Course Syllabus

LHPE 171—Discovering Health Fitness I

1 Credit Hour

I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed for the adult learner and seeks to develop an understanding of, and personal
appreciation for, the relationship of physical activity and fitness to health. Emphasizes the concept of
health fitness through the conditioning of the cardiorespiratory system and the development of a healthy
lifestyle. Includes consumer health information and a required weekly physical activity lab.

Prerequisites: Medical Assessment

II. ACADEMIC MISSION

Oral Roberts University’s academic mission is to transform students by the power of the Holy Spirit
into whole, competent servant-leaders through liberal arts and professional education that is fully
Christian. Within a Spirit-filled healing community, administration, faculty, and staff love and serve
students by helping them grow in knowledge, skills, wisdom, character, and spirit. Student
transformation is measured through the evaluation of student expression of University learning
outcomes as demonstrated through the following outcomes.

1 Spiritual Integrity
2 Personal Resilience
3 Intellectual Pursuit
4 Global Engagement
5 Bold Vision

The last page of this syllabus, “COURSE INVENTORY for ORU’s Course Objectives,” indicates how this
course supports ORU’s academic mission and ORU’s whole-person approach to learning outcomes.

III. PROGRAM OUTCOMES

This course is offered by the School of Liberal Arts under ORU’s College of Arts and Cultural Studies. It
supports the program outcomes of ORU’s General Education program, a common core curriculum
required for every ORU undergraduate major. The outcomes of General Education reflect ORU’s
founding commitment to comprehensive whole-person liberal arts education. General Education has four
program outcomes, listed below. This course supports the item marked in bold text below and with an
asterisk (*).

1. Core Literacy: Have a breadth of knowledge essential to a classical Spirit-empowered liberal arts
education.*

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 2. Intercultural Knowledge and Engagement: Have an understanding of, and demonstrate sensitivity
towards, cultural differences from an historical and global Christian worldview with engagement
through intercultural experiences and by using effective oral and written communication techniques.

3. Lifelong Wellness: Have the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to lead a life-long
physically active and healthy lifestyle – spirit, mind, and body.*

4. Global Issues, Critical Thinking, and Creativity: Have the ability to lead, collaborate, and serve as
part of a team in order to ethically, critically, and creatively solve big problems by applying bold
innovative solutions from a diverse set of perspectives.

IV. COURSE GOALS

The purpose of this course is to enable the student to do the following:

A. Gain a basic understanding of the role of physical activity in life today.

B. Develop a philosophy related to physical well being on the basis of factual information through
exposure to basic information from the areas of physical education and health.

V. COURSE OBJECTIVES
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
A. Identify and describe the relationship between the concepts of physical activity, physical fitness,
health fitness, and health.
1. Describe the concept of hypokinetic diseases.
2. Describe the cultural factors that have contributed to hypokinetic diseases.
3. Describe the whole person concept.
4. Define and describe the components of health fitness.
B. Measure and determine his or her own level of health fitness and physical activity level.
1. Take a variety of health fitness tests, which measure each component of physical fitness.
2. Identify various tests of fitness and describe what component of fitness each measures.
3. Relate the test results to one's personal level of fitness.
4. List the risk factors related to heart disease and the preventive measures to lower the risk
factors.
5. Analyze his/her daily physical activity patterns.
C. Prescribe a personalized fitness program for cardiorespiratory fitness.
1. Define, describe, and apply the concept of the overload principle (intensity, duration,
and frequency) to the development of cardiorespiratory fitness.
2. Demonstrate various methods and exercises to develop the components of health fitness.
3. Describe the principles of specificity, individuality, and reversibility.
4. Select a personal goal to guide participation in fitness program and explain why that ideal
was chosen.
D. Improve or maintain a good level of fitness as a result of participating in the personalized fitness
program.
1. Pursue the goal established in the exercise prescription.
2. Keep a log of program and progress.
3. Meet the minimum standards for health fitness by completing an average of 10,000 steps per
day.
4. Meet the minimum standards for the 1-Mile Walking Field Test.

VI. TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER LEARNING RESOURCES

Before you purchase your required textbook(s), click on the ORU Bookstore link to verify whether digital
texts are provided as part of your Follett ACCESS course fee. http://www.bkstr.com/oralrobertsstore/home

Required Materials

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 Textbook(s):
Huber, F. (2017). Essentials of Physical Activity. (6th ed., revised). Peosta, IA: Eddie Bowers. [Digital
ISBN: 9781975047283]

Other required materials:

None

Optional Materials:
Fitbit Charge HR or other wearable fitness tracking (i.e., steps counting) device.

VII. POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

A. University Policies and Procedures
1. Plagiarism:
a. The ORU Catalog explicitly addresses the issue of plagiarism. Make sure you know
ORU’s policy on plagiarism and what is considered plagiarism.
b. Using text generated by an artificial intelligence program as your own (e.g., entering a
prompt into an A.I. tool such as ChatGPT and copy/pasting the exact output into your
paper) is also considered plagiarism.
2. Privacy: By law, students are entitled to privacy regarding their records. The Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), as amended and available in the ORU
University Catalog, sets forth requirements designed to protect the privacy of student
education records. The law governs access to records maintained by educational institutions
and the release of information from those records.
3. Whole Person Assessment Requirements:
a. Specify which, if any, Whole Person Assessment requirements there are for this course:
Lifestyle Assessment.

b. Artifacts not submitted electronically or incorrectly submitted receive a zero for that
assignment.

