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Liberal Study
Lower Level
Credits: 4
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Jan.
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Explore the specific theories, concepts and interventions related to today's sport experience. Explore how motivation is used as a tool, and examine how athletes manage and incorporate anxiety, arousal and mood into a performance instrument. Discover cooperation and competition on the sports field, how group dynamics make a team triumphant, and how the use of interventions such as imagery, hypnosis and other psychological trainings help combat a variety of sport behaviors. This course will discuss drug abuse, eating disorders and athlete injury that lead to ineffectual personal leadership or deficient character growth.
Important Note: January 2009 is the last term this course will be offered.
