May 18, 2024  
2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions


 

Middle Level Education

  
  • MLED 495 - Practicum

    Common Course Number & Description
    Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
    Registration Restriction: Admitted to Teacher Ed
    1 to 3 semester hours

Military Science

  
  • MSL 101 - Leaderships and Personal Development

    Common Course Number & Description
    Make your first peer group at college one committed to performing well and enjoying the experience. Increase self-confidence through team study and activities in basic drill, physical fitness, rappelling, leadership reaction course, first aid, making presentations and basic marksmanship. Learn fundamental concepts of leadership in a profession in both classroom and outdoor laboratory environments.
    1 semester hours
  
  • MSL 101L - Leadership and Personal Development Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Designed to accompany MSL 101. Provides the students with hands-on experience to supplement and reinforce classroom instruction. Subjects addressed include drill and ceremonies, physical fitness training, marksmanship, first aid, rappelling and basic mountaineering skills. Voluntary off campus activities reinforce course work.
    1 semester hours
  
  • MSL 102 - Introduction to Tactical Leadership

    Common Course Number & Description
    Learn and apply principles of effective leadership. Reinforce self-confidence through participation in physically and mentally challenging exercise with upper-division ROTC students. Develop communication skills to improve individual performance and group interaction. Relate organizational ethical values to the effectiveness of a leader.
    1 semester hours
  
  • MSL 102L - Introduction to Tactical Leadership Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Designed to accompany MSL 102. Provides the student with hands-on experience to supplement and reinforce classroom instruction. Subjects addressed include drill and ceremonies, physical fitness training, marksmanship, first aid, rappelling and basic mountaineering skills. Voluntary off campus activities reinforce course work.
    1 semester hours
  
  • MSL 201 - Innovative Team Leadership

    Common Course Number & Description
    Learn/apply ethics-based leadership skills that develop individual abilities and contribute to the building of effective teams of people. Develop skills in oral presentations, writing concisely, planning events, coordination of group efforts, advanced first aid, land navigation, and basic military tactics. Learn fundamentals of ROTC’s leadership assessment program.
    1 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 201L - Innovative Team Leadership Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Students will develop leadership and management skills by being given the opportunity to perform duties in various leadership positions. Emphasis is placed on the development of leadership and managerial skills. Course is supplemented with instruction on the use of a lensatic compass and a topographic map, as well as various survival skills. Voluntary off campus activities reinforce course work.
    1 semester hours
  
  • MSL 202 - Foundations of Tactical Leadership

    Common Course Number & Description
    Introduction to individual and team aspects of military tactics in small unit operations. Includes use of radio communications, making safety assessments, movement techniques, planning for team safety/security and methods of pre-execution checks. Practical exercises with upper-division ROTC students. Learn techniques for training others as an aspect of continued leadership development.
    1 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 202L - Foundations of Tactical Leadership Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Students are provided the opportunity to reinforce classroom leadership and management training with practical experience. Students will also receive training in small unit tactics and use of the M-16 rifle. Voluntary off campus activities reinforce course work.
    1 semester hours
  
  • MSL 290 - Basic Small Unit Leadership

    Common Course Number & Description
    A highly focused, and topical course. The format includes student presentations and discussions of reports based on literature, practices, problems, and research. Seminars may be conducted over electronic media such as internet and are at the upper division or graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than 20 students.
    2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 291 - Internship in Leadership I

    Common Course Number & Description
    Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MSL 294 - ROTC Summer Leadership Internship

    Common Course Number & Description
    Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
    4 semester hours
  
  • MSL 301 - Adaptive Team Leadership

    Common Course Number & Description
    Series of practical opportunities to lead small groups, receive personal assessments and encouragement, and lead again in situations of increasing complexity. Uses small unit tactics and opportunities to plan and conduct training for lower division students both to develop such skills and as vehicles for practicing leadership.
    CoRequisite: MSL-301L
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MSL 301L - Adaptive Team Leadership Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Provides the student with practical experience to supplement and reinforce classroom instruction. Subjects include drill and ceremonies, physical training instruction techniques and leadership, which will complement the student’s preparation of ROTC advanced camp. Off campus.
    CoRequisite: MSL-301
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 302 - Leadership in Changing Environments

