Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 319]

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1919]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Your Committee presents for approval a four-years' curriculum in coaching and physical education, substantially as prepared by Director G. A. Huff, the purpose of which is to enable male students to fill positions as athletic directors, coaches, and gymnasium instructors, or any combination of these positions, by teaching them the technic of the games common to schools and colleges, and coaching methods and gymnastics, together with the ideal of sportmanship. Humanistic and scientific subjects are included with a view to a broad education, these making approximately half the curriculum, the other half being made up of vocational or professional courses. As the primary object of this curriculum is the preparation for teaching, we recommend that there be constituted a department of athletic coaching and physical education in the College of Education, in which the courses of this curriculum shall be offered. I t will differ from other curriculums in the college in the fact that it extends over four years instead of two, and that admission to it is conditioned upon entrance to the University and not upon two years undergraduate credit. The entrance requirements proposed are as follows: from List A, 6 units; from List B, 6 units; and from List B or C, 3 units; each applicant must pass also a medical examination and a general physical efficiency test. We propose that a total of 136 hours shall be required for graduation, and that the degree given be that of bachelor of science in physical education, the general requirements of which shall be a major in education, 20 hours; subjects of specialization (physical education), 44 hours; other prescribed subjects, 30 hours; group electives, 6 hours; electives to be chosen from lists approved by the faculty of the College of Education, 36 hours. The following particulars concerning the content and organization of the curriculum as now planned are given for the information of the Senate. It is of course especially distinguished by the 44 hours in physical education. These are equally divided between courses in theory and practise, 22 hours of each, mutually related as theoretical and laboratory courses are in the physical and biological sciences. The subjects to be taught in the 24 courses of this division are field and track athletics, boxing, wrestling, football, baseball, basketball, swimming, gymnastics (with and without apparatus), games, playground instruction, anthropometry, the physiology of exercise and kinesiology, orthopedics, training, and first aid. The 20 hours in education are made up of educational psychology, 3 hours, technic of teaching, 3 hours, organization and administration of physical education, 3 hours, coaching, 8 hours, and 3 hours of electives. The other prescribed subjects are physiology, anatomy, hygiene, psychology 2 and 9, public speaking, rhetoric 1 and 2, and military — a total of 30 hours. The group electives (6 hours) it is proposed to limit to history and the social sciences; having the remaining courses as free electives subject only to approval by the college faculty. The general character of the work proposed may be further illustrated by the following more detailed descriptions of a few of the courses. Anatomy, 3 hours.—Essentials of anatomy as related to physical education, osteology, articulations, muscles and their actions, respiration. General description of muscle, tendon, aponeuroses, fascia. Principal arteries and veins of the trunk and extremities; general anatomy of lymphatics; general anatomy of the nervous system;