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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2007-2008 (archived)

Module SPRT1301: THE BODY IN ACTION

Department: Applied Social Sciences (Sport)

SPRT1301: THE BODY IN ACTION

Type Tied Level 1 Credits 20 Availability Available in 2007/08 Module Cap None. Location Durham
Tied to C601

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • None.

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) Sport and Exercise Physiology) and Level 3 (Exercise Programmes for Health and Performance).

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

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • Understand and use formal anatomical vocabulary.
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of the structural and functional anatomy of the major bones, joints, ligaments and muscular groups.
Subject-specific Skills:
  • Relate anatomical principles to movement in the human body.
Key Skills:

    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

    Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
    Lectures 15 typically 1 per week 1 hour 15
    Practicals 7 1 every two weeks 2 hours 14
    Preparation and Reading 171
    Total 200

    Summative Assessment

    Component: Test Component Weighting: 40%
    Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
    mid term unseen test 100%
    Component: Examination Component Weighting: 60%
    Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
    examination 2 hours 100%

    Formative Assessment:

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


    Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University