KIN 252: Disciplines and Professions in Kinesiology One credit, graded (NOT pass-fail) No Face-to-face lectures, offered all online on Blackboard Instructor: Lisa Dukes Background: Undergraduate degree in Elementary Education and Coaching at Buena Vista University, Master s in Kinesiology at Iowa State University, taught Elementary and coached varsity sports for 5-6 years before coming to Iowa State as a lecturer, have taught as a full-time lecturer at Iowa State University for 12 years in the Kinesiology Department. I have taught this course as a face-to-face class for several years and the enrollment became too large for a physical lecture hall on campus, so we have decided to offer it online. This is the second semester that it has been offered online. Other classes that I teach currently are HS 110 (Personal and Consumer Health), KIN 315 (Coaching Theory), KIN 445 (Legal Aspects of Sport), and KIN 399 (Recreational Sport Management). Office Location: 279B Forker Building Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00-11:00, or by appointment. Please contact me if these hours do not work with your schedule and you need to meet face to face. There will be changes made occasionally and I will post those on Blackboard when that occurs. Note on Office appointments: Please let me know if you plan on coming in, just shoot me a quick email. If you stop in unannounced, I will not turn you away. But, you may waste a trip across campus to find me busy with another student appointment or taking care of other issues in the building and not knowing you are there. Contact Information: Please try to correspond through our Blackboard page s email system (left side of Blackboard page). If you have an urgent matter or haven t heard a response through Blackboard, feel free to email me at ldukes@iastate.edu. If you email me there, I will respond but will not know which class you are in unless you tell me, and I will not have a good organized record of it for future use. If it is something that needs to be recorded and saved, please send through Blackboard email. Also, my cell phone number is 515-291-5472 and that is the number that you should use to reach me by phone or text. I do not want to be flooded with text messages or phone calls, so please use this method sparingly (only in emergency or we can t resolve your issue through email, too complicated, personal, etc.). Please do NOT use the office number in the ISU directory as I do not use this number and do not check those messages (it is used by my other 3 office mates instead). Required Materials: A laptop/computer to use for Blackboard access/wifi access, a Blackboard account (an ISU netid to get into it immediately), Silverlight program (free) downloaded to your computer/laptop for panopto video viewing, adobe reader to read possible pdf documents posted, Microsoft word to read possible Microsoft word document posted, google chrome is the preferred web browser to use for accessing this course, reliable wifi or internet connection to access Blackboard class materials and quizzes, there is NO textbook (all required reading/viewing materials will be posted)
Course Objectives (behind each is the Department Learning Outcome that is covered by that objective(s)- listed below: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of Kinesiology, its disciplines, and options of study. (#2, #3) 2. Discover possible career and advanced study options in Kinesiology. (#2 and #4) 3. Recognize faculty in Kinesiology department and their area of study/research and classes taught. (#3) 4. Demonstrate understanding of a selection of current research and/or selected current topics in Kinesiology. (# 3) The objective of this course is to get you excited about Kinesiology! You will learn what Kinesiology is, what disciplines are studied in the field, who our department s major professors are, some research that is occurring in Kinesiology (and our department), what types of jobs there are in Kinesiology, and what kinds of classes you will take. Hopefully, this class will help you decide if Kinesiology is the right major for you and will expose you to different options within Kinesiology, which might suit you best. Department of Kinesiology Learning Outcomes: 1. Communication. Uses clear and effective written, oral, visual, and electronic (WOVE) communication techniques to foster inquiry, collaboration, and engagement in physical activity and health related settings. 2. Lifelong learning, assessment, and self-reflection. Analyzes and evaluates one's own knowledge, abilities and actions relative to professional standards, seeks opportunities to grow professionally, and utilizes self-assessment and assessment of others to foster physical, cognitive, social, and emotional well-being. 3. Content knowledge, discovery, and critical thinking. Understands fundamental concepts of physical activity and health, conducts scientific inquiry, and applies critical thinking to solve problems from personal, scholarly, and professional perspectives. 4. Ethics, diversity, and social justice. Demonstrates leadership and social responsibility to improve quality of life for others and ensures equitable access for diverse groups by creating appropriate environments to initiate and maintain a physically active, healthy lifestyle. College of Human Sciences Learning Outcomes Component Communication Self- Assessment/Self- Reflection Critical thinking Core Learning Outcomes Communicate with clear purpose, workable organization and effective style in written, oral, visual and electric (WOVE) formats without distracting errors in usage or convention Consistently and realistically analyze and evaluate one s own knowledge, abilities and actions in comparison to professional standards and create action plans to enhance personal and professional efficacy. Generate, acquire and evaluate information based on scientific evidence, creative processes, and logical and ethical reasoning to
