Open Acadia - Undergraduate
Kinesiology 4233 - Stress Management
This course will provide students with the scientific foundations of stress and its effects, and will provide opportunities to reflect on personal stressors through self-study. Strategies to help manage stress will be reviewed.
Open Acadia - Undergraduate
Kinesiology 4763 - Intro to the Canadian Health Care System
This course introduces students to an overview of the Canadian Health Care System, including history, financing, federalism, and organization of health care in Canada, system issues and reform, regionalization and governance, acute, emergency, and tertiary care, and more. Discover the history and evolution of the health care system in Canada, as well as the current and future issues being faced.
Open Acadia - Undergraduate
Kinesiology 4773 - S.M.I.L.E. Programming
The Acadia S.M.I.L.E. (Sensory Motor Instructional Leadership Experience) Program is an innovative, academic-based, yet volunteer–driven program that provides persons with varying disabilities a unique physical activity experience in order to improve their total development as individuals. This course provides opportunities for students, from all academic disciplines to gain knowledge in the area of S.M.I.L.E. programming. The theoretical and applied aspects of adapted physical activity that directly relate to the S.M.I.L.E. program will be delivered. The topics include assessment of physical literacy, motor development, physical activity program, positive behaviour approach, instructional and activity modifications and leadership.
Open Acadia - Undergraduate
Kinesiology 4893 - Disability Sport
The course provides various aspects of the theory of social constructionism as it relates to disability and sport. It provides an insight into the historical development of disability sport both nationally and internationally, and will identify sport governing bodies responsible for Paralympic, Special Olympics, and other sport movements. It explores in-service delivery of sport models in school and community.