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STS.014 Embodied Education: Past, Present, Future
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Not offered academic year 2024-2025Undergrad (Spring) HASS Social Sciences
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
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Discusses recent scientific and educational research that finds that the human body in motion is a medium for learning. Explores how and why physical education was integrated into the US educational system while remaining separate from academic subjects — and how and why 21st-century institutions might combine the two. Weekly in-lecture labs demonstrate how exercise can inform academic instruction and invite students to create future curricula. Students who enroll in this class may receive both HASS-S credit for it and may enroll to earn two Physical Education and Wellness (PE&W) points. Limited to 20.
J. S. Light, DAPER Instructors