HL22011: Talent identification and development
[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: | CWES 50%, CWOG 50% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Essay (CWES 50%)
- Oral presentation Group (CWOG 50%)
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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: |
- Explain the physiological, psychological, sociological, and genetic factors that influence talent identification strategies
- Identify and critique key performance indicators from a range of sports
- Evaluate different talent identification and development systems and approaches from a global perspective
- Design and justify a talent identification and development strategy for a specific sporting context
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| Synopsis: | Critically examine the key factors contributing to the identification and development of talented athletes across a range of sporting contexts.
You will explore a range of disciplines (e.g., physiology, genetics, psychology, and sociology) and use relevant research to evaluate talent identification and development strategies.
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| Content: | Predictors of talent (e.g. physical, psychological, social, genetic); Performance indicators; Long-term athlete development; Relative age effect and maturation; Global talent identification strategies and policies.
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| Course availability: |
HL22011 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.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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