    Common Course Number & Description
    Continues methodology of MSL 301. Analyze tasks; prepare written or oral guidance for team members to accomplish tasks. Delegate tasks and supervise. Plan for and adapt to the unexpected in organizations under stress. Examine and apply lessons from leadership case studies. Examine importance of ethical decision making in setting a positive climate that enhances team performance.
    PreRequisite: MSL-301
    CoRequisite: MSL-302L
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MSL 302L - Leadership in Changing Environments Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Accompanies MSL 302.
    CoRequisite: MSL-302
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 394 - Advanced Military Science Internship

    Common Course Number & Description
    Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
    4 semester hours
  
  • MSL 401 - Developing Adaptive Leaders

    Common Course Number & Description
    Introduces formal management skills including problem analysis, planning techniques, and the delegation and control of activities, providing an understanding of the command and staff organization used in the modern army and creating a forum for discussing professional and ethical decisions faced by commissioned officers.
    CoRequisite: MSL-401L
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MSL 401L - Developing Adaptive Leaders Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Designed to accompany MSL 401
    CoRequisite: MSL-401
    1 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 402 - Leadership in a Complex World

    Common Course Number & Description
    Provides information for transition to active or reserve commissioned service, developing administrative controls essential in managing a military organization, introducing the management of financial and personal affairs, and allowing time for discussion and analysis of the ethical decision-making process.
    CoRequisite: MSL-402L
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MSL 402L - Leadership in a Complex World Lab Leaders/Officership Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Designed to accompany MSL 402.
    CoRequisite: MSL-402
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MSL 403 - Third Year Advanced Military Science

    Common Course Number & Description
    Provides a transition to entering active or reserve commissioned service, including an in-depth study of military decision making, giving experience in planning and conducting squad and platoon level military exercises and leadership.
    PreRequisite: MSL-401 MSL-402
    2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 404 - Third Year Advanced Military Science

    Common Course Number & Description
    Provides an in-depth study of military decision-making, giving experience in planning and conducting military exercises at squad and platoon level, including an opportunity to develop leadership techniques.
    PreRequisite: MSL-401 MSL-402
    2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 411 - Developing Subordinate Leaders I

    Common Course Number & Description
    Provides practical experience supplementing and reinforcing classroom instruction, including drill and ceremonies, physical fitness training, instruction techniques, and operation of the cadet battalion. Off-campus training required.
    2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 412 - Developing Subordinate Leaders II

    Common Course Number & Description
    Provides practical experience supplementing and reinforcing classroom instruction, including drill and ceremonies, physical fitness training, instructional techniques, small unit leadership and familiarization with duties of commissioned officers. Off-campus training is required.
    2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 480 - Advanced Small Unit Leadership

    Common Course Number & Description
    Provides practical experience in small unit leadership development, team building, and officers' technical/tactical skills, including rifle marksmanship, orienteering, mountaineering, weapons proficiency, physical training, and small unit leadership skills.
    Note: May be repeated for a maximum of four (4) credit hours.
    PreRequisite:  
    2 semester hours
  
  • MSL 491 - Advanced Internship in Leadership

    Common Course Number & Description
    Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MSL 494 - Leader Development and Assessment Course

    Common Course Number & Description
    Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
    1 to 4 semester hours

Modern Foreign Languages

  
  • MFL 420 - K-12 Foreign Language Methods

    Common Course Number & Description
    Methods and materials for teaching modern languages in high school.
    3 semester hours

Music Ed/Theory/Lit

  
  • MUS 100 - Music Appreciation

    Common Course Number & Description
    A non-technical discussion designed to increase the enjoyment and appreciation of music. Fulfills the music requirement in the general education program.
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 110 - Basic Music Theory I

