SES News and Highlights
- New Master of Science Athletic Training Program
Applications are now being accepted to the new Master of Science in Athletic Training program at the University of Northern Colorado.
Athletic training was previously offered at UNC as a bachelor’s degree until key stakeholders in athletic-training education agreed to standardize the professional degree in athletic training at the master’s level.
- Bear in Mind Podcast Host-SES Doctoral Student
From the Greeley Tribune: "Doctoral student Dannon Cox, the longtime host of an award-winning, university-produced podcast, will step out from behind his microphone for the final time in the coming weeks, leaving a void in the 3-year-old production called "Bear in Mind."
- Student Impact on Colorado State Capitol
Colorado is one of only four states without mandated requirements for health and physical education in the United States.
Quality health and physical education programs seek to educate the whole child and provide them with the skills and dispositions to live healthy and active lifestyles. The Physical Education program (PEPAL) at UNC provides many opportunities for its students to participate in and contribute to advocacy efforts that will help move the profession forward!
This March, five undergraduate SES-PEPAL students joined Dr. Jaimie McMullen at the Colorado State Capitol to advocate for quality health and physical education. They joined several other health and physical education professionals for the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) Colorado Advocacy Day! While there, they met with elected officials, attended committee meetings, and sat in on floor deliberations in the House and Senate. These students represented UNC and the broader health and physical education community and were able to educate several law makers from both the House and Senate on the goals of health and physical education.
Left Photo: SES - PEPAL students including Meredith Kinney, Joseph Malanga, Sheliann Scheel, Wilson Young and Kayla Mollendor with Dr. McMullen (pink shirt/blue blazer) outside of Colorado State Capitol.Right Photo: SES - PEPAL students and Dr. McMullen inside Colorado State Capitol with CO General Assembly Representative, Mary Young.
- Olympic Mettle
On an early Tuesday morning, Gunter 1150 looks like pretty much any other college classroom. A few posters hang on the walls. Students in jeans, sweats and athletic gear fill the desks for a required Physical Education class.
After a student presentation, the professor tells his students to get up and stretch before his lecture on the Paralympics. Then two things happen: He wheels over to a table at the front of the classroom, and he pulls out a bronze medal.
Meet Scott Douglas, known to his students as Dr. D. He’s program coordinator of UNC’s sports coaching program and teaches in the School of Sport and Exercise Science.
- Sled Hockey in Class
SES 338 strives to challenge student’s perception of what is “normal” through disability-related simulation (wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, sled hockey, wheelchair rugby, hand-cycling, wheelchair softball, sitting volleyball, and a host of other adapted sports), peer discussion, guest lectures, observation, and self-reflection.
Purpose
The purpose of SES 338 is to provide various practitioners with strategies for serving diverse populations in a variety of movement settings (e.g., public school programs, extended day programs, and community youth sports and recreation programs). Two primary emphases are (1) including all learners in a single setting, and (2) helping learners to take more responsibility for their well-being and to be more sensitive and responsive to the well-being of others.
Course Content
Content in this course includes: understanding, recognizing, and accepting individual differences; including diverse learners in physical activity and leisure pursuits; understanding relevant legislation; designing appropriate learning environments (i.e., activity and equipment design, and instructional alternatives); and, combining service and learning.
Service Learning
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities (National Service Learning Clearinghouse, 2012).
Through community-based service learning, students are offered opportunities to develop a positive disposition toward community involvement and helping others. Examples of these opportunities include officiating and managing various events for the Weld County Special Olympics, volunteering as (ski) instructors at the National Sport Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, Colorado, participating in the Greeley Parklands Survey, and volunteering as counselors at Camp Abilities (Alaska and Oregon).
