WTF You can get university credit for running?

It's even a competitive sport at many universities, though it is a dying one, which restores faith in human intelligence.

A lot of schools require one PE credit or more. I tested out of the PE class they make everyone take but still had to take a fitness class (karate) for example. Others offered were things like climbing, horseback riding, swimming, and Walking and Stretching. I think aerobic conditioning was one too.

Some schools also give athletes a PE credit. I had a friend who received one PE credit every semester for being a varsity athlete. I don't think this is common practice though..

I got exempted form taking a pe course because I was running xc. Didn't get any credits for it though.

How is it different than any other sports class? I took golf, racquetball, and probably other 1 cr sports classes.

Lots of universities offer a full array of physical activity classes. It's normal- get a credit for tennis, racquetball, weight lifting, walking, running, bowling, etc. Normally pass-fail classes. If it is the U of Minnesota you are talking about they also have a marathon training class.

I know at BYU you get .25 or .5 credits if you're a part of the cross country / track teams. Which is pretty much nothing. But it's still something, I guess.

True story: a friend of mine took the jogging class at the college we attended and the rumor was that if you ran a sub 12:00 2 mile for the final, you got an automatic A. He showed up to the first class, and the last. He won the final, running 11:55 or so, raised his arms and went to go check in with the TA. She alerted him the Urban Legend of the sub-12 was false and he failed the 1 hour credit of jogging. He should have read the syllabus, of course. Sadly, this was before youtube, etc.

Binghamton gave me 4 credits for XC and track

Only semi-related, but I know someone who got high school credit for an online jogging course offered through BYU.

http://is.byu.edu/site/courses/index.cfm?school=hs#course=jogging

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Took a PE course taught by one of the track coaches. Got an A, but then I ran a 9:39 two mile in class when the rest of the class was running 16:00.

That's pretty awesome.

I took both Golf and Bowling when I was in college.

I took table tennis 1 and table tennis 2. It was basically the table tennis club practice and you got a credit for attending.

The coach was a die-hard pen-gripper and I was a shake-gripper, so I didn't learn much from him.

When I ran XC in college, I took an elective called "running and conditioning". The teacher refused to let me leave after the required 3 mile run. She insisted I didn't do it in 20 minutes. It got to the point that she was convinced I was cheating. I got an -A

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I got an -A

You got a negative A? Sounds like a GPA killer.

Maryland had a one credit "intermediate jogging course," but you were graded based on improvement from start to end of the course, so I didn't take it. That'd suck for anyone already decent.

I took two one credit classes to fulfill the requirements for PE. One was fly and bait casting. Best course ever. The other was jogging, I kid you not. Since I was running cross country and came back to use my last year of eligibility, the professor let me take it as an independent study credit. The registrar said, "I didn't know we offered jogging as an independent study," I said, "Yes, ma'am. I have special issues." She apologized like crazy like I rode the short bus.

Fly and bait casting! LMAO!

I really missed out on the good times, studying tensor calculus and magnetohydrodynamics.

There are no fun electives permitted in majors like Engineering Physics, Astrophysics, or Biochemistry. Furthermore, IMO it is not possible to "double major" in any real course of study.

My wife got to take shop as an elective in her masters program--it was offered through the "theater" department. Her term project was to make a birdhouse--her first attempt was a disaster, and I had to sneak into the shop in the middle of the night and make one for her. The TA who supervised the class was always high as a kite on pot.

Neither of us knew that this kind of shadow-world existed on the university campus.

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Only semi-related, but I know someone who got high school credit for an online jogging course offered through BYU.

http://is.byu.edu/site/courses/index.cfm?school=hs#course=jogging

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Yup, that's a thing. I didn't know it was a high school course, too. That's actually pretty cool. As a Physical Education course, it's way better at getting kids active than playing dodgeball and having every girl in the class just watch.