    Common Course Number & Description
    An integrated study and application of tonality, melody, harmony, texture and form, from music notation through modulation. Includes sight singing, ear training and dictation. Introduction to composition and arranging, i.e. instrument ranges, transposition, tessitura and preliminary score analysis.
    2 to 4 semester hours
  
  • MUS 110L - Basic Music Theory I Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Students will be taught sight singing and dictation skills that will prepare them to see with their ears and hear with their eyes. Students will learn simple to advanced applications of writing down music from aural performance, and learn to quickly analyze melodies by singing them at sight.
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 111 - Basic Music Theory II

    Common Course Number & Description
    An integrated study and application of tonality, melody, harmony, texture and form, from music notation through modulation. Includes sight singing, ear training and dictation. Introduction to composition and arranging, i.e. instrument ranges, transposition, tessitura and preliminary score analysis
    PreRequisite: MUS-110
    2 to 4 semester hours
  
  • MUS 111L - Basic Music Theory II Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Students will be taught singing and diction skills that will prepare them to see with their ears and hear with their eyes. Students will learn simple to advanced applications of writing down music from aural performance, and learn to quickly analyze melodies by singing them at sight.
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 130 - Music Literature

    Unique Course
    An introductory survey of Western-European music from the Baroque period to the 20th century. This class is required for music majors and minors; previous music reading experience is required.
    PreRequisite: MUS-110
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 200 - American Music

    Unique Course
    A course in the music of the United States designed for students with or without previous musical training. The various styles of American music will be studied in order to develop musical perception and a better understanding of the role of music in American Culture.
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 210 - Advanced Music Theory I

    Common Course Number & Description
    A more advanced continuation of MUS 110, 111 with similar objectives and organization. A continuation of vocal/instrumental arranging and composition.
    PreRequisite: MUS-111
    2 to 4 semester hours
  
  • MUS 210L - Advanced Music Theory I Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Students will be taught sight singing and diction skills that will prepare them to see with their ears and hear with their eyes. Students will learn simple to advanced applications of writing down music from aural performance, and learn to quickly analyze melodies by singing them at sight.
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 211 - Advanced Music Theory II

    Common Course Number & Description
    More advanced continuation of MUS 110, 111 with similar objectives and organization. A continuation of vocal/instrumental arranging and composition.
    PreRequisite: MUS-210
    2 to 4 semester hours
  
  • MUS 211L - Advanced Music Theory II Lab

    Common Course Number & Description
    Students will be taught sight singing and diction skills that will prepare them to see with their ears and hear with their eyes. Students will learn simple to advanced applications of writing down music from aural performance, and learn to quickly analyze melodies by singing them at sight.
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 235 - Music Theatre in America

    Unique Course
    This class is a survey of American musical theatre with an emphasis upon its significant and unique contributions to United States popular culture. Through audio and video recordings, slides, demonstrations & visits to live performances, the course traces the musical’s relationship to opera, to such nineteenth century popular entertainments as minstrelsy, vaudeville and burlesque as well as to contemporary popular song and dance forms.
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 292 - Topics

    Common Course Number & Description
    Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    1 to 5 semester hours
  
  • MUS 330 - Music History I

    Unique Course
    This course is a study of music styles from antiquity to the 18th century.
    PreRequisite: MUS-130 or MUS-100
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 331 - Music History II

    Unique Course
    This continues the study of the music from 1800 to the present day.
    PreRequisite: MUS-130 or MUS-100
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 341 - Vocal Pedagogy and Literature

    Unique Course
    A course designed to help students gain a better understanding of the vocal mechanism, its physiology and correct usage. Students will study the basic techniques of singing and methods for the teaching of singing. Topics such as acoustics, breathing, registration, resonance, vowels, articulation and the developing voice will be explored. In addition, students will survey the Art Song with an emphasis on song literature particularly suitable for school age pupils.
    2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 351 - Elementary School Music Methods