make decisions and solve problems in one s personal, professional and community endeavors. Social Justice Articulate and demonstrate a clear concept of a just society in which individuals and groups equitably share in societal benefits within a global community Course Format: The course is broken into weekly modules in Blackboard. There is a folder called Weekly Modules in the course menu on the left side of the screen. If you are following the course schedule, you will complete a new module each week. The modules are numbered for the week of class that we are in for the semester. You need to complete all tasks listed for that module. Each module will include a video, and/or a posted reading assignment (usually both), and a quiz to take over all items within that module. Read the tasks carefully and be sure all items are completed in order. Then, be sure to check your My Grades in Blackboard to see that your score on the quiz was recorded properly. Please complete all modules in order. Each quiz within the module will be worth 10 points. Each quiz will have a time limit. Please see the instructions for how many questions the quiz has, the number of points per question, and the time limit for that quiz. It may change slightly from module to module. All quizzes will end when the time limit expires and only questions that were answered to that point will be grades, the rest will be counted as incorrect in the total. All quizzes will have multiple choice or true/false questions over the material included in that week s module. All quizzes will be random questions taken from a larger pool of questions, and presented in a random order (along with most answer choices being presented in a random order). Each question will be presented one at a time, and when you move onto the next question, the answer is automatically saved and you will NOT be allowed to go back and change it. There is NO backtracking! So, please be sure that it is the answer that you would like to choose before moving on to the next. The quizzes will not be re-opened due to accidentally hitting the wrong answer or the submit button, or not knowing the instructions before starting. Each week, the student may take each quiz once or twice. ONLY two attempts will be allowed per quiz. Because two attempts are allowed, there will be absolutely no re-opening of quizzes or quiz resets. If there is a problem with one of the quizzes, the other score will automatically be used as the recorded grade. Blackboard will automatically record your best score of these two attempts to the Blackboard gradebook. At the end of the semester, right when I am calculating Final Grades and all quizzes have officially closed, I will exclude your lowest module (recorded quiz score) from the grade calculation. All scores up to the Midterm deadline will be included in Midterm Grade calculations and then the modules will close for the rest of the semester. It is the student s responsibility to have all updates/settings to their computers necessary to run the Blackboard quizzes properly (Java, Silverlight, etc.). If you are unsure, please contact IT services here at ISU for information or refer to Blackboard student help. There is no midterm exam or final exam in this class.
Recommended Schedule, Module numbers, and Hard Deadlines/Closings: The recommended schedule is to complete one module per week. After the first week of classes when you were supposed to have completed module 1 regarding syllabus and policies/procedures, all modules will be open for you to work ahead, if you prefer. Please do your best to at least follow the recommended schedule so that you will keep up with the classwork and not miss the hard deadlines for Midterm Grades (modules 1-7 due date and closings), and Final Grades (modules 8-15 due date and closings). Modules 1-7 will close on Sunday October 11 at 11:59pm and will not be reopened for any reason. Modules 9-15 will close on Sunday December 13 at 11:59pmand will not be reopened for any reason. Extensions will absolutely not be granted, so please keep up with the schedule. There will be no sympathy for students that let their work pile up at the end and couldn t get everything done or done at a satisfactory level. The modules are pretty time intensive since we do not have an actual class meeting time, and usually include a 30-50 minute video, an article, and a quiz. Module 1- complete between Monday August 24 and Sunday August 30 Module 2- complete between Monday August 31 and Sunday September 6 Module 3- complete between Monday September 7 and Sunday September 13 Module 4- complete between Monday September 14 and Sunday September 20 Module 5- complete between Monday September 21 and Sunday September 27 Module 6- complete between Monday September 28 and Sunday October 4 Module 7- complete between Monday October 5 and Sunday October 11 Midterm Deadline! Sunday October 11 at 11:59pm, Modules 1-7 will officially close and not reopened for the rest of the semester! Midterm Grades will be calculated and turned in at this point. Module 8- complete between Monday October 12 and Sunday October 18 Module 9- complete between Monday October 19 and Sunday October 25 Module 10- complete between Monday October 26 and Sunday November 1 Module 11- complete between Monday November 2 and Sunday November 8 Module 12- complete between Monday November 9 and Sunday November 15 Module 13- complete between Monday November 16 and Sunday November 22 Thanksgiving Break Week- No Modules Due this week! Monday November 23- Sunday November 29 Module 14- complete between Monday November 30 and Sunday December 6 Module 15- complete between Monday December 7 and Sunday December 13 Final Grade Deadline! Sunday December 13 at 11:59pm, Modules 8-15 will officially close and not reopened for any reason as Final Grades will be calculated and turned in at this time! Finals Week- The week of Monday December 14 (nothing assigned, no final exam)
