SHN5153 - Applied Physical Activity and Health

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module aims to draw together learning from physiology, psychology and nutrition. It will explore how applying this learning to roles within physical activity and nutrition impacts health and wellbeing. You will make links between assessing clients in order to obtain a full needs analysis and producing interventions covering novel training methods, long-term behaviour change principles of training for adults, as well as introduce core concepts from the role of public health nutritionists in the development of initiatives to address health issues such as diet and cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes mellitus. You will do this through producing responses to case studies and problem-based learning.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: Full cohort

Seminars
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: Max 30

Practical Workshops
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: Max 30

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Practical Assessment: The practical assessment will be a gym-based assessment in which the students will have to instruct a gym-based session to a client that they have selected for their case study.

Case Study: The case study will be based around a series of tasks that allow the students to demonstrate their knowledge and application of the theories which are relevant to the field of exercise health and nutrition. Tasks will include a range of activities such as client analysis, reflective writing, analyse and interpretation of data and producing relevant interventions.

Assessment:

001 Practical assessment; 30 minutes; end of semester 2 20%
002 Case study; 4,000 words or equivalent; end of semester 2 80%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Rachael McDonald
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5S2

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