The Future of Sports

Code:

655

Acronym:

655

Instance: 2020/2021 - 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	57	First Degree in Sports Sciences (2011/2012)	1	-	3	-
			2

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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  the modification of all sporting practices contexts.
  
  

Learning outcomes and competences

To identify academic papers, opinion articles and online reports (among others) on specific topics related to the evolution of sport over the next 20/30 years;

To develop scenarios concerning the future of sports, new athletes, new sport activities, technology's invasion of sport (in terms of equipment and athletes);

To accomplish knowledge about the FUTURE of SPORT and to acquire competence to transmit this knowledge in different educational (academic) and socio-cultural contexts.

Working method

Presencial

Program

- A walk through sport's past and present: building a timeline

- Looking into the future of sports: an uncontrolled anticipation

• The future of team sports
• The future of the most traditional sports
• The universalization of clubs and fans
• The neurocoaching
• The “new athlete” vs the “old athlete”

• Identification of elite athletes in kindergarten
• New injury recovery processe
• The doping of the future
• The obsession with athlete’s pedigree
• The Great Battle: Humans vs. Robots
• Artificial intelligence
• Biomecatronics, exoskeletons and the athlete-machin

• The new multisport fields
• ESports and Fantasy Sports
• Adventure Sports and the “Limit Activities”

- The necessary sport reform for the youngest athletes

- What will come after the future?

Mandatory literature

http://futureof.org/sports-2015/; The Future of Sports , 2015
http://futureof.org/sports-2016/; The Future of Sports , 2016
Epstein David ; The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic., Penguin Books, 2013
Harari, Yuval Noah; Sapiens - História Breve da Humanidade De animais a Deuses, Elsinore, 2015
Harari, Yuval Noah; Harari, YuvalHomo Deus: História Breve do Amanhã , Elsinores, 2017
Sérgio Manuel; Para Um Desporto do Futuro, Edições Afrontamento, Lisboa, 2017

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of the program themes by the teacher, interacting with the students and challenging them to expose and to analyse the topics of their research.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	5,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	15,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	36,00
Frequência das aulas	15,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Fieldwork (interviews with former teachers) will be carried out as well as reports from Seminars about Artificial Intelligence