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Streams - physical and Health Education

Interdisciplinary Studies | Kinesiology and Health Science | Physical and Health Education

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The Physical and Health Education stream (PEDH) prepares students for leadership and instructional careers in a variety of physical activity and sport settings in both public and private agencies. Students in the PEDH program who wish to enter the faculty of education to pursue school-based physical education teaching careers, following completion of the BHK, will have fulfilled Faculty of Education admission requirements through the course requirements of the PEDH stream. The Physical and Health Education stream is an accredited program certified by the Canadian Colleges and Universities Physical Education and Kinesiologists Association (CCUPEKA).

Registration Information

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PROGRAM PLANNING NOTES

  1. Students planning to enter the Teacher Education Program in the Faculty of Education need to review the detailed admission requirements at www.educ.ubc.ca/teacher_ed/bachelor.html.
  2. Students planning to apply for the secondary option must prepare a second teaching field.
  3. Students in the Physical and Health Education stream must complete a minimum of 18 credits of non-HKIN electives, of which at least 12 credits must be at the 300/400 level.
  4. All students must complete 30 credits of HKIN at the 300/400 level.
  5. All students must complete 48 credits at the 300/400-level.
  6. Students are able to complete arts, commerce, nutritional sciences or science minors.

Suggested Course Sequence


Year 1
Year 2
  • ENGL 112 - Strategies for University Writing
  • HKIN 103 - Active Health
  • *HKIN 115 - Performance Analysis of Selected Individual Sports and Activities
  • HKIN 115 - Performance Analysis of Selected Individual Sports and Activities
  • HKIN 151 - Biomechanics I
  • HKIN 161 - Leisure and Sport in Society
  • HKIN 190 - Anatomy & Physiology I
  • HKIN 191 - Anatomy & Physiology II
  • Electives (6 credits)
  • HKIN 215 - Performance Analysis of Selected Team Sports and Activities
  • *HKIN 215 - Performance Analysis of Selected Team Sports and Activities
  • HKIN 230 - Human Motor Behaviour I
  • HKIN 231 - Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • HKIN 261 - Health Policy and Society
  • HKIN 275 - Exercise Physiology I
  • HKIN 284 - Physical Growth and Motor Development
  • Electives (9 credits)
Year 3
Year 4
  • HKIN 362 - Adapted Physical Education
  • HKIN 366 - Movement Experiences for Young Children
  • HKIN 369 - Instructional Analysis and Design in Sport and Physical Activity Programs
  • HKIN 371 - Introduction to Statistics in Human Kinetics
  • Electives (18 credits)
  • HKIN 303 - High Performance Conditioning in Physical Activity and Sport
    or HKIN 464 - Health Promotion and Physical Activity
    or HKIN 469 - Exercise Prescription
  • HKIN 400 - Planning Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Programs
  • HKIN 415 - Conceptual Approaches to Games Education
  • Electives (21 credits)

*The HKIN 115 and 215 courses can be taken in any sequence i.e. students do not need to take 115's before they take 215's and they could take 215's in year one or 115's in year 2.

Career Opportunities

  • Youth Agencies
  • Community Recreation Centers, Seniors Centres
  • Local, Provincial, National Sport Governing Bodies
  • Sport Clubs
  • Teacher Careers in Schools
  • Graduate Studies in Instruction and Coaching & Health Related Courses
  • Health Promotion

 

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Last reviewed 16-Sep-2008

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