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HL30396: Sports performance research seminar

[Page last updated: 19 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Assignment (3000 words) (CW 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: Students completing this unit will have extended their knowledge of a range of contemporary sports performance issues. Students will demonstrate an understanding of recent applied sport research.


Aims: To extend the students knowledge of a range of contemporary sports performance issues.

Skills:
* Comprehensive and scholarly written communication (e.g. essays) F/A
* Effective oral communication (e.g. seminar presentations) F
* Ability to select, summarise and synthesis written information from multiple sources. F/A
* Ability to select and use appropriate ideas to produce a coherent response to a pre-set question. F
* Ability to produce work to agreed specifications and deadlines. F/A
* Ability to work independently, without close supervision of guidance. F/A
* Ability to work effectively as part of a group or team. F
(T: Taught, F: Facilitated, A: Assessed)

Content: Discussion of the development of applied sport research and of contemporary trends within it related to enhancement of sports performance. Applied sport research will be analysed from a range of disciplinary perspectives including (but not limited to) applied physiology, strength and conditioning, sports injury management, applied sports psychology, and sports nutrition.

Course availability:

HL30396 is Compulsory on the following courses:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB12 : BSc(Hons) Sport (Sports Performance) (Work-based learning) (Year 1)

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