HPE 445 - The Good, Bad and Ugly of Intercollegiate Sports

Description:
This course will provide students with an in-depth exploration of current positive and negative topics surrounding intercollegiate athletics. The students will contemplate and assess critical issues through historical and contemporary case studies. HPE 445 and HPE 545 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

Credits: (3)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Research and define the current positive aspects of intercollegiate athletics.
Research and define the current negative aspects of intercollegiate athletics.
Demonstrate knowledge of general positive and negative aspects of intercollegiate athletics as looked at through local, state, and national purview.
Identify specific cases of positive and negative issues with intercollegiate athletics at the local level.
Identify specific policy in intercollegiate athletics at the state and national levels that will maintain positive trends.
Consider local, state, and nation trends with intercollegiate athletics and forecast how to head-off, or plan for, future negative impacts they will have on intercollegiate athletics.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
10/15/2015

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