Aims & Learning Objectives:
To allow students to actively engage in current debates within Sport and Exercise Science in any area that has the potential to affect health and quality of life throughout an individual's lifetime.
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to synthesise current opinion on various complex unresolved arguments in Sport and Exercise Science that have the potential to affect health and quality of life at any stage of an individual's lifetime.
Demonstrate the ability to use an evidence-based approach to draw together various lines of evidence that both support and refute alternate perspectives of current controversies.
Content:
Lectures provide contextual information and introduce the different problems/debates covered during the unit. Contextual information includes; epidemiology of physical activity and chronic diseases, changing population demographics and the 'greying' society, economic implications of physical inactivity/changing population demographics, and principles and practice of behaviour modification strategies. The problem-based learning sessions address topical controversies in Sport and Exercise Science that are relevant to the aims of the unit, including controversies that are partially resolved and others that are far from resolution.
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