better understand the terminology used in class and to gain full benefit from personal workouts.

1130  Walking for Fitness (1)
   Course is designed to educate and improve in the areas of body composition, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, and muscular endurance.

1131  More Walking for Fitness (1.5)
   Course is designed to educate and improve in the areas of body composition, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, and muscular endurance.

1140  Jogging for Fitness (1)
   Introduces practical skills and principles of jogging, providing practical experience with jogging under different conditions, and providing a background of knowledge to train (jog/run) in the future. Specific runs for particular classes will be planned to match the students' progress. There will be a lot of jogging.

1141  More Jogging for Fitness (1.5)
   Introduces practical skills and principles of jogging, providing practical experience with jogging under different conditions, and providing a background of knowledge to train (jog/run) in the future. Specific runs for particular classes will be planned to match the students' progress. There will be a lot of jogging.

1150  Marathon Training (1.5)
   Helps students prepare to run in a marathon.

1155  Triathlon Training (1.5)
   Helps students prepare to participate in a triathlon.

1160  Weight Training: Elementary (1)
   Introduces technical skills and principles of weight training, instruction on proper safety guidelines, training principles, lifting techniques, and program design so the student can effectively participate in and experience the benefits from a resistive training program.

1161  Weight Training: Intermediate (1.5)
   Develops and/or improves upon weight training skills learned at the beginning level. Many of the skills and concepts stressed in Elementary Weight Training will be expanded. Basic anatomy and kinesiology of weight lifting and strategies for strength, size, and/or endurance gains will be covered.

1162  Weight Training: Advanced (1.5)
   Designed to advance the student's technical knowledge of weight training theory and practice with an emphasis on program design, Olympic lifts, plyometrics and other advanced weight training techniques.

1163  Circuit Training (2)
   This course is designed to introduce the benefits of circuit training. The course includes a combination of various weight training stations as well as cardiovascular stations designed to improve muscular strength, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular fitness.

1170  Ski Conditioning (1.5)
   Designed to get students ready for the upcoming ski season. Training principles, practices, and safety techniques.

1180  Mountain Biking: Elementary (1)
   Basic skill development and training for mountain biking.

1181  Mountain Biking: Intermediate (1)
   Training principles and advanced riding skills for mountain biking.

1190  Cycling: Elementary (1)
   Indoor Spin. Rides tailored to meet the needs and abilities of every person enrolled.

1191  Cycling: Intermediate (1)
   May include indoor spin or outdoor cycling. Rides tailored to meet the needs and abilities of every person enrolled.

1196  In-line Skating: Elementary (1)

1197  In-line Skating: Intermediate (1)

1210  Basketball: Level I (1)
   Basic basketball skills. Students learn basic offensive and defensive basketball skills, team strategies (both offensive and defensive), and the rules of basketball.

1211  Basketball: Level II (1)
   Focus on improving basketball skills. More advanced offensive and defensive skills, and team strategies.

1220  Soccer: Elementary (1)
   Developing the basic skills of the game. Dribbling, passing, rules, and basic strategy will be the emphasis.

1221  Soccer: Intermediate (1)
   Intermediate skills and tactics of soccer.

1230  Softball: Elementary (1)
   Developing and/or improving basic softball skills. Students will be able to perform the fundamental skills associated with softball, understand the basic rules, and understand basic strategy.

1231  Softball: Intermediate (1)
   Improving knowledge of the rules and game strategy. Also important is training for a safer season of softball.

1240  Field Hockey (1)
   Basic technique and learning the rules of the game.

1250  Lacrosse (1)
   Basic technique and learning the rules of the game.

1260  Volleyball: Elementary (1)
   Beginning to develop the basic skills needed in order to effectively compete/play the game of volleyball. Strategies and rules of the game.

1261  Volleyball: Intermediate (1)
   Learn strategies for offense and defense while continuing to improve individual skills.

1262  Volleyball: Advanced (1)
   Competitive class meant to develop advanced training and skills.

1263  Volleyball: Outdoor (1)
   Competitive class to develop advanced training and skills.

1270  Squash: Elementary (1)
   Group and individual instruction for the beginning squash player. All aspects of the hard and soft ball game. Squash is a game that can be enjoyed by all people at all skill levels and at all ages. It is a sport that provides the opportunity to explore physical and intellectual skills while providing excellent aerobic exercise.

1271  Squash: Intermediate (1)
   Designed to improve the competitive skills of the game and learn game strategies.

1280  Badminton: Elementary (1)
   Developing and/or improving the basic skills needed to actively enjoy the sport of badminton. Students will learn to perform the fundamental strokes, understand the basic rules and strategy.

