Courses
Physical Education and Health
The Physical Education and Health courses are the University Core courses of CUHKShenzhen which offered to all full-time undergraduates. All full-time undergraduates are required to complete 2 units of Physical Education 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.