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P a S e fourteen/Carolina Journal/November 28, 197 More courses and faculty for PTE By Kassi Miller There are two types of physical education classes in the health and physical education department of UNCC. The courses which are taught are designed to meet two major objec tives explained Harvey Murphy, chairperson of the department. “One grouping of courses call ed activity courses allow students to learn new sports skills or sharpen some skills which they already have. Another group of courses is career oriented." Most of the activity cards meet for three hours a week and give the student one hour of credit. “The activity classes are under the classification of laboratory classes because there is little outside work involved,” Murphy said. Excep tions are made when it is necessary to include enough work outside of class to warrant the ad ding of credit hours. Ex amples of such classes are advanced lifesaving, which is a two credit hour course and scuba which is a three credit hour course. Although UNCC does not offer a major in physical education, cer tification courses are available as the second type of classes. Cer tification courses operate in cooperation with the HDL depart ment. Every student who plans to teach must have courses in health and/or physical educa tion. Movement education is a helping speciality. Movement education is an alternative set of strategies for teaching physical education. Cur rently, it is geared primarily toward preschool and elemen tary school teachers. UNCC students in the program learn how to conduct a movement education program, and how to use its strategies and to develop new fphoto by Robin Colby) Handball is one of the new courses taught by new faculty member Linda Rough. strategies for teaching movement in their own settings when they become teachers. According to Murphy, the spring semester will see the addition of a new helping specialty course called “Sports Helping Specialty." "The primary objective of the specialty is to prepare WBTV to air Sun Belt '’game of the week” By Jim Dedmon The Sun Belt Con ference will inaugurate another first in 1979 with a televised “game of the week." The eight week series will begin on Jan. 6, 1979 and will feature seven con secutive games plus the championship on Sun day, Feb. 25, 1979. The regional network has stations in seven major cities in five states. The 1979 series will include all of the conference regulars in cluding first year member University of Alabama at Birm ingham. The play-by-play will be announced by Al Wester, sports director of the Mutual Radio ^ MOTOR • BIKE LTD. VESPA Motor Scooters & Mopeds Authorized Sales, Service, Parts, & Accessories Hickory Grove Plaza 5738 Susan Drive Charlotte, N.C. 28215 coaches,” Murphy said. "It is not a physical education major. In its beginning, it will focus strictly on coaching. The logic is a student who goes into teaching has a higher probability of getting a job in the classroom and coaching as a secondary career than he or she has to get Network. Wester is also the voice of the 350 sta tion worldwide Notre Dame football network. Wester is experienced in the field of televisions sports broadcasting, having done play-by- play for Mutual’s Mon day Night Football, Kentucky Derby races, Indy 500’s, and almost every college football bowl game in the coun try. Wester, who lives in New Orleans, has kept close tabs on the Sun Belt Conference and at tended the first Sun Belt Conference tournament in Charlotte in 1977, as a radio announcer. A color commentator will be an nounced later. Although all of the DickJermyri 704/538 5611 a job as a physical education teacher and coach.” A third group of career oriented courses fall under the heading of support courses. “We have four courses in perceptual motor learn ing and they primarily meet the needs of people who are studying to deal with learning disabilities and/or who work in agencies which deal with exceptional children. One of the perceptual motor courses is a laboratory course in which the students have the opportunity to work in a clinical situation with children who have perceptual motor pro blems. The clinical pro gram is conducted on the UNCC campus,” Murphy said. Even with progress being made in some teams will be featured at least once, Jacksonville and UNCC will be featured three times on television. Each team in the conference will have an opportunity to play one more game on the network if they make it to the championship game of the year’s tour nament. In Charlotte the net work affiliate is WBTV, a division of Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting and will handle the technical aspects and the produc tion of the games. They will be assisted by Turner Communications of Atlanta. All games will be aired on Saturdays except the MARKETING, INC “LET US PERSONALIZE YOUR CLUB OR ORGANIZATION” Imprinted T-Shirts — $3.00 [™ Complete line of silkscreen printed book bags, caps, Niteshirts. Laundry Bags, Nylon Jackets PHONE: 596-1319 areas of the department, there is still quite a bit of concern over the ac tivity program which is of greater interest to a large variety of students. Presently, the problem is with faculty. “We simply do not have the faculty to add sec tions. Like every depart ment, we are intent on improving and one of the way departments im prove is to get new facul ty positions.” A common complaint of physical education students is the $10 addi tional fee each student must pay when taking a physical education course. Murphy states, however, the money is necessary for operating the classes. “We furnish tennis balls to the tennis classes, badminton rackets and birds to the championship game which will be on Sunday, Feb. 25. Local times will be announced in each ci ty by that station af filiated with the net work. The television net work will allow almost 12 million people to have the opportunity to view Sun Belt Conference basketball. Below is a list of the teams to play and the dates of the air ings. Think on these things... A thought (or the week from URM-UNCC A man’s mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back —Oliver Wendell Holmes to its original dimension. badminton classes, handball gloves to the handball classes, fencing equipment to the fenc ing classes, supplies and equipment for first aid classes, etc. We also fur nish towels, laundry ser vice and uniforms for many students. “Some students say they do not want the uniforms,” Murphy continued. “Some do not wear them to class. The uniforms are a bonus in most classes. If a students has to buy tennis balls, handball gloves, golf clubs, etc., it is evident the $10 will not go very far. We are able to take the money and, through judicious buying, keep our classes supplied with appropriate equip ment and supplies at a modest cost to the. students,” he said. Home Schedule Jan. 6, UNCC at New) Orleans Jan. 13, Jacksonville at| Georgia State Jan. 20, New Orleans at Jacksonville Jan. 27, South Florida att UNCC Feb. 3, South Florida at UA-Birmingham Feb. 10, South Alabamaj at Jacksonville Feb. 17, South Alabama at UNCC Feb. 25, Conference Championship
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