Compulsory Courses

Physical Education Courses Study Scheme 

The two Physical Education (PE) course are the University Core courses of CUHK-Shenzhen which offered to all full-time undergraduates. All full-time undergraduates are required to complete 2 units of PE courses for graduation. It is composed of two categories of courses—PED1001 Physical Education and PED1002 Fitness and Health. All full-time undergraduates are required to take one unit of PE in the first and second terms respectively during their first year in the University, and are not allowed to take more than 1 unit of PE compulsory courses per semester.

1. Overview of Physical Education Courses

1.1 PE courses aim to foster the whole-person development of all full-time undergraduates. The courses focus on guiding students about the importance of sports participation and arousing their interest towards sports, so that students can ultimately cultivate a lifelong habit of participating in physical activities.

1.2 PE courses aim to equip all full-time undergraduates with basic sports skills and abilities, enhance their communication, teamwork, and collaboration skills, and achieve healthy development both physically and psychologically, which enables them to fit to confront difficulties in the challenging workplace in the future.

1.3 Through taking part in sports activities, students can have a knowledge of sports, establish the awareness of fitness, strengthen their physical fitness, and cultivate skills and attitudes for independent physical exercise.

2. Enrollment Rules

2.1 All full-time undergraduates are required to complete the following two compulsory courses during their first year in the University (1 unit for each course, total 2 units)

  1. First Term: PED1001 Physical Education
  2. Second Term: PED1002 Fitness and Health

2.2 The PE courses offered cover the following sports items (including but not limited to) listed in the table below. Students can choose the sports items according to their own preferences and physical conditions (Each student can only take one sport item in a term and no student can take the same sport item for PED1001 and PED1002).

PE Courses List
Course Code Course Title Units

PED1001 Physical Education/

PED1002 Health and Fitness
Volleyball 1
Handball 1
Badminton 1
Barre 1
Freestyle 1
Breaststroke 1
Golf 1
Table Tennis 1
Frisbee 1
Soccer 1
Basketball 1
Tennis 1
Floor Curling 1
Taekwondo 1
Rock Climbing 1
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) 1

2.3 All full-time undergraduates are required to take PED1001 and PED1002 in the first and second terms respectively during their first year in the University. 1) Students who have not enrolled in one or two PE courses above in their first year are required to submit an application form to choose the missed PE course(s) when they are in their Years 2-4, and they can only participate in the PE course(s) assigned by PEU. 2) Students who have failed PE course(s) in first time may take the course again either with the same sport, or with a different sport.

 

