THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                                FACULTY SENATE 


                                                             
                                    Senate Document Number   0895S            
                                                              
                                    Date of Senate Approval  1/26/95          

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:


               APC Document #5:  Expansion in Health and Fitness


Fulfillment of the one-hour General Education Fitness Development
Option by Basketball (HF 121) and Water Aerobics (HF 122) 

Effective Date:  Spring semester 1995 for adoption; Fall 1995
(1995-96) catalog.

Proposal:  That Basketball (one hour) be assigned a course number
of HF 121 and Water Aerobics (one hour) be assigned a course
number of HF 122 and both courses be added to the Health and
Fitness course offerings in the UNCA 1995-96 catalog as Fitness
Development Options.

Add:  Health and Fitness (HF), page 124 under Fitness Development
Course Options (Grading is S/U)

HF 121 Basketball (1)
HF 122 Water Aerobics (1)

Impact Statement:       Basketball will not require any additional
faculty, staff, or resources.  Water Aerobics requires one and
one-half adjunct hours each semester.  No additional adjunct
hours will be required for Water Aerobics.  Current resources
will be re-allocated to meet this need.

Rationale:  Students have been requesting a basketball course for
several semesters.  Ray Ingram (head coach, women's basketball)
and Lynn Griffin (assistant head coach, women's basketball) want
to teach the course.  They will integrate both aerobic and
anaerobic fitness into each class session to the extent that
basketball will meet the criteria for a Fitness Development
Course Option and, therefore, should be approved to satisfy the
one-hour fitness requirement.

Debby Singleton (adjunct) is teaching Water Aerobics during the
Fall 1994 semester.  She is certified by the National Aquatic
Exercise Association as a water aerobics instructor.  The Water
Aerobics class was over-enrolled, with a waiting list.  Mid-term
course evaluations were highly favorable.  Water aerobics is an
excellent, low-impact fitness option for all students.  It offers
older or disabled students, who often have to do an independent
study, an opportunity to fulfill their fitness requirement in a
traditional class setting.  Water Aerobics should be approved to
satisfy the one-hour fitness requirement.



NOTE:       Make appropriate change on page 48.

            "Fitness Development (Activity):  

            One Course from HF 121-129          1 semester hour