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PE 114 - Intermediate Swimming


Credit Hours: 1

This course is designed to improve participant’s proficiency in basic aquatic skills, the six basic swimming strokes, development knowledge and skills about diving and water safety.  Included are skills and concepts needed to stay safe in and around water and to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency.  This course is taught at the levels of Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes/Learn-to-Swim Level 3.  All aquatic and safety skills are taught in a logical progression.  Games and various aquatic activities will be stressed. Candidates best suited for this course have the following skills: comfortable in chest-deep water, able to put face in water, able to perform 15 yards of front crawl, breaststroke and back crawl.  The American Red Cross method of instruction will be closely followed for certification.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • demonstrate swimming skills at the American Red Cross Adult Swim-Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes/Learn-to-Swim Level 3 and water play activities;
  • demonstrate safety skills needed to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency;
  • identify and appraise equipment necessary to participate in swimming; and
  • explain and interpret selected laws of science which apply to swimming.

 

 

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