Undergraduate Course: Sport Science 1A (SPRT08002)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is a 2-part course covering two key disciplines within Sport Science: Exercise Physiology and Skill Acquisition.
Exercise Physiology is defined as the branch of the biological sciences that is concerned with the way that the body responds to exercise and training (BASES definition). This part of the course will examine how the different physiological systems respond and adapt to muscular activity. Muscular activity can range from gentle day to day activity to the highest intensity efforts in performance sport. Knowledge and understanding of exercise physiology can help improve health and benefit human performance.
Skill Acquisition is the branch of movement science that examines how movement skills are learned (or re-learned after injury or disease) and how coaches, PE teachers and physical therapists can facilitate this process. This is an inter-disciplinary area, where psychology, physiology, anatomy and neurology come together to explain human motor function. To understand motor learning, we will first examine two conflicting theories of how movements are controlled. We will then look at motor learning and various teaching techniques.
Both parts of the course have their own teaching, learning and assessment. To pass this course your overall mark will have to be 40% or higher. If you do poorly in one discipline, you can 'compensate' to some extent if you have higher marks in the other. |
| Course description |
This teaching and learning is research-led. Members of academic staff the Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Science (ISPEHS) who contribute to this course are all members of one or more of the following research groups hosted by ISPEHS: (1) Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAHRC), (2) Edinburgh Sports Research, (3) Human Performance and Aquatics and (4) Physical Education Research Forum (PERF).
PART 1 - Exercise Physiology
This wing of the course gives an overview of the main physiological systems responsible for efficient and effective human movement. Application will be made to the spectrum of physical activity.
Key topics: overview of the cardiovascular, respiratory, and energy systems and how these systems coordinate their functions during exercise and training.
PART 2 - Skill Acquisition
This wing of the course will provide an overview of the theoretical processes underlying the learning and performance of physical skills, factors affecting skill learning and performance, and the application to the learning environment.
Key topics: skill definition and classification, motor coordination, the degrees of freedom problem, constraints-led and information-processing approaches to motor control, motor learning and teaching/coaching of motor skills in applied contexts.
Student Learning Experience
The course will be taught using a combination of lectures and supporting tutorial/practical sessions. Students are expected to engage in their students by attending all scheduled sessions, asking questions, taking part in discussions, and being active in practical sessions. Students will be given formative assessment and feedback designed to enable self-evaluation of progress on the course, which will support the students efforts in their summative assessments, which is where demonstration of achievement of the learning outcomes will be evaluated.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the defining features and functions of the major physiological systems involved in exercise.
- Evaluate the responses of the major physiological systems to exercise/training in order to synthesize this knowledge and appreciate the coordinated nature of the physiological response.
- Demonstrate understanding of the information-processing and constrains-led/dynamic systems approaches to motor coordination and motor learning.
- Use information-processing and constraints-led/dynamic systems approaches to evaluate teaching techniques used in the teaching and coaching of motor skills.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of exercise physiology and skill acquisition by undertaking basic experimental investigation of key physiological responses to exercise and designing a teaching session in relation to a given skill learning problem.
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Reading List
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY:
The two main texts used in this wing of the course are:
Kenney, W.L., Wilmore, J.H. and Costill, D.L. (2012) Physiology of Sport and Exercise, (5th Edition), Human Kinetics, Champaign, Illinois.
McArdle, W.D., Katch, F.I. and Katch, V.L. (2010) Exercise Physiology: Nutrition, Energy and Human Performance, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia.
Additional readings and learning resources will be signposted during the course.
SKILL ACQUISITION:
The two main texts used in this wing of the course are:
Davids, K., Button, C., & Bennett, S. (2008). Dynamics of Skill Acquisition; A Constraints-Led Approach. Leeds: Human Kinetics.
Magill, R. A. (2007 or other edition) Motor Learning: Concepts and Applications. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Additional readings and learning resources will be signposted during the course. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
This course addresses 12 of the 20 graduate attributes developed on the BSc Applied Sport Science degree:
Research and Enquiry:
(2) Search for, access, critically analyse, evaluate and synthesize information from literature in order to answer research questions in sport and exercise sciences.
(4) Interpret data collected or reported in sport, physical activity and exercise studies.
(6) Develop logical arguments surrounding issues within sport science, physical activity and exercise.
Personal and Intellectual Autonomy:
(7) Be independent learners who can take responsibility for their own learning.
(8) Be able to respond to unfamiliar problems by extrapolating their existing knowledge and understanding.
Communication Skills:
(9) Be able to communicate clearly using oral and written methods, including posters, presentations, essays, web pages, in order to critique, negotiate, create or communicate understanding.
(9) Be able to use communication as a means for collaborating with and relating to others including staff, other students and research participants.
Personal Effectiveness:
(14) Be able to work effectively in a team; overcoming and discussing problems. and recognising the diversity of contributions different individuals can make to collaborative work.
(15) Be able to transfer knowledge and ideas between different contexts within sport, exercise and health.
Technical/Practical Skills:
(17) Be able to use the test, measurement and analysis tools appropriate to sport, physical activity and exercise, including for example laboratory or field tests.
(18) Be able to design, deliver and analyse the effects of training interventions in sport, physical activity and exercise.
(20) Be able to present data and report research findings according to standard scientific conventions.
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| Keywords | exercise, sport, health, science, cardiovascular, metabolism, training, energy systems, pulmonary, s |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Shaun Phillips
Tel: (0131 6)51 4110
Email: Shaun.Phillips@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Fraser
Tel:
Email: s.fraser@ed.ac.uk |
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