It builds teams and fosters their pursuit of solidarity, cohesive power, efficiency, and excellence. It provides opportunity and incentive for recreational sport of a sort that contributes not only to good health, but also to fuller understanding of the importance of physical activity in mature life. In every mode and component of its diverse program, physical education emphasizes the development of physical strength and endurance, skill, and agility. The diversity of Wesleyan's physical education program reflects a commitment to equal opportunity for men and women at varied levels of achievement to develop their athletic potential. The objective is to provide a broad range of programs that will meet the needs of all students for athletic participation, whether they seek to learn a lifetime sport, maintain acquired skills in intramural play, achieve more sophisticated mastery in intercollegiate competition, or attain a higher level of physical fitness through a program of instruction.
Programmatic balance is a key criterion of physical education.
The program should be internally balanced to ensure equal opportunity for the pursuit of its several objectives. Moreover, physical education should be construed within the controlling context of liberal education. The successful program will be well integrated in that context and sensitive to its demands.