1281  Badminton: Intermediate (1)
   Ways to improve your badminton technique and strategy.

1290  Tennis: Elementary (1)
   Fundamental tennis strokes with emphasis on consistency and placement of shots, effective use of strategies for singles and doubles play, development and discussion of various grips and spins. Tennis scoring, etiquette, and court markings.

1291  Tennis: Intermediate (1)
   Improvement of fundamental tennis strokes with an emphasis on consistency, placement, and depth of shots, effective use of strategies for singles and doubles play, improvement of court movement through drills and match play, and development and discussion of specialized strokes including various grips and spins.

1292  Tennis: Advanced (1)
   Improvement of fundamental tennis strokes with emphasis on consistency, placement, and depth of shots. Effective use of strategies for singles and doubles play. Improvement of court movement through drills and match play. Development and discussion of specialized strokes including various grips and spins.

1300  Racquetball: Elementary (1)
   Basic skills required to play racquetball, strategies for proper serves and strokes, and the fundamental strategies with offensive and defensive play.

1301  Racquetball: Intermediate (1)
   Refinement of skills necessary for successful participation in the game of racquetball. Rules, basic skills, serve, offensive shots, defensive shots,and game strategy.

1302  Racquetball: Advanced (1)
   Course for high-skill players who want to learn more about strategies and techniques.

1310  Bowling: Elementary (1)
   Basic fundamentals of the game. Ball selection, rules and etiquette, pendulum swing, four-step approach and delivery. Techniques of spot and pin bowling. Students will learn to compute their average and handicap for use in competition.

1311  Bowling: Intermediate (1)
   Basic fundamentals of the game. Ball selection, rules and etiquette, pendulum swing, four-step approach and delivery.

1312  Bowling: Advanced (1)

1320  Golf: Elementary (1)
   Basic golf swing. Student will be able to successfully hit golf balls, play a round of golf, and understand more clearly the game of golf (rules, etiquette, course management, etc.)

1321  Golf: Intermediate (1)
   Golf is a game for everyone. Course will help improve on the skills learned in the elementary class.

1322  Golf: Advanced (1)
   Course management and advanced techniques.

1330  Fencing: Elementary (1)
   Basics for the beginner.

1331  Fencing: Intermediate (1)
   Rules, training, and strategies.

1332  Fencing: Advanced (1)
   Course picks up where intermediate fencing left off. Training and strategy.

1340  Ice Skating (1)
   Learn to skate. Course for the person who has never skated.

1341  Ice Skating: Intermediate (1)
   Techniques and training to improve ice skating.

1350  Gymnastics: Elementary (1)
   Focuses on understanding and developing basic skills of tumbling. Students will learn to: understand and perform basic tumbling skills; understand basic principles of tumbling, and; understand the conditioning involved in this sport. Students will learn to do rolls, handstands, cartwheels, roundoffs, and front- and back-handsprings.

1351  Gymnastics: Intermediate (1)
   Focus on understanding and developing basic and intermediate skills of tumbling. Students will learn to: understand and perform intermediate tumbling skills; understand principles of tumbling, and; understand the conditioning involved in this sport. Students will learn to do roundoffs, handsprings, back- and front-tucks, and multiple-salto passes.

1352  Gymnastics: Advanced (1)

1400  Ice Skating - Level I (1)
   This is an activity class, which allows students to select among the following three instructional areas: knowledge of figure skating, ice hockey, and other ice sports in a fun and safe environment.

1500  Swimming: Elementary (1)
   For students who are non-swimmers or beginning swimmers. Basic water safety skills and knowledge, and beginning swimming strokes skills will be introduced. This course will assist in overcoming fear of the water, provide practice in breath control, give practice in maintaining prone and supine positions in the water, teach proper water entry, introduce personal safety skills, and give instruction on beginning swimming strokes.

1501  Swimming: Intermediate (1)
   Structured for students who are swimmers and focuses on refining the technical skills of swimming strokes. The program helps to develop aerobic capacity and swimming-specific endurance.

1502  Swimming: Advanced (1.5)
   Focuses on developing and/or improving swimming skills learned at the intermediate level. All four competitive strokes will be evaluated, discussed, and refined. Emphasizes aerobic fitness training using the front crawl. Strategies, methods, and techniques for fitness training and stroke refinement will be discussed.

1505  Learn to Swim (1)
   Designed for the person who does not know how to swim and wants to learn.

1510  Aquacise (1.5)
   Familiarizes students with the benefits of a water workout and increase general well-being and fitness level.

1520  Aqua Tone (1.5)
   The primary objective is to increase the general well-being and fitness level of each participant. Aqua-tone is a complete body workout. It improves coordination, reflexes, flexibility, and aerobic fitness as it builds a strong body.

