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This accessible introductory text explores the history, philosophies, and principles of today's physical education programs within a practical, career-oriented framework. Introduction to Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sport Studies explores the wide variety of career opportunities available in physical education and sport, including many non-teaching-related careers. This textbook teaches students how to make informed choices about their majors and maximize their professional studies by explaining the origins of different careers and the skills necessary to perform well at them. The eighth edition includes updated information on new individuals featured in career perspectives, additional web resources, current information and data about physical activity, more information about sport nutrition, and guidance on how to address ethical situations in physical education and sport.

Continues to incorporate even more information on how to use the Internet to search for jobs and career opportunities.
Integrates information on exercise science throughout the text, keeping students informed about the latest developments in the field and highlighting the relationship between exercise science, physical education, and sport studies.
Offers students the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the text content with Web boxes that encourage researching topics in depth on the internet.
Encourages students to think about various avenues of research in physical education, exercise science, and sport studies with new research boxes that address such topics as patterns of physical activity among American youth, what an exercise physiologist studies to enhance motor behavior, and questions a sport sociologist might pose to examine the impact that sport has on today's society.
Features the latest trends and theories, such as the increasing reliance on technology based equipment in research, use of motor control theories to address industrial problems, and addressing the equal opportunities for recreation for older Americans, updating the text content and references and providing students with the most current information.
Presents information concerning school programs, higher education, athletics, and sport and fitness careers in light of current trends in the field, and promotes thinking about issues for the future.
Explores the wide variety of career opportunities available, including non-teaching related careers in physical education and sport.
Includes coverage of the umbrella of physical education programs, including intramurals (outside of education), inclusion, and child-centered curricula.
COMP GUIDELINE This is the intro course taken by human performance majors. It used to be aimed at physical education but now includes information of the field outside of education as well as teaching.