11/21/2024 6:33:11 AM	KFIT 2.2 Course Outline as of Summer 2022	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  KFIT 2.2	Title:  STEP AEROBICS - INTER.
Full Title:  Intermediate Step Aerobics
Last Reviewed:4/27/2020

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	1.50	Lecture Scheduled	0		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	0
Minimum	1.50	Lab Scheduled	3.00		3 min.	Lab Scheduled	52.50
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  26.25

Total Student Learning Hours: 78.75

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  PHYED 28.2

Catalog Description:

The focus of this course is intermediate level step training, an aerobic activity incorporating a platform and sometimes with risers, designed to increase cardiovascular/respiratory fitness and improve muscular strength and endurance.  Intermediate step patterns and movement combinations choreographed to music will be presented. Activities may include other forms of aerobic exercise, muscular endurance, core work, and flexibility training.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Course Completion of KFIT 2.1

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

The focus of this course is intermediate level step training, an aerobic activity incorporating a platform and sometimes with risers, designed to increase cardiovascular/respiratory fitness and improve muscular strength and endurance.  Intermediate step patterns and movement combinations choreographed to music will be presented. Activities may include other forms of aerobic exercise, muscular endurance, core work, and flexibility training.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Course Completion of KFIT 2.1
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:		Inactive:
Area:
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1997	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1997	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Both Certificate and Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Demonstrate proper intermediate step patterns and techniques in response to cueing while sustaining an optimal exercise heart rate for cardiovascular conditioning.

2. Demonstrate proper stretching, endurance, and strengthening exercises and identify the muscle or muscle group used for each exercise.

 

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Define and explain basic principles of physical fitness.

2. Assess perceived levels of exertion during aerobic activities.

3. Calculate and monitor exercise heart rate.

4. Perform safe and continuous intermediate level step patterns choreographed to music for

    20-45 minutes.

5. Demonstrate knowledge of basic and intermediate step patterns by responding to cueing by

    the instructor.

6. Perform safe and effective strengthening and stretching exercises.

7. Identify working muscles by name and identify exercises that use that muscle or muscle

    group.

8. Discuss basic nutritional concepts relevant to aerobic exercise.

Topics and Scope

I. Physical Activity

    A. Warm-up

    B. Aerobic exercise (continuous exercise for 20-30  minutes performed at intermediate level

        (exercise heart rate)

    C. Intermediate level muscular endurance exercises

         1. Floor exercise

         2. Resistance training could include the following

              a. bands and exercise tubing

              b. free weights

              c. stability balls

              d. body weight

              e. core training

    D. Cool down segment

         1. Aerobic cool down

         2. Static stretching

         3. Relaxation exercises

II. Principles of Physical Fitness

    A. Cardiovascular endurance

    B. Muscular Strength and Endurance

    C. Flexibility

    D. Body Composition

III. Methods of Measuring Aerobic Exercise Intensity

    A. Heart rate calculation

    B. Perceived level of exertion

    C. The "talk test"

IV.  Physiological and Psychological Benefits of Aerobic Exercise

V.   Review of Major Muscle Groups and Identify Exercises for Each Muscle or Muscle Group

VI.  Basic Nutritional Concepts as they Relate to Aerobic Exercise

VII. Intermediate Level Step Patterns

    A. Step combinations: Basic through intermediate level (i.e. more complex and strenuous)

    B. Basic through intermediate step terminology and understanding instructor cues

Assignments:

Students are expected to spend an additional one and one-half hours per week outside of class completing one or more of the following assignments:

1. Calculate target and exercise heart rate

2. "Pre" and "Post" Fitness assessments

3. Perform aerobic exercise 1 to 2 hours per week in addition to regularly scheduled class

    meetings

4. Practice basic through intermediate step patterns, endurance,  strengthening and flexibility exercises

5. Writing: 1-3 report(s), step choreography notation, goals, and/or journal

6. Choreograph intermediate level step patterns

7. Taking 1 to 3 objective quiz(zes), midterm, and/or a final

8. Design a personal exercise program

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 5 - 10%
Report(s), journals, personal exercise program, goals, choreography pattern
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 5%
Target and Exercise Heart Rate
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 10 - 20%
Class performances, performance exams, fitness assessments, choreography performance
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 20 - 40%
Objective quiz(zes), midterm, and/or a final
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 40 - 60%
Participation

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Instructor prepared materials

Fitness: Steps to Success. Naternicola, Nancy. Human Kinetics. 2015 (classic)

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