SP3007 - Dynamics of Sport and Exercise Behaviour 1

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	Sch Public Health,Trop Medicine&Rehabilitation Sc

Coaching effectiveness; motivation, arousal, stress and anxiety and sport and exercise performance; competition and cooperation; leadership; exercise adherence; team dynamics, sport and exercise behavioural skills training; skill acquisition and retention; overtraining, under-recovery and underperformance; distraction strategies and intensity regulation; exercise adoption and adherence; exercise therapy.

Learning Outcomes

• to develop understanding of the impact of behavioural processes on sport and exercise performance;
• to evaluate the utility of behavioural assessment strategies in various sport and exercise contexts.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Prerequisites:

ED1481 or PY1101 or PY1102

Availabilities
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Face to face teaching 23-Feb-2009 to 17-Apr-2009
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Anthony Leicht.
Contact hours:	35 hours lectures 15 hours - Electronic communication
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).
Cairns, Limited, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Face to face teaching 23-Feb-2009 to 17-Apr-2009
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Anthony Leicht.
Contact hours:	35 hours lectures 15 hours - (Electronic Communication)
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).

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