B. School and/or Department Policies and Procedures

1. Participation: Participation in each online class through discussion forums, assignments,
and all other course activities count as your attendance in the course. Lack of participation
can reduce a student’s grade or deny credit for the course.
2. Class Assignments
a. Students need to have the appropriate textbooks, course materials, and other supplies as
designated by the professor.
b. Professors may refuse to accept an assignment if it has inappropriate content, does not
meet the assignment’s criteria (e.g., not typed, incorrectly documented), is incomplete, is
suspected of plagiarism, or is turned in too late.
3. Late Work
a. The student is responsible for obtaining class assignments and materials, and all work is
expected to be completed as scheduled. The professor may not accept late work, or it
may result in a lower grade. Computer or Internet malfunctions do not constitute an
excuse for late work; students should have their work prepared in time to ensure that they
can get it completed, edited, and proofread prior to the instructor’s due date. These
responsibilities assist the student in professional development.
b. Generally, assignments missed from a serious sickness or family crises can be made up
and the instructor should be notified as soon as possible to reach an agreement on due
dates and possible penalties. Each instructor has his or her own late-work policy.
Instructors use their own judgment in accepting late work.
4. Incompletes
On rare occasions, the grade of “I” may be given for work that is incomplete at the time
grades are given. It is given only after the instructor and the department chair or college
dean approve a petition submitted by the student that his or her work is incomplete for good

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 cause. Good cause typically consists of a catastrophic event in which the student is
prevented from completing the course requirements. It is the responsibility of the student to
initiate the petition through http://petitions.oru.edu, make up any incomplete work, and ask
the instructor to submit a grade change to the registrar. If the work is not completed by the
end of the subsequent session, the incomplete will automatically convert to an “F.” For
graduating seniors, the degree will be awarded in the term that the student completes his or
her course work, not the final term of enrollment.
5. Citations
Textbook(s) and materials for the course are listed using standard citation style (APA, MLA,
Chicago, Turabian, etc.). Since other styles may be used in disciplines other than the one
used in this course or school, the ORU Citing and Documenting Sources pages offer a
collection of styles students may choose from. This course asks that students be consistent
in whatever style they use throughout the course.

C. Online Programs Policies and Procedures

1. Communicating with your Instructor: All email communication between students and
faculty will be through their ORU.edu emails.
2. Learning Community: Online learning community is established through active participation
in the threaded weekly discussions. The mutual exchange of ideas, information, and
experiences is an essential part of the learning process, and students are encouraged to use
the discussion forum as virtual classroom platform.
3. ADA and Students with Disabilities:
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"Accessibility Resources for Students with Disabilities."
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4. Useful Links for Online Students:
 Student Learning Glossary
 Library: http://library.oru.edu.
 D2L Helpdesk: [email protected]
 I.T. Student Helpdesk: [email protected]
 Netiquette and Online Discussions: https://goo.gl/f744AY
 Contact the University: please fill out this online form. Please first contact your instructor
for assistance with any matter specific to the course.

D. Course Policies and Procedures

1. Evaluation Procedures: The final grade will be based on forum discussions, projects, and a
final exam. The weight of each item is included in the Course Calendar. Extra credit items are
not offered in this course.

Points Category
125 Chapter Quizzes
70 Labs
195

2. Grading Scale:
A=195-176 B=175-156 C=155-137 D=136-117 F=116 and below.
3. Other Policies and/or Procedures
Field Test Policy: Must be taken every semester in each enrolled activities class

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VIII. COURSE CALENDAR

Week Category
1 Chapter 1 and Lab 1
2 Chapter 2 and Lab 2
3 Chapter 6 and Lab 3
4 Chapter 3 and Lab 4
5 Chapter 4 and Lab 5
6 Lab 6
7 Lab 7

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IX. COURSE INVENTORY
LHPE 171—Discovering Health Fitness I

This inventory indicates the extent to which this Course’s Objectives contribute to the Outcomes of
its degree Program, and ultimately to one or more of ORU’s University Outcomes (in grey below):

 Significant Contribution – Addresses the outcome directly and includes targeted assessment.
 Moderate Contribution – Addresses the outcome directly or indirectly and includes some
assessment.
 Minimal Contribution – Addresses the outcome indirectly and includes little or no assessment.

OUTCOMES Significant Moderate Minimal

1. Spiritual Integrity

2. Personal Resilience
Program Outcome 3. LIFELONG WELLNESS: Have the theoretical and
practical knowledge and skills to lead a life-long physically active and X
healthy lifestyle – spirit, mind, and body
 Course Objective A: Identify and describe the relationship between the
X
concepts of physical activity, physical fitness, health fitness, and health.
 Course Objective B: Measure and determine personal level of health
X
fitness and physical activity level.
 Course Objective C: Prescribe a personalized fitness program
X
for cardiorespiratory fitness
 Course Objective D: Improve or maintain a good level of fitness as a result
X
of participating in the personalized fitness program.
3. Intellectual Pursuit
Program Outcome 1. CORE LITERACY: Have a breadth of knowledge
X
essential to a classical Spirit-empowered liberal arts education.
 Course Objective A: Identify and describe the relationship between the
X
concepts of physical activity, physical fitness, health fitness, and health.
 Course Objective B: Measure and determine personal level of health
X
fitness and physical activity level.
 Course Objective C: Prescribe a personalized fitness program
X
for cardiorespiratory fitness
 Course Objective D: Improve or maintain a good level of fitness as a result
X
of participating in the personalized fitness program.
4. Global Engagement

5. Bold Vision

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