Becoming Skilled in Wellness and Physical Literacy through Invasion Games

Catalog description

This course is designed to build on students’ exploration in their 100-level Wellness and Physical Literacy course. Students select this course based on their Wellness and Physical Literacy Plan and strive to go in-depth with specific wellness subcategories and one to two movement areas of their choice. Invasion games are sport games that involve opening space on offense to solve tactical problems and score, as well as closing space on defense to prevent opponent from scoring. This course is taught with a Sport Education instructional model for the entire semester. Students explore roles such as coach, official, scorer, player, statistician, and others.