Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at City of Bath College Semester 2 at Weston College |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: This unit introduces the fundamental biomechanical principles involved in the performance of motor skills. It equips students with the relevant knowledge and understanding to apply these principles to a range of sporting movements, thus facilitating the sports coaching process. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this unit students will be able to: * Identify and outline the concepts of kinesiology and basic biomechanical principles for describing and analysing human (sporting) motion; * Examine the forms of human (sporting) motion, including movement in different mediums. Skills: Intellectual * Improve own learning (F) * Apply theory to practice (T, F, A) * Academic writing skills (F, A) * Research skills (F, A) Professional * Reflective practice (F, A) * Communicating professionally (T, F, A) * Working independently and autonomously (F, A) Key Skills * Communication (F, A) * Work logically and systematically (F) * ICT (F,A) Practical * Theory to practice (T, F, A) * Self organisation and management (F) Content: Application of anatomical referencing terminology (position, planes / axes of movement, directional terms, joint movements, limb angles) to real sporting movements; Measurement of forms of motion (linear, angular, general, distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, scalars, vectors) in the analysis of sporting skills; Description and analysis of sporting movement in terms of: muscle actions, levers, equilibrium, stability, balance, friction; Application of Newton's Laws of Motion and gravity to specific sporting movements; How movement (projectiles, aerodynamics, fluids, drag, buoyancy, flotation, Bernoulli principle, Magnus effect) affects performance. |
| Programme availability: |
AS20398 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Learning Partnerships
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