Active Health
Overview
- Exercise in society
- Role of exercise in a healthy population
- Risk factors associated with sedentary behaviour
- Role of exercise for children, youth, adults, and aging populations
- Canadian guidelines for physical activity
- Components of physical fitness
- Anatomy and physiology related to components of physical fitness
- Training processes for development of health-related components of physical fitness
- Training effects associated with the development of health-related components of physical fitness
- Benefits of improving health-related components of physical fitness
- Risk factors associated with low levels of physical fitness
- Skill-related components of physical fitness
- Exercise programs
- Principles of training for physical fitness
- Components and the effects of the warm-up and cool-down phases
- Warm-up and cool-down design and implementation
- Types of classic exercise programs
- Types of contemporary exercise programs
- Factors associated with the development of skill-related fitness
- Physical fitness assessment
- Role of physical fitness assessment with respect to exercise programs
- Types of physical fitness assessment, including lab and field testing
- Purpose of physical fitness assessment
- Methods of physical fitness assessment
- Design and implementation of exercise programs
- Design of exercise programs for various fitness objectives
- Monitoring and evaluation of exercise programs
- Considerations for injury prevention
- Factors involved with the implementation of exercise programs
- Variables associated with exercise
- Exercise contraindications
- Neuromuscular effects of stress and relaxation
- Nutrition, metabolism, and exercise
- Cause and impact of various injury types
- Musculoskeletal concepts associated with the care of the back
- Motivational factors involved in adhering to an exercise program
- Potential risks associated with exercise
- Effects of exercise on growth and development
- Fitness and wellness from a life-long perspective
Classroom time will be used for lectures and group discussions. Lab time will be used for practical applications and experiences, and peer teaching.
Assessment will be in accordance with the 51Ç鱨վ Evaluation Policy. The instructor will present a written course outline
with specific evaluation criteria at the beginning of the semester. Evaluation will be based on the following:
Participation | 0-10% |
Labs | 5-30% |
Assignments | 0-30% |
Fitness Leadership Project | 10-30% |
Personal Fitness Program | 10-30% |
Mid-Term Exam | 10-40% |
Final Exam | 10-40% |
Total | 100% |
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- discuss the role of exercise in society;
- describe the components of physical fitness;
- describe and demonstrate the application of exercise methods for fitness objectives;
- describe and conduct physical fitness assessments;
- design and implement exercise programs;
- explain the benefits of exercise;
- explain the adaptations caused by exercise;
- discuss the relationship of exercise with growth and development factors, health concepts, nutrition concepts, and the prevention of exercise-related injuries.
Consult the 51Ç鱨վ Bookstore for the latest required textbooks and materials. Example textbooks and materials may
include:
Powers, S., & Doff, S. (Current Edition). Total Fitness and Wellness. Pearson.
Requisites
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Equivalencies
None
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers to Other Institutions
Below are current transfer agreements from 51Ç鱨վ to other institutions for the current course guidelines only. For a full list of transfer details and archived courses, please see the .
Institution | Transfer details for SPSC 1103 |
---|---|
Camosun College (CAMO) | CAMO KIN 120 (3) or CAMO SPEX 1XX (3) |
Langara College (LANG) | LANG KINS 1120 (3) |
Okanagan College (OC) | OC HKIN 103 (3) |
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU BPK 143 (3) |
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU PHED 1230 (3) |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU HKIN 1XX (3) |
University Canada West (UCW) | UCW SCIE 1XX (3) |
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | UBCO HES_O 1st (3) |
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | UBCV KIN_V 120 (3) |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV KIN 103 (3) |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC EPHE 1XX (1.5) |
Vancouver Island University (VIU) | VIU KIN 232 (3) |
Course Offerings
Winter 2026
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
12787
|
Fri | Instructor last name
Sandhu
Instructor first name
Tristan
|
Course status
Open
|
SPSC 1103 001 - Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
12788
|
Tue Thu | Instructor last name
Kanerva
Instructor first name
Andrew
|
Course status
Open
|
SPSC 1103 002 Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
---|---|---|---|---|
CRN
13222
|
Tue Thu | Instructor last name
Sandhu
Instructor first name
Tristan
|
Course status
Open
|
SPSC 1103 003 - Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
---|---|---|---|---|
CRN
13524
|
Tue Thu | Instructor last name
Conner
Instructor first name
Sean
|
Course status
Open
|
SPSC 1103 004 - Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.