HL22010: Contemporary issues and applied professional practice
[Page last updated: 19 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 15 [equivalent to 30 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 300 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWOI 40%, CWPF 60% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Oral presentation Individual (CWOI 40%)
- Portfolio (CWPF 60%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Identify key contemporary issues within sports performance
- Analyse key theories that underpin ethical practice in relation to these contemporary issues
- Analyse individual strengths and weaknesses through the implementation of a skills audit
- Discriminate between key skills that require development within the context of continuing professional development
- Evaluate competence in a range of skills appropriate to a specific employment sector.
- Evaluate the process of career-long professional development through theoretical and contemporary perspectives
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| Synopsis: | Explore contemporary issues within sport and develop your understanding of key issues relating to professional practice in high performance sport.
You will undertake a personal skills audit and will engage in opportunities for the development of, and reflection on, transferable graduate skills.
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| Content: | Contemporary issues (e.g., race, gender, commercialisation and commodification, anti-doping); Continued professional development; Skills audit; Career planning.
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| Course availability: |
HL22010 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department for Health
- UHHL-AFF30 : FdSc(Hons) Sport (Sports Performance) (Year 2)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
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