1530  Water Polo (1)
   Provides instruction and practice in basic offensive and defensive procedures relative to a beginning level of water polo competition.

1531  Water Polo: Intermediate (1)
   Focuses on individual skill improvement, offensive and defensive strategy.

1540  Diving: Elementary (1)
   For students who want to learn to dive. Safety will be the main focus of this class.

1541  Diving: Intermediate (1)
   For the person who knows how to dive, but wants to improve skills and training.

1550  Basic Scuba: Open Water (1.5) Prerequisite: Must be able to swim 200 yds. without stopping

1551  Advanced Scuba: Open Water (1) Prerequisite: ESS 1550.

1552  Scuba Rescue Diver (1.5) Prerequisite: ESS 1551

1553  Scuba Divemaster (1.5) Prerequisite: ESS 1552

1560  Lifeguarding (3)

1570  Water Safety (2)

1580  Kayaking: Elementary (1)
   Covers the basic fundamentals of kayaking: basic strokes, bracing, equipment, and safety.

1581  Kayaking: Intermediate (1) Prerequisite: ESS 1580 or equivalent.
   Prereq.: ESS 222 or equivalent.

1582  Kayaking: Advanced (1) Prerequisite: ESS 1581

1600  Ballroom Dance: Elementary (2)

1601  Swing Dance (2)

1602  Ballroom Dance: Advanced (2)

1610  Latin American Dance: Elementary (1)

1611  Latin American Dance: Intermediate (1)

1620  Tap Dance: Elementary (1)

1621  Tap Dance: Intermediate (1)

1630  Folk Dance: Elementary (1)

1631  Folk Dance: Intermediate (1)

1640  Western Dance: Elementary (1)
   Learn to dance to today's popular country and western music. Iincludes instruction in Texas Two-Step, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Cowboy Polka, and more.

1641  Western Dance: Intermediate (1)

1700  Yoga: Elementary (1)

1701  Yoga: Intermediate (1)

1702  Yoga: Advanced (1)

1703  Yoga for Sport: Elementary (1)
   Helps prepare the athlete in all of us for more enjoyable sport participation.

1704  Yoga for Sport: Intermediate (1)
   Increases strength, flexibility, and awareness for participating in sports.

1710  Tai Chi: Elementary (1)
   Focuses on slow movements used to improve balance, coordination, concentration, awareness and timing. The student will learn the short form of Tai Chi Chuan and focus the mind on the body during exercise, sports and daily life.

1711  Tai Chi: Intermediate (1)

1720  Judo: Elementary (1)

1721  Judo: Intermediate (1)

1730  Tae Kwon Do: Elementary (1)
   Focuses on self-defense techniques, body conditioning to develop flexibility, endurance, agility, balance, mind-body coordination, control, speed of concentration and execution, internal power, promoting martial virtues such as chivalry, loyalty, discipline, restraint, humility, and respect for human life. Students will advance martial art skills, learn the next forms/patterns and techniques to advance in rank, develop flexibility, toughness, and agility,and learn about the history and philosophy of the martial arts.

1731  Tae Kwon Do: Intermediate (1)
   Focuses on self-defense techniques, body conditioning to develop flexibility, endurance, agility, balance, mind-body coordination, control, speed of concentration and execution, internal power, promoting martial virtues such as chivalry, loyalty, discipline, restraint, humility, and respect for human life. Students will advance martial art skills, learn the next forms/patterns and techniques to advance in rank, develop flexibility, toughness, and agility,and learn about the history and philosophy of the martial arts.

1740  Aikido: Elementary (1)
   Provides self-defense techniques to learn self-confidence and self-control. This course teaches forward and backward rolls, the first three basic arts of Aikido (overhead chop, side chop, lapel chop), mind and body coordination through four basic principals of Aikido, and general self-defense techniques.

1741  Aikido: Intermediate (1)
   Enhances skills learned in Elementary Aikido.

1750  Martial Arts: Elementary (1)

1751  Martial Arts: Intermediate (1)

1760  Self Defense (1)

1770  Karate: Elementary (1)

1771  Karate: Intermediate (1)

1850  Selected Topics (1 to 3)
   Covers various topics to enhance fitness levels.

1923  Physical Education for the Disabled (1 to 2)
   Offered to any University of Utah student, faculty member, or staff employee with a disability. Course content is determined by assessing the fitness level of the class members and designing a physical-education program to meet each member's individual needs. Individual goals are established in the areas of physical fitness, motor skills, aquatics, and/or individual and group games. However, the emphasis of the class is on improving the physical fitness levels of the class members. The primary activities in the class include weight training, jogging, biking on a tandem bike or stationary bike, armcrank ergometry work, swimming, and/or flexibility exercises.