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All three- and four-year students are required to complete PE 100 by the end of the lower (10th grade) year.

The course is designed to foster individual development along with group success. Within this framework, the students are encouraged to realize and respect individual definitions of success.

Pass/fail. Limit of 15 students per section. Five class periods per week. The course integrates health and fitness concepts with self-testing and challenge activities. Classes use the running track, fitness center, ropes course and other areas of the athletic complex. Students learn the drown-proofing survival technique. One period per week is lecture-discussion, requiring some outside reading or other preparation. If the course is failed, the student will repeat it, in full or in part, during a subsequent term. Lowers will be pre-assigned.

Drownproofing

The drownproofing section helps to enhance the comfort level of a person in water. In the pool students learn how to perform the sub-surface float, the travel stroke and how to properly use a personal flotation devices.

Fitness Center

Students in Physical Education learn how to properly use all of the equipment in the Rosenau Fitness Center. Over the course of the term, all students gain experience and knowledge using the cardiovascular machines, the weight machines and the free weights.

Classroom Project

One period per week is lecture-discussion, requiring some outside reading or other preparation.