Mar 13, 2025  
Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Catalog 2024-2025

PE 185SU Swimming, Adv


Lab Hours: 3
Credits: 1

Develops and improves swimming skills and fitness levels through a pool workout. Emphasis will include stroke improvement and swim conditioning.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Beginning 

  1. Demonstrate full participation in pool workouts. 
  2. Demonstrate rhythmic breathing, twenty times continuous. 
  3. Demonstrate prone float and prone float with kick. 
  4. Demonstrate back float and back float with kick. 
  5. Demonstrate turning over and changing directions. 
  6. Demonstrate jump, level, and swim. 
  7. Demonstrate ability to swim at least one length side stroke and elementary back stroke. 
  8. Demonstrate ability to swim at least one length of beginner stroke. 

Intermediate 

  1. Meet all beginning outcomes. 
  2. Demonstrate full participation in pool workouts. 
  3. Demonstrate ability to swim at least one length of front crawl and back crawl. 
  4. Demonstrate ability to swim at least 1/2 length of breast stroke, underwater swim, and swim with rhythmic side breathing. 
  5. Demonstrate treading water one minute, and front dive (if deep water pool available). 
  6. Demonstrate duck dive. 
  7. Swim 1/2 continuous mile at individual pace (or equivalent alternative arranged with the instructor). 

Advanced 

  1. Meet all beginning and intermediate outcomes. 
  2. Demonstrate full participation in pool workouts. 
  3. Demonstrate ability to swim two+ lengths with rhythmic side breathing. 
  4. Demonstrate proficiency in the crawl stroke, back crawl, breast stroke, side stroke, elementary backstroke and open turning. 
  5. Swim one continuous mile at individual pace (or equivalent alternative arranged with instructor). 


Content Outline
Beginning 

  • Front float 
  • Back float 
  • Bobbing 
  • Front float with kick 
  • Back float with kick 
  • Elementary backstroke 
  • Side stroke 
  • Turning over 
  • Beginner stroke 
  • Crawl stroke 
  • Basic water safety skills 

Intermediate 

  • Crawl stroke (review/improve) 
  • Back crawl 
  • Breaststroke 
  • Front dive 
  • Open turns 
  • Underwater swim 
  • Safety skills 

Advanced 

  • Survival floating 
  • Sculling 
  • Artificial respiration 
  • Butterfly 
  • Competitive dives and turns 
  • Interval training