Physical Education

This course provides a thorough understanding of how sports technology and innovations evolve within the industry and equips students for careers in this dynamic and constantly evolving field. The course builds creative and critical thinking skills by examining real-life cases in the sports technology landscape, and as students participate in discussions and hands-on projects. Topics include wearable devices, eSports, data analytics, and sports marketing.  

This is an independent research course with research arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific research topics vary each term and are described on a special project form for each student. A substantial paper is required. The number of units varies with the student’s project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student’s special study project form.

This course will focus on the teaching of two types of Chinese folk dance: Xinjiang dance and long-sleeve dance, including their historical and cultural background as well as the basic moves. Students will practice the basic dance techniques and will learn an excerpt from a performance of each of these two types of dances and rehearse for the performance at the farewell party.

To provide the students with the basic knowledge of Chinese folk dance and to offer them an opportunity to practice the basic moves and present a performance.

This course examines various issues facing sports in modern society, mainly from the perspective of sports sociology. What kind of social background are the sports we enjoy based on? Also, sports are generally considered to be "good," however, students learn that sports also have disadvantages. While analyzing various problems that sports in modern society is facing, students are expected to acquire the basic ideas of sports sociology.

1. Introduction of the course

i. The Chinese character Tai Chi is based on Taiji, according to the rise, fall, opening and closing of human body hardware, the fluctuation of software breath and the retraction of consciousness, with Yin and Yang transformation as the general principles. To achieve the dynamic balance of body, heart, spirit and wisdom, and achieve the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, consciousness six normalization harmonious state. Chinese character Tai Chi combines culture, self-cultivation, music and innovation. It is a traditional sport with cultural, philosophical and artistic characteristics. This course consists of teaching by word and example. Teaching by words: read classics 25 minutes before each class. Textbooks: classics, such as The Great Learning, Tao Te Ching, Diamond Sutra, and Heart Sutra. After reading, students discuss 5 minutes for each chapter. Students should combine their study and life in the process of discussion. Teachers ask questions for 5 minutes, and the whole students discuss them together. Teaching by examples: The teacher teaches the structure of the body, and the teacher kneads skeleton for each student. Teaching the basic movements of Chinese character Tai Chi (hand, eye, body, method, step, basic stroke, simple Chinese character, basic strokes of Chinese characters and coordination of hand, eye, body, method and step). Through the study of Chinese character Tai Chi and the course of health care, the students can understand the relationship between the words and examples, understand the traditional sports, and combine the students' morality, intelligence, body and beauty, so as to achieve the purpose of cultivation. Through the study of Chinese character Tai Chi and the course of health care, the students can set up a correct outlook on life and values and grasp the state of their own life, enable students to realize that "without desire to observe things to small to micro, with desire to observe their laws and purposes" and its application in life. Through the study of Chinese character Tai Chi and the course of health care, it can improve the flexibility, coordination and suppleness of the students' body, and achieve the purpose of improving health, stimulating vitality and pleasing the body and mind. Through the study of Chinese character Tai Chi and the course of health care, students can write different Chinese characters and practice different routines every day according to their own emotional changes. So that everyone can combine their own physiological conditions and characteristics to find their own form of movement. 

ii. Safety Precautions 

a) Wear loose clothing (e.g., traditional health clothes or sportswear) 

b) Students are required to pay attention to their physical safety, such as chest tightness, panic, headache and other physiological conditions. The teacher arranges it according to the situation 

2. Curriculum Task 

i. Cultivate students' sense of lifelong physical education, grasp the concept of traditional national sports and culture system of Chinese characters 

ii. Practice and grasp accurately and effectively. 

iii. Improve self-cultivation and improve personal personality

This course is an introduction to the principles of physical exercise, with a focus on understanding how the body moves and responds to exercise, how performance can be measured, and how fitness can be developed and maintained to optimize health. Particular emphasis will be placed on the debunking of common myths about exercise, and offering evidence-based advice on the benefits of appropriate physical activity.

The course aims to introduce Chinese traditional culture to students through Chinese Kungfu training experience, improve their blood circulation and physical fitness, have basic self-defense method, and have experience of Jing ( Spirit ), Qi ( Air ), Shen ( Concentration of Mind ) in Chinese Kungfu.

Chinese Kungfu, (also known as Wushu or martial arts) is one of the most well-known physical arts of traditional Chinese culture which is also probably one of the earliest and longest-lasting sports using both brawn and brain. Based upon classical Chinese philosophy, Kungfu has developed as a unique combination of exercise, practical self-defense, self-discipline and art over its long history. It could be divided into two types: "external Kungfu" and "internal Kungfu". In external Kungfu, you exercise your tendons, bones, and skin. In internal kungfu, you train your spirit, Qi, and mind.

Sport is central to life in the modern world. Why do people play sport, watch sport, talk about sport, dream about sport? And why do they choose the sports that they choose? This course examines the modern passion for sport and seeks to explain this passion. It assesses to what extent the straightforward pursuit of pleasure overwhelms everything else when people chose to engage with sport. But it also looks at how such choices are defined (or refined) by the influence of ideology and tradition, class and gender, commerce and geography, education, and employment. From the colosseum of the Roman Empire to the stadia of the 21st century, this course considers the creation of the modern sporting world and analyzes the place of sport within the context of social, cultural, political, and economic change.

 

This course will extend each student's knowledge and understanding of the educational possibilities of top-roped rock climbing in New Zealand. Through the course students will critically analyze the literature relevant to top-roped rock climbing and use this analysis to plan, implement and evaluate a rock climbing experience which incorporates contemporary approaches to outdoor education and is supported by the New Zealand Curriculum. The technical and legal aspects of safety and risk are explored and students develop skills in establishing educational and safe rock climbing experiences. Through field trips to climbing areas in the Port Hills/ Nga Kohatu Whakarekareka o Tamatea Pokai Whenua, students learn about the importance of place to climbers and the significance to Tangata Whenua.

This course introduces methods which are necessary for success in sports. It covers major training methods, so students can understand the essential relationship between psychic (psycho-motor), mental, and bodily training. The course looks at the crucial differences between Japanese and German training practices. The instructor will also give advice about correcting problems such as excessive or monotone training practices that students might have conducted since childhood; training practices that are a waste of time; underestimation of the effects of mental training, and ignorance of necessary psycho-motor ability in training.