Core Curriculum Statement
This course is included in the Weatherford College core academic transfer curriculum as approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. As such, students successfully completing this course will be required to demonstrate college-level proficiency in communication, critical thinking, empirical and quantitative reasoning, and teamwork.
- Identify and implement health-related fitness components.
- Identify and implement skill-related fitness components.
- Develop and implement personal diet and fitness goals for a lifestyle of optimal health and fitness.
- Achieve a higher level of physical fitness through participation.
- Understand and use heart rate monitoring techniques (empirical and quantitative).
- Recognize the importance of safety during physical exercise.
- Discuss the most important strategies for healthy lifestyle changes (teamwork).
- Develop healthy habits that can be continued throughout the lifespan.
- Discuss the elements of physical fitness (teamwork).
- Recognize the importance of exercise as it relates to health and wellness
- Analyze the relationships between nutrition, obesity, weight control and exercise (empirical and quantitative).
- Analyze the impact/effect of physical activity as it relates to the individual, the community, and society.
Student success is measured by assessment techniques aligned to course goals and learning outcomes. A variety of techniques may be used, including but not limited to objective exams/quizzes, classroom participation, physical assessments, demonstrations, written reports and group projects. Individual faculty members may also include selected computer programs and demonstrations of health facts with the aid of media and laboratory. Individual faculty members are responsible for designing evaluation instruments to measure student mastery of course goals and learning outcomes and for indicating the nature of such instrument in the instructor’s class requirements.
Semester grade will have letter grade assigned as follows
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
Below 60 F
ADA Statement:
Any student with a documented disability (e.g. learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) may contact the Office on the Weatherford College Weatherford Campus to request reasonable accommodations. Phone: 817-598-6350 Office Location: Office Number 118 in the Student Services Building, upper floor. Physical Address: Weatherford College 225 College Park Drive Weatherford, TX.