4/18/2024 12:45:25 AM	KFIT 2.1 Course Outline as of Summer 2022	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  KFIT 2.1	Title:  STEP AEROBICS - BEG.
Full Title:  Beginning 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		6 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 28.1

Catalog Description:

The focus of this course is beginning level step training, an aerobic activity incorporating a platform, sometimes accompanied by risers, designed to increase cardiovascular/respiratory fitness and improve muscular strength and endurance.  Basic 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 traiining.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

The focus of this course is beginning level step training, an aerobic activity incorporating a platform, sometimes accompanied by risers, designed to increase cardiovascular/respiratory fitness and improve muscular strength and endurance.  Basic 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 traiining.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
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 step techniques in response to cueing while sustaining an optimal

     exercise heart rate for cardiovascular conditioning.

2.  Identify basic musculoskeletal anatomy and demonstrate proper resistance, core training

     and stretching exercises for each muscle or muscle group.

Objectives:

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

1. Define and explain basic principles of aerobic exercise.

2. Assess perceived level of exertion during aerobic exercise.

3. Calculate and monitor exercise heart rate.

4. Perform safe, continuous basic step patterns for 20 to 30 minutes.

5. Demonstrate knowledge of basic step patterns.

6. Show an ability to respond to step aerobic cues.

7. Perform safe and effective muscular strength and endurance exercises.

8. Recognize and demonstrate appropriate stretching and flexiblity exercises.

9. Identify working muscles by name.

Topics and Scope

I. Physical Activity

    A. Warm-up

    B. Aerobic exercise (continuous exercise for 20-30 minutes (performed at exercise heart rate)

    C. Muscle endurance and strengthening exercises

    D. Cool-down

    E. Flexibility exercises

II. Principles of Aerobic Exercise

    A. Definition of aerobic exercise

    B. Components of aerobic exercise

    C. Methods of measuring aerobic exercise intensity

    D. Physiological and psychological benefits of aerobic exercise

    E. Basic nutritional concepts as they relate to aerobic exercise

III. Step Patterns

    A. Movement combinations

    B. Step terminology and understanding cueing

    C. Safety

IV. Major Muscle Groups

V.  Fitness Assessment

    A. Pre

    B. Post

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. Calculating of exercise heart rate and body composition

2. "Pre" and "Post" fitness assessment

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

4. Practicing step patterns,enndurance, strengthening and stretching exercises

5. Choreographing basic step patterns

6. Writing: Reports, step choreography notation, goal assignments or journals

7. One to two objective quiz(zes), midterm and/or a final

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%
Reports, choreography notation, journals, goals
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 5%
Target heart rate calculation
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, step choreography
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 20 - 40%
Obejctive 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%
Attendance and participation

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Instructor Prepared Materials

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

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