Courses Introduction

Soccer
Soccer is known as "the world's first sport", mainly to complete technical moves with feet. The two teams compete against each other, judging by the number of goals scored.
  • Students can learn the basic knowledge and special skills of soccer from this course. By learning the basic movements of soccer, such as operation, control, transmission, and shooting, as well as the historical development, tactics, and rules of soccer, etc., students develop their interests and hobbies in participating in soccer and promote their overall and healthy development and cooperation.
Handball
Handball is a sport that originated in Europe. Handball is like a mixture of football and rugby, while some rules of handball are evolved from basketball rules. In a standard handball game, each team sends seven players, 6 regular players and 1 goalkeeper, to compete on a 40-meter long and 20-meter wide court.
  • This course focuses on the basic techniques of handball and its history, development, tactics, rules, and referee gestures. By learning the basic movements of long and short distance pass, shooting, and goalkeeper, students gain handball skills, interpersonal skills, and teamwork spirit, at the same time, develop sportsmanship and form a positive and healthy life attitude.
Badminton
Badminton is a sport that uses a long-handled racket to hit badminton across the net. It can be played indoors and outdoors. According to the number of participants, it can be divided into singles and doubles.
  • This course mainly includes skills and basic theories of badminton. By learning tricks such as forehand and backhand grip, high ball, forehand and backhand picking, and ball killing, students understand the basic principles and related theories of badminton's technical moves. Through practice, increase their interests in sports, enhance their physical conditions and develop habits of regular exercise.
Tennis
Tennis is a beautiful and intense sport. It is usually played between two singles players or two pairs. The players hit the tennis ball with a tennis racket across the net on the tennis court. Nowadays, tennis is suitable for people from all walks of life and ages. It is called the world's second ball game.
  • This course focuses on tennis skills. By learning the grip, pace, down the earth with the forehand, down the earth with the backhand, serve, volley, full-field pull, single and double tactics, etc., students are able to grasp the basic skills of tennis. The course aims to cultivate students to overcome difficulties, tenaciously struggle, unit and cooperate, establish a lifelong sports concept.
Floor Curling
Floor curling is an integrated team sport for all ages and abilities, which is a throwing sport performed on smooth ground. You can achieve the goal of winning by stopping your stone at a preset position or by knocking out the opponent's stone. Floor curling breaks through the restrictions of the venue. It is a game that combines teamwork and intelligence. It is a sport that requires both personal skills and team tactics.
  • This course mainly includes the basic rules of floor curling, serve trick and training method, eight kinds of practical skills of floor curling, maintenance of equipment and attention points, as well as the general etiquette during training and games. Through the course, students can experience and understand the sports well, and can also improve their teamwork ability, leadership ability, planning ability, and coordination ability.
Frisbee
Frisbee is a newly-emerged sport, the word also refers to the plastic disc-shaped utensils the sport uses. The basic rule is to throw it hard into the air. After a flight, catch it by yourself or others when it’s about to land. In recent years, various rules of Frisbee have been developed.
  • This course enables students to learn frisbee skills, including holding discs, forehand throw, backhand throw, two-handed closed catching and crab-clip catching, fake moves, upside-down dish, offensive, and defensive tricks, technical and tactical competing ability, etc. By taking the course, students get to know the sport well, gain the basic skills of Frisbee, and cultivate the ability to overcome difficulties by teamwork.
Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a martial art characterized by punching and kicking techniques. It emphasizes head-height kicks, jumping spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques. It has a high practical value of self-defense and physique building.
  • Students can learn basic Taekwondo skills in this course. Through the study of Taekwondo competing skills, self-defense, breaking, and sparring, students get to grasp fundamental Taekwondo skills, understand its spirit, develop exercise habits, strengthen their bodies during the course.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
Mixed Martial Arts, MMA, is a competitive sport in which athletes use boxing, Thai boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jujitsu, Taekwondo, and other fighting techniques.
  • This course mainly involves punching and kicking skills, elbow and knee movement, wrestling, ground skills, combination skills, self-defense technique, and other practical skills, aiming to improve students' fitness through physical training. Besides, the course also helps students learn comprehensive fighting theory and competition rules.
Barre
Barre originated from California, USA, is a comprehensive training course integrating Pilates, ballet basic standing, aerobic exercise, and yoga stretching. It is a fashionable body training method by using some small tools (stretching belt, yoga ball, yoga mat, dumbbell, etc.) along with rhythmic music. It helps to train muscle lines and improve body flexibility and resilience. Long-term practice can achieve correction and improvement of posture, mould arm, hip and leg.
  • This course is both interesting and challenging. Teachers demonstrate and guide students following the music beat, to achieve the training effect through various exercises. 
Table Tennis
Table tennis is China’s national sport. It is also known as ping-pong, which is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small rackets. Table tennis is a both competitive and entertaining sport.
  • This course mainly involves the basic knowledge of table tennis. Students will learn the skills of forehand, backhand, and pushing. By using theory and practice teaching mode, the teacher guides the students to take part in practice and daily exercise.
Golf
Golf, or golf ball, is a competitive and recreational game. It requires high concentration and accuracy. It is a lifelong sport that players and fans around the world enjoy.
  • This course is mainly about the basic knowledge of golf, as well as the practice of shooting techniques of 7-iron golf clubs and putters. Through the analysis and practical application of golf-related knowledge, students enhance their interests in it, improve sports skills, and expand social skills.
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport and physical adversarial sport which originated in the US. Players from two teams pass the ball with their hands. The sport includes moves of dribbling, passing, controlling, shooting, etc, with the characteristics of collectivity and challenging.
  • Students learn the fundamental techniques and rules of basketball games. Through practicing and learning basic moves, passing and catching skills, dribbling skills, shooting, defense, competing tactics, and other content, students enhance their basketball skills and teamwork ability, most importantly, enjoy the sport.
Volleyball
Volleyball originated in the US at the end of the 19th century. It mainly uses hands to serve, pad, pass, smash, and block to organize attack and defense.
  • This course is mainly about the five basic skills of volleyball as well as its history, development, tactics, rules, and referee gestures. By learning the basic movements and skills of serving, blocking, spiking, setting, and passing, the students can grasp volleyball skills and promote their mental health, interpersonal communication skills, and cooperation spirit, at the same time, further develop a positive, enterprising and optimistic attitude towards life.
Rock Climbing
Rock climbing, as a fashionable leisure sport that lets participants push the envelope, integrates skills and fitness. The climber moves across the rock face, which requires the coordination of organs, systems, muscle, nerve, and mind to keep body balance, obtain the sense of conquest of challenging nature and self.
  • This course is mainly about the basic methods of rock climbing. Through the study of knot, basic climbing technique, three-point balance skill, horizontal movement skill, horizontal climbing, upward climbing, descending protection, and other climbing skills, students can not only experience the physical and mental pleasure and charm brought by rock climbing but also cultivate courage and sense of self-challenge, physical ability, teamwork, hard-working and innovative spirit.
Swimming
Swimming is a sport that the swimmer moves regularly when floating under the buoyancy of water. Swimming includes both competitive and practical swimming. Competitive swimming is the second-largest event in the Olympic Games. It includes four swimming styles: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, as well as synchronized swimming.
  • The swimming course is divided into breaststroke and freestyle course. It aims to help students master the basic knowledge and practical skills of swimming, cultivate students’ sportsmanship, and develop their sports interests. The swimming theory includes the introduction of rules, basic movements, and physical fitness knowledge, etc. The practice class includes the exercises of breathing, leg, hand, and the full set actions.