    Common Course Number & Description
    This course provides methods and materials for guiding elementary students’ musical growth.
    2 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 352 - Music in the Elementary School II

    Unique Course
    This course is a continuation of MUS 351 and includes music education topics such as early childhood education, special needs children, and junior high methods.
    PreRequisite: MUS-351
    2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 353 - K-8 Music Methods

    Common Course Number & Description
    Students develop an understanding of tools of inquiry of K-8 music; the ability to design, deliver, and evaluate a variety of instructional strategies and processes that incorporate learning resources, materials, technologies, and state and national curriculum standards appropriate to K-8 music; the ability to assess student learning in K-8 music; and to apply these knowledge, skills, and attitudes to real life situations and experiences.
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 360 - Conducting

    Common Course Number & Description
    General conducting focuses on the basic fundamentals of instrumental and choral conducting. The techniques of interpretation, score reading, rehearsal techniques, and the art of developing basic conducting techniques are addressed in the course.
    PreRequisite: MUS-111
    2 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 372 - Methods & Materials of Teaching Piano

    Unique Course
    This course includes study of the problems in organizing and administrating a school instrumental program. Such topics as budgets, rehearsal techniques, equipment purchase and maintenance, marching band techniques and show design, and scheduling will be covered.
    PreRequisite: MUS-110
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 373 - Woodwind Instrumental Methods

    Unique Course
    This practical course is designed to acquaint the student with the techniques needed to teach the woodwind instruments used in public school instrumental programs.
    2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 374 - Percussion Instrumental Methods

    Unique Course
    This practical course is designed to acquaint the students with the techniques needed to teach the percussion instruments used in public school instrumental programs.
    1 semester hours
  
  • MUS 375 - Brass Instrumental Methods

    Unique Course
    This practical course is designed to acquaint the student with the techniques needed to teach the brass instruments used in public school instrumental programs.
    2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 377 - String Instrumental Methods

    Unique Course
    This is a practical course designed to acquaint the student with the techniques needed to teach the string instruments used in the public school instrumental program.
    2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 420 - Orchestration & Arranging

    Common Course Number & Description
    A study of instruments alone and in combinations. Orchestration and arranging for instrumental and vocal ensembles. Preparation of parts and participation in the conducting and performing of works scored.
    PreRequisite: MUS-211
    2 to 3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 456 - Instrumental Materials & Techniques

    Unique Course
    This course includes study of the problems in organizing and administering a school instrumental program. Such topics as budgets, rehearsal techniques, equipment purchase and maintenance, marching band techniques and show design, and scheduling will be covered.
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 458 - Choral Materials & Techniques

    Unique Course
    This course includes study of the problems in organizing and administrating a school choral music department. Such topics as budgets, preparing for the concert, music purchases, rehearsal techniques and scheduling will be covered.
    3 semester hours
  
  • MUS 467 - Advanced Conducting

    Unique Course
    A more comprehensive and practical approach to the problems of conducting various instrumental and vocal ensembles will be studied.
    PreRequisite: MUS-111 MUS-360 MUEN-100 MUEN-104 MUEN-122
    2 semester hours
  
  • MUS 491 - Independent Study

    Common Course Number & Description
    Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meetings depending upon the requirements of the topic.
    1 to 4 semester hours
  
  • MUS 492 - Topics

    Common Course Number & Description
    Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    1 to 5 semester hours
  
  • MUS 494 - Internship

    Unique Course
    Applied, monitored and supervised, field-based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in this course.
    Note: This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
    PreRequisite:  
    1 to 16 semester hours

Music Ensemble

  
  • MUEN 100 - Concert Choir

    Common Course Number & Description
    An ensemble performing accompanied and unaccompanied literature for mixed voices.
    Note: Membership determined by instructor's permission and audition only.
    PreRequisite:  
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 104 - Chamber Singers

