<p>By credit I mean to fulfill my graduation requirement of two PEs. The reason I am asking is that I never learned how to swim and this semester I was in beginner's swim and I learned a lot of things but I don't think I am competent enough to go into the big pool comfortably (I have only gone there once). As a result, next semester, I decided to take Advanced Beginner Swimming but now I see that that is in the big pool. I don't know if I can handle it. So can I take the same PE course I am taking now and still get credit for it?</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know what we do in Advanced Beginner Swim? Like am I allowed to go to the small pool and practice there or am I required to stay in the big pool all the time?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I think you should take advanced swimming, provided your instructor feels that you are capable of completing it. What doesn’t kill you…</p>
<p>Well…if you didn’t take the swim test during orientation you’ll have to take it and it’s given in the deep pool at Teagle. </p>
<p>As somebody who teaches swim lessons…I can understand a person’s fear of deep water. But…the best way to get over that fear is to confront it. Besides…your teacher is certified lifeguard and there is always a lifeguard on duty during lessons :-)</p>
<p>If your instructors thinks you’re strong enough to move on…I think you should go for it. I’m not sure about the policy on repeating PE courses…best to check with the department.</p>
<p>Yea that’s true dewdrop. It’s just that I don’t want to go into the big pool till I get my arithmetic breathing (I think that is what it is called) down. And since I really don’t want to practice that in the big pool, I think the small pool would be more applicable for me. Also, does the “shallow pool” indicate the big pool or the small one?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>arithmetic breathing? In my 11 years of competitive swimming I never heard that term :-)</p>
<p>The shallow pool is the small pool in Teagle. A lot of people who took advanced beginners swim in the deep pool also practiced outside of class in the shallow pool…just a thought!</p>
<p>I hope to God I pass the swim test so I can avoid all these swimming lessons!
High school swim lessons=hell.</p>
<p>You have to take different classes. I was planning on taking the same class for both semesters, but the teacher said each class had to be different. So I enrolled in another class of the same activiy with the same instructor at a different level, but attended the one I was actually interested in taking and fit in my schedule. This might be confusing…but talk to the instructor to see if it works for you, some may be more flexible than others.</p>