KIN 2501 Lecture 1: Kin 2501- 8:25
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Kinesiology is the study of human movement. Kinesiology as an academic discipline: body of knowledge, conceptual framework, process of discovery and end results, scholarly procedures and methods of inquiry. Information from a source that witnessed the occasion: secondary sources. Game- more organized effort at play: formal def. - a play activity which has explicit rules the element of opposition or contest, recognizable boundaries in time and sometimes in space, and a sequence of actions which is essentially repeatable. Descriptive: just the facts , detailed account of what happened in the past, provides. Interpretive: attempts to explain what happened in the past, introduce"s the narrators perspective into the interpretation. In uence: no other civilization embraced athletic competitions as the greeks did, in uences are from egyptians, the people of crete, and possibly the phoenicians. Physical position of the body: naturalistic. Man should have a balance program- harmonious balance among spiritual, intellectual and physical.