Module SPRT1301: THE BODY IN ACTION

Department: Applied Social Sciences (Sport)

SPRT1301: THE BODY IN ACTION

Tied To

• C601: Sport

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• Provide students with relevant knowledge and understanding of musculo-skeletal anatomy.
• This knowledge and understanding gained within this module should be complementary to Developing Skill in Sport (Level 1) as well as providing a useful basis for subsequent modules at Level 2 (Sport Injuries and Rehabilitation, Sport and Exercise Physiology and Coaching in Sport) and Level 3 (Exercise Programmes for Health and Fitness).

Content

• The curriculum is delivered as a rolling programme of lectures and practical classes which together are designed to complement each other. These are further supported by a 'worksheet/tutorial' booklet which through its regular completion allows students to identify personal progress.
• The indicative content of the module can be summarised as follows: The development of a formal anatomical vocabulary; Classification of joints, skeletal muscle tissue and other connective tissue; Structural and functional anatomy of the major bones, joints, ligaments; Analysis of human movement and the different muscular groups which facilitate that movement.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand and use formal anatomical vocabulary.
• Demonstrate a knowledge of the structural and functional anatomy of the major bones, joints, ligaments and muscular groups.

• Relate anatomical principles to movement in the human body.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Teaching and learning will be centred round lectures, practicals and directed study workbooks. The different modes of study will allow opportunities for students to acquire, rehearse and reflect upon all main curriculum areas.
• It is intended that the lecture component of this strategy will deliver much of the required knowledge base. Rehearsal of this material in the form of staff led practicals and student led directed study workbooks will provide an infrastructure which will support students in terms of developing their understanding of the subject area.
• Assessment will take the form of an end of module examination, an unseen summative mid term test and a formative multiple choice paper.
• The end of module examination will address learning outcomes #1, #2, #3.
• The unseen summative test will specifically target the learning outcomes #2.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Compulsory (diagnostic review of material delivered in first term).