    Common Course Number & Description
    Specialization in the Chamber literature of early through contemporary periods.
    Note: Membership determined by instructor's permission and audition only.
    PreRequisite:  
    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 121 - Symphonic Band

    Common Course Number & Description
    Members are selected by audition to perform the finest in original and transcribed literature in concert performances on and off-campus.
    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 122 - Concert Band

    Common Course Number & Description
    A joint enterprise open to university students and interested area musicians. Includes rehearsals and performance of band literature culminating in a public performance.
    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 131 - Small Vocal Ensemble

    Unique Course
    (Black Hills Gold) A highly select group of twelve (12) to sixteen (16) singers and instrumental combo of four (4) to eight (8) which specializes in madrigals popular music and vocal jazz.
    Cross-listed: (Also offered as MUEN 331)

    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 180 - Jazz Ensemble

    Common Course Number & Description
    Gives students the opportunity to experience and perform music in the popular idiom and to relate it to practical use in secondary school music programs.
    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 300 - Concert Choir

    Common Course Number & Description
    An ensemble performing accompanied and unaccompanied literature for mixed voices.
    Note: Membership determined by instructor's permission and audition only.
    PreRequisite:  
    0 to 2 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 304 - Chamber Singers

    Common Course Number & Description
    Specialization in the Chamber literature of early through contemporary periods.
    Note: Membership determined by instructor's permission and audition only.
    PreRequisite:  
    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 322 - Concert Band

    Common Course Number & Description
    A joint enterprise open to University students and interested area musicians. Includes rehearsals and performance of ban literature culminating in a public performance.
    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 331 - Small Vocal Ensemble

    Unique Course
    (Black Hills Gold) A highly select group of twelve (12) to sixteen (16) singers and instrumental combo of four (4) to eight (8) which specializes in madrigals, popular music, and vocal jazz.
    Cross-listed: (Also offered as MUEN 131)

    0 to 1 semester hours
  
  • MUEN 380 - Jazz Ensemble

    Common Course Number & Description
    Gives students the opportunity to experience and perform music in the popular idiom and to relate it to practical use in secondary school music programs.
    0 to 1 semester hours

Outdoor Education

  
  • OE 292 - Topics

    Unique Course
    Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    Note: This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
    PreRequisite:  
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • OE 310 - Outdoor Education Programs

    Unique Course
    This course provides training in several nationally known environmental and outdoor education programs. The use of these programs in designing a comprehensive outdoor education curriculum and how these programs meet state curriculum standards will be discussed. Programs such as Project Wild, Project Learning Tree, Project Wet, Project Adventure, Leave No Trace, Beyond Fair Chase, The Leopold Project and others will be taught.
    3 semester hours
  
  • OE 350 - Environmental Interpretation

    Unique Course
    This course provides front line interpretive skills. Oral presentations utilizing these skills and hands on props, visual aids, and power point will be emphasized. Nationally recognized interpretive certification programs will be introduced. The end of the course requires membership in the National Association for Interpretation.
    3 semester hours
  
  • OE 376 - Technology Integration

    Unique Course
    This course explores the technological, written, and design skills required for environmental brochures, signage, exhibits, publicity releases, newsletters, web site evaluation, advanced search techniques, and link design. 3
    3 semester hours
  
  • OE 492 - Topics

    Unique Course
    Includes Current Topics, Advanced Topics, and Special Topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement.
    Note: This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
    PreRequisite:  
    1 to 3 semester hours
  
  • OE 494 - Internship

    Unique Course
    Applied, monitored and supervised, field based learning experience for which the student may or may not be paid. Students gain practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study. A higher level of supervision is provided by the instructor in these courses than is the case with field experience courses.
    Note: This course requires permission of the Instructor and/or College Dean.
    PreRequisite:  
    1 to 12 semester hours

Philosophy

  
  • PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy

    Common Course Number & Description
    Introduces competing philosophical views of reality, perception, learning, and values, emphasizing their relevance to the contemporary world.
    3 semester hours
  
