Department Chair: Jerry Stieger , Ph.D.
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Jerry.Stieger@valpo.edu
Majors
offered:
Physical Education, B.S.P.E.
Concentration Majors:
Exercise Science, Sports Management, and Physical
Education Teacher Education
Links to Web sites:
Catalog: Department of
Physical Education
Department of Physical Education
(department
maintained)
VALPO PHYSICAL EDUCATION MAJORS do more than just stay in shape. They enjoy hands-on training in such areas as kinesiology, teaching, coaching, and learn how to help others live healthily.
What Can You Do with a Physical Education Major?
Degree, Skills or Experience Needed for
Beginning a Job in This Field:
Bachelor
of Science in Physical Education,
Exercise Science, and Sports Management. Skills
in the areas of teaching physical education,
coaching, officiating, exercise
science, and sports management. Individuals
pursuing employment in these areas need to have
effective interpersonal skills, enjoy working
with people and a desire to provide services
for others.
Kinds of Work Available
to Graduates in this Major:
Teaching
(education); coaching; intercollegiate
and professional sports management; facility
management; community and campus recreation;
sports information; sports marketing; fitness
programming and leisure sports industries.
Potential Hiring Institutions:
Public school systems, YMCA's, park and
recreation departments, private health clubs, boys’ and girls’ clubs, high
schools (teacher), colleges (
instructor in athletic administration), professional sports organizations,
corporate fitness centers, health clubs, private sports medicine
clinics.
What Beyond-the-Classroom Opportunities Does Valpo Offer You in
Physical Education?
Extracurricular Groups: Phi Epsilon Kappa – the Physical Education National Honor Society (www.valpo.edu/phyed/pekmain/html), Physical Education Majors/Minors Club, and Student Advisory Council. Valpo offers more than 100 organizations for its students.
Off-Campus Opportunities
Internships/Co-ops:
Study Abroad:
Alumni: Marge Albohm, sixth woman in
the U.S. certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association; Indiana
Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame; National Athletic Trainers Association
Hall of Fame, Women’s Institute on Sport and Education Hall of Fame; World
University Games and Winter Olympic Games Medical Staff Bryce Drew, point guard,
Charlotte Hornets Beth Goldman, Event
Coordinator, United Center, Chicago Lloyd McClendon, Manager,
Pittsburgh Pirates Kevin Spudic, Manager of
Special Sales Programs, Chicago White Sox Jon Steinbrecher, Mid-Continent Conference
Commissioner
Physical Education majors have
participated in internship programs with various organizations including
the Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Wave, Indianapolis Ice, Chicago Cubs,
Chicago White Sox, Houston Rockets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic,
Pittsburgh Penguins, South Bend Silverhawks, Fort Wayne Fury, and with
sports agents and attorneys, YMCAs, athletic conferences, health and
fitness clubs community hospitals and rehabilitation facilities, parks and
recreation departments, local high schools and sports medicine clinics,
and boys’ & girls’ clubs. Physical Education Teacher Education majors
student teach at elementary and secondary schools in the area. www.valpo.edu/phyed/smintsr.html
Students may take advantage of any of Valpo’s 14 study abroad
programs as well as its semester programs in Chicago, New York, and
Washington, D.C.
Recent Graduates with majors in Physical
Education include:
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