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| 1. Description - |
| Introduction to swimming and safety skills. Includes physical and mental adjustment to water, buoyancy and body position, survival skills, and basic swim strokes.
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| Prerequisite: None
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| Co-requisite: None
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| Advisory: This course is included in the Aquatic Family of activity courses.
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| 2. Course Objectives - |
| The student will be able to:
- Use proper stroke and breathing mechanics for the front crawl, back crawl and elementary backstroke.
- Demonstrate proper technique for beginning swimming strokes.
- Explain personal safety skills usable during a water emergency.
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| 3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment - |
| Access of Swimming Pool
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| 4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) - |
| - Stroke Mechanics
- Front crawl
- Back crawl
- Backstroke
- Breathing Mechanics
- Front crawl
- Back crawl
- Backstroke
- General Safety Skills
- Learn safe diving rules
- Basic water safety techniques
- Become familiar with pool rescue equipment
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| 5. Repeatability - Moved to header area. |
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| 6. Methods of Evaluation - |
| - Skill demonstrations of strokes
- Journal Entries
- Writing assignments based on prepared reading materials
- Quizzes 1-4
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| 7. Representative Text(s) - |
| Laughlin, Terry. Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Physical Education
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| 9. Method of Instruction - |
| - Physical activity
- Video analysis
- Lecture
- Demonstration
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| 10. Lab Content - |
| - Stroke Mechanics
- Breathing Mechanics
- General Safety Skills
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| 11. Honors Description - No longer used. Integrated into main description section. |
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| 12. Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing and Outside of Class Assignments - |
| - Attendance & observation at high school and/or college level swim practice and/or swim meet
- Journal Entries
- Reading instructor prepared materials and completing assigned writing assignments
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| 13. Need/Justification - |
| This course is a restricted support course for the Certificate of Achievement, Transfer Studies: CSU GE and satisfies the Foothill GE Requirements for Area VII, Lifelong Learning.
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