  • PHIL 200 - Introduction to Logic

    Common Course Number & Description
    Introduces the formal study of argumentation, including forms of logic, inductive and deductive reasoning, proofs, refutations, and fallacies.
    3 semester hours
  
  • PHIL 220 - Introduction to Ethics

    Common Course Number & Description
    Examines the major currents and components of ethical theory from classical times to the present, investigating problems arising from specific theories, as well as critically analyzing the validity of these theories for current ethical concerns.
    3 semester hours
  
  • PHIL 492 - Topics

    Common Course Number & Description
    Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually of 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement.
    1 to 5 semester hours

Physical Education

  
  • PE 100 - Aerobic Dance

    Common Course Number & Description
    The use of dance activities in aerobic development is the focus for this course. A variety of choreographed movements will be used.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Aerobics

    Common Course Number & Description
    The emphasis of this course is to develop a basic understanding and appreciation of aerobic development. A variety of activities will be studied.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Aquatics Exercise

    Common Course Number & Description
    This course is designed to improve the student’s flexibility, muscle tone and aerobic ability through a variety of water experiences.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Archery

    Common Course Number & Description
    This is a beginner’s course for the student with little or no experience. Instinctive shooting on indoor targets with re-curve bows is done, with time also being spent on equipment knowledge and safety measures.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Badminton

    Common Course Number & Description
    This is a beginning course designed to present fundamental skills and strategy along with rules. The role of badminton as a lifetime recreational activity is stressed.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Basketball

    Common Course Number & Description
    This course stresses the development of fundamental skills such as shooting, passing and dribbling, along with rules.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Bowling

    Common Course Number & Description
    This is a beginner’s course designed for those who have never bowled, or who have very little experience. Emphasis will be placed on fundamental skills, scoring and terminology.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Canoeing

    Common Course Number & Description
    This course is for beginners, or those with little experience. Basic canoeing skills, terminology, and water safety are the focus of this course.
    PreRequisite: Prerequisite: PE 120 or equivalent skills.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Cross Country Skiing

    Common Course Number & Description
    A course for the nonskier or novice. Fundamental skills and safety will be stressed.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Downhill Skiing

    Common Course Number & Description
    Designed for everyone from nonskier to more advanced students, this course stresses safety and the learning of fundamental skills. Students may progress at their own rate.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Fly Fishing

    Common Course Number & Description
    This course is designed to teach students the relationship between the tactics, techniques, and equipment used in fly-fishing and the reasons fish do the things they do. Basic casting techniques, equipment, types and selection of flies, knots, and aquatic biology are covered both in the classroom and on a variety of local streams and lakes.
    PreRequisite: Prerequisite: Current South Dakota fishing license required.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Folk Dance

    Common Course Number & Description
    A study of dance around the world is the focus of this course. Students will be exposed to a variety of ethnic dances.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Golf

    Common Course Number & Description
    This is a course designed for students who have never played golf, or who have very limited experience. Emphasis will be placed on the development of fundamental skills and an acquaintance with some rules and terminology.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Lap Swimming

    Common Course Number & Description
    The aerobic benefit of swimming is the focus for this course, with emphasis on stroke mechanics.
    PreRequisite: Prerequisite: PE 120 or consent of Instructor.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Orienteering

    Common Course Number & Description
    The focus of this course is on the use of map and compass in the traversing of a variety of terrain. Fieldwork, including an introduction to competitive orienteering, is included.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Rock Climbing

    Common Course Number & Description
    This is a beginning course for those with little or no experience. Basic climbing techniques, safety selection and care of equipment, and basic geology for safe climbing are covered.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Soccer

    Common Course Number & Description
    This course is designed to present activities essential to the development of fundamental soccer skills. Rules and some competitive strategy are covered.
    1 semester hours
  
  • PE 100 - Social Dance

    Common Course Number & Description
    Contemporary and historical social dance will be studied in this course. Students will learn a variety of dance steps.
    1 semester hours
 

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