Senate Document #24
                               1985-86




General Education Document #16

Proposal for the PHYSICAL SELF

I.  Catalog Description

   120	The Physical Self (1 credit)
	Psychological and physiological study of the human body in 
	relation to self-concept, self-esteem, fitness and health.  
	Measurement of individual attitudes, fitness levels, and 
	risks to health. [To be cross-listed as PE 120 ST]

Rationale

By offering nine lectures dealing with "health, fitness, emotion, 
and self-concept" as specified in The Requirement, and by offering 
four sessions in which to assess "individual health risk and fitness 
levels" as further specified in The Requirement, this course is 
structured to give its students what the Senate has directed.  The 
Health Promotion Program's and the Physical Education Department's 
intention is that 120 be the prerequisite for its accompanying 
one-credit Physical Education "activities course."  It is also the 
wish of these two academic units that students be required to take 
both one-hour offerings in their first 36 credit hours at UNCA.

II.  A Proposal for an Alternative in the Health Promotion and 
Physical Education Requirement:  To allow PSYC 110-Health Promotion- 
as an alternative to The Physical Self for the General Education 
requirement.

PSCY 110 is described in the UNCA Catalog 84/86, page 171:

	Theory, research, and skills relating to physical fitness, 
	stress management, interpersonal communication and health.

This three-credit course can serve as a reasonable alternative to 
the one-credit course (Interdisciplinary Special Topic 120).  Both 
courses deal extensively with "health, fitness, emotion, and 
self-concept", even though the courses differ substantially from 
each other.  The three-credit course goes well beyond those four 
descriptors, to include nutrition, stress management, 
interpersonal/family relationships, and substance abuse.  It also 
includes assessment sessions and a 30-minute "Wellness Visit" with 
physicians at the Family Health Center.

Our proposal is that students be allowed to select either of these 
courses to complete the one-credit General Education requirement for 
a "theoretical course" as their basic academic experience in Health 
Promotion/Physical Education.