Sep 04, 2025

Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2014-2015

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Physical Education, Coaching Concentration, BS

Department: Movement Arts, Health Promotion and Leisure Studies

This concentration prepares the physical education major to apply concepts and principles related to all aspects of coaching, including the player, team, coach and administration of athletic programs for youth and adults. The field experience is an important aspect of this concentration.

Grade Requirement

Students must achieve a minimum grade of “C-” in all physical education core and activity courses. Additionally, students must achieve a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA to participate in an internship/field experience.

Course Requirements

Core courses (23 credits)

Activity courses (9 credits)

Activity electives

Complete three additional activity credits, according to the following distribution:

one course from Area A - Individual/Dual Sports
one course from Area B - Team Sports
one course from either Area A or B

Click here to view the full chart of activity requirements by area.

Concentration courses (18 credits)

* ATTR 112 - Sports First Aid
PHED 414 - Coaching
* PHED 416 - Planning and Implementing Coaching Leadership Strategies
PHED 498 - Field Experience in Physical Education (3 credits)
* RECR 230 - Introduction to Recreation
* RECR 461 - Organization and Administration in Recreation
* These courses must be taken prior to the field experience, PHED 498 - Field Experience in Physical Education .

Health course (3 credits)

HEAL 102 - Health and Wellness

Elective course (3 credits)

Complete one additional 300-400 level course in athletic training (ATTR), health (HEAL), physical education (PHED) or recreation (RECR); or one of the following:

Total minimum credits: 56

Core Curriculum Requirements

A minimum of 120 earned credit hours is required for graduation. These earned hours include the Core Curriculum Requirements as specified in the Undergraduate Academic Programs section of this catalog and at the Core Curriculum website, www.bridgew.edu/corecurriculum. For additional graduation requirements, see the Undergraduate Academic Policies section of this catalog.