Note about the course and schedule: Online courses require more responsibility for students. You need to remember to complete the modules each week on your own. I allowed a more open schedule so that students had more flexibility in timing according to their own schedules and other course loads. However, I will stick to those midterm and final deadlines and will not allow extensions for not being a responsible student. Also, even though this is an introductory course, it is NOT easy. It was designed by a department that takes its options, careers, and disciplines very seriously. Many of you are going into professions in the field where there are very high expectations for health and safety reasons. You will see a high standard for success in this department and so the professors in this department have designed this course to prepare you for that type of rigor. I have been tasked with administering the course for the department and will uphold this standard. Please do not shrug off this class as easy or unimportant and find out later that it was something that should have been taken more seriously, even compared to your other classes this semester. Please remember that this is a GRADED course, and a MAJOR course for Kinesiology students. Grading Information: Each Module will be worth 10 points (each module will include a 10 point quiz which can be attempted twice and the best score is recorded). There are 15 total modules, but the lowest module score will be dropped when final grades are calculated. Therefore, 14 graded modules X 10 points= 140 total points in the class at Final Grades (70 points at Midterm grades with no excluded scores). If a quiz is not completed, it will count as a zero in the gradebook. If a zero is the lowest score at the end of the semester, one of the zeroes will be thrown out at Final Grades. Your total earned points will be divided by the total points possible (70 at Midterm, 140 at Final). This will give me your percentage in the class and you will be assigned a grade based on that percentage. The grading scheme is below: Grading Scheme 93-100% = A 90-92% = A- 88-89% = B+ 83-87% = B 80-82% = B- 78-79% = C+ 73-77% = C 70-72% = C- 68-69% = D+ 63-67% = D 60-62% = D- and <59%= F NOTES about Grades: You will have ONE opportunity for extra credit and that will be to complete the course/instructor evaluation at the end of the semester. The university will send out that reminder in an email and you will know the opening/closing dates of those evaluations. I will receive the list of students who completed them during Finals Week and will add them into your final grade calculations. Besides that opportunity, there will be NO more extra credit opportunities for students this semester, definitely not at the individual level for any reason. I will also not be accepting any late work or giving any extensions. Also, your points are to be earned in the above ways only. It is YOUR problem if you miss several of them, or do poorly on a few to hurt your grade. Even if you are a great kid and a good student, I will not give extra credit points in my classes to help boost your grade. Put all of your effort into these listed ways of earning points and you will be fine. Also, I will NOT bump you up to the next grade or +, etc. because you are really close (yes, even one point away). I have to draw the line somewhere to make it
fair for everybody (even if you took every quiz every week and tried your hardest, etc. ), you will receive the grade that you earned my spreadsheet is set up to round to the nearest whole percent- and then to assign the proper grade to you. I really don t even look at each individual one unless there is a problem. Refer to the chart above for the grading scheme. I will not accommodate point scrambling, and can t tell the difference between those who wait until the last week of class or after grades are released to complain or alert me of technical issues, illness, or grading issues from those who are just trying to get a few points to raise their grades. So, don t do either one. Other important Class Information (below): Academic Dishonesty Policy: You will find the official university policy at the following link on the iastate homepage http://www.dso.iastate.edu/ja/academic/misconduct.html Here are a few items worth noting that pertain to this class: 1. Fabricating data or doctoring emails or other official documents for class IS academic dishonesty and will warrant severe consequences the FIRST time that you are caught. 2. Being dishonest about reasons for late work, computer issues, etc. is also considered academic dishonesty and will warrant severe consequences the FIRST time that you are caught. 3. Getting answers or questions from quizzes/tests that are being administered in this class, working in groups on quizzes/tests, using another student s notes on quizzes/tests, or sharing answers is considered academic dishonesty and will warrant severe consequences the FIRST time that you are caught. 