Emerging Issues in Sport Sciences

Code:

647

Acronym:

647

Instance: 2017/2018 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Sports Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCD	54	First Degree in Sports Sciences (2011/2012)	1	-	3	-
			2

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Clarify the main theoretical-scientific questions of the "sports sciences".

1. Understand the role of the scientific approach to sport and PE.

2. Understand what is the body of knowledge of a scientific field.

3. Understand what the appropriate research methodology.

4. Identify problems of application of research results in practice.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students are able to identify the main scientific criteria applied to the sports sciences and detect difficulties in their development.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Object of the sport science (s).
2. Object constitution: material field and formal field.
3. Formal field of science (s) of sport.
4. Sporto scientific problems
5. Theoretical orientations ofSport science (s): interdisciplinary approach.

Mandatory literature

H. Haag, O. Grupe and A. Kirsh; Introduction, in Sport Science in Germany: an interdisciplinary anthology, 1992
K. Willimczik; Interdisciplinary Sporto Science: a Science in search of its identity, 1992
Haag, H.; Research methodology for sport and exercise science : a comprehensive introdution for study and research, ed. Herbert Haag, 2004
Vários; European Journal of sport science vol.17, No.1, 2016

Teaching methods and learning activities

T-P classes

Individual and group work

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	50,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Frequency / participation in class assignments - 50%
Classification of written  final test - 50%