The Department offers a wide range of physical activity courses designed to improve motor performance, develop health-related lifetime fitness, promote social interactions, and thus serve as a foundation for life-long physical activity.

These courses have been approved as General Education courses in the domain of Personal and Social Responsiblity. Taking HPES 1500, Physical Activity Core Concepts, along with two other HPES activity courses, satisfies the requirments for GER credit. The three courses do NOT have to be taken concurrently.