4. Allowing someone else to take the quizzes/tests on Blackboard for you (or taking a quiz for someone else) is considered academic dishonesty and will warrant severe consequences the FIRST time that you are caught. 5. Academic dishonesty matters are NOT handled by individual instructors in this department but are required to be sent to the University level right away. So, even if a case is questionable and not proven, it will be sent on for further investigation by the university (not the instructor or department). IMPORTANT NOTE about Blackboard: There is tracking data within Blackboard. Instructors have some access to your log-in, out, and course tool usage and times. If necessary, Blackboard can pull up even more detailed information for an academic dishonesty case for instructors or University level investigations. I will use the tracking information to make decisions and check on students throughout the semester. Special Needs: If you have a documented disability that may affect your ability to participate fully in the course or if you require special accommodations, you are encouraged to speak with the instructors during the first week of class, so that appropriate accommodations can be arranged. Please request that a Disability Resources staff send a SAAR form verifying your disability and specifying the accommodations you will need. The Disability Resources office is in 1076 Student Services Building and their phone number is 294-7220. Please see the following link on the iastate homepage for information on Academic Accommodations: http://www.dso.iastate.edu/dr/student/
Important Note: I will agree to accommodations that SAAR has recommended and that I agree is reasonable for my course. I will also add one more requirement to your sheet for my class and that is that YOU are required to remind me one week before exams, quizzes, and assignment deadlines if you need special plans made (a room scheduled at Hixson, a special option changed in a Bb quiz or assignment link, etc.). Since you are capable college students, I will NOT keep track of your needs for you. You need to keep track of them, remind me, and be sure that you receive the accommodations. If you do not tell me one week ahead of time, then you are not going to receive the accommodation, even though I signed your SAAR sheet. I will write this into the SAAR form to be sure that you are aware of our agreement. Dead Week For academic programs, the last week of classes is considered to be a normal week in the semester except that in developing their syllabi faculty shall consider the following guidelines: Mandatory final examinations in any course may not be given during Dead Week except for laboratory courses and for those classes meeting once a week only and for which there is no contact during the normal final exam week. Take home final exams and small quizzes are generally acceptable. (For example, quizzes worth no more than 10 percent of the final grade and/or that cover no more than one-fourth of assigned reading material in the course could be given). Major course assignments should be assigned prior to Dead Week (major assignments include major research papers, projects, etc.). Any modifications to assignments should be made in a timely fashion to give students adequate time to complete the assignments. Major course assignments should be due no later than the Friday prior to Dead Week. Exceptions include class presentations by students, semester-long projects such as a design project in lieu of a final, and extensions of the deadline requested by students. Harassment and Discrimination "Iowa State University strives to maintain our campus as a place of work and study for faculty, staff, and students that is free of all forms of prohibited discrimination and harassment based upon race, ethnicity, sex (including sexual assault), pregnancy, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or status as a U.S. veteran. Any student who has concerns about such behavior should contact his/her instructor, Student Assistance at 515-294-1020, or the Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance at 515-294-7612." Religious Accommodation If an academic or work requirement conflicts with your religious practices and/or observances, you may request reasonable accommodations. Your request must be in writing, and your instructor or supervisor will review the request. You or your instructor may also seek assistance from the Dean of Students Office or the Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance. Contact Information If you are experiencing or have experienced a problem with or violation of any of the above guidelines, contact academicissues@iastate.edu.
Other Considerations: I will try to correspond to emails in a timely manner. However, I will not be on call 24 hours a day and weekends. I will check them regularly, at least once a day on weekends and at least a few times per day on weekdays. I will not be checking them late at night and will respond to more emergent issues first. If you ask a question that was covered in this syllabus, I will refer you back to this document. I will respond simply with a Refer to your syllabus, please. If you still have questions after having read the syllabus, I will talk about it with you in person. If an issue is important, I prefer talking to you about it in person. Sometimes email is not the best method of correspondence. If I need to talk to you face-to-face, I will simply ask you to schedule an appointment with me outside of class time to resolve the issue. If this is not done, it is your responsibility to deal with the consequences or figure out the problem on your own.