School of Education

LEFT: Students in the Outdoor Adventure Course (PHED 309A) retrieve a submerged canoe in a class in the Reilly Center pool. 

BELOW: Mountain Bike Polo is played by students in PHED 201-202, Individual and Dual Sport and Physical Activities.

For more photos, information on these two classes, click here. 

Preparing individuals to teach and coach

The undergraduate major in physical education is designed to prepare individuals to teach physical education and provides certification to coach at the middle and high school levels.

The program poses an integrated concentration of courses in motor development, health-related fitness and wellness, biological sciences, rhythms, individual and dual sport methods courses, elementary and secondary methods, physical education for exceptional children,adventure education and two aquatics certifications all with an emphasis on learning how to teach.

Students begin studying physical education foundations and applications to human development and learning as yearly as the freshman year. This is accompanied with over 20 contact hours of supervised field experience with an on-campus preschool motor development program involving preschool children with and without disabilities.

During the first two years of study, each activity course is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to learn and apply teaching applications. Ten contact hours in the schools is experienced during the sophomore year. The physical education program combined with the Clare College liberal arts requirements of the University provides physical education majors with a well-rounded undergraduate experience in the Franciscan mission of St. Bonaventure.

Program Information

For further information regarding the degree in Physical Education, please contact Dr. Paul Brawdy on the main campus at (716) 375-2248 or via e-mail at pbrawdy@sbu.edu. If you wish to apply to this program, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office at St. Bonaventure University at 1-800-462-5050 for undergraduate admission materials.