Education Preparation
If you are interested in teaching, the Education Preparation Option is ideal. It is designed to help prepare students with interests in recreation, sports, and healthy living to become teachers in the public school system (K -12 grades) or other educational settings. This Option focuses on:
- The importance of physical activity
- Developing program planning skills
- Fostering healthy living lifestyles in school-age children
Earn a teachable major in Physical Education
The Education Preparation Option provides you with a teachable in Physical Education. Specific courses required for this teachable include:
- Biol 1711, Human Anatomy I
- Biol 1782, Human Physiology I
- Kin 2051, Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries
- Kin 2062, Introductory Biomechanics
- Kin 2072, Introduction to Motor Control and Learning
- Kin 3041, Disability Awareness
- Kin 3081, Physio Basis for Physical Activity
- 8 credit hours of activity courses
Apply for your Bachelor of Education degree
After graduation from BRSS-Education Preparation, students apply to Education programs to acquire a Bachelor of Education degree.
The Faculty of Education provides conditional offers of acceptance to exceptional high school and first year UNB students. For more information on this opportunity, check the Faculty of Education Admission Advantage (FEAA) in the UNB Undergraduate Calendar.
Learn by doing
You will gain knowledge and practical experience in the following:
- The role of sport, recreation and physical activity in individual lives and communities
- The value of sport and recreation throughout the life span
- The coaching, leadership, and management skills needed in areas of physical activities, recreation and sport
- The form and function of the human body
- The functional responses of humans to exercise
- Leadership skills in out-of-classroom settings
- Personal competency in the field of recreation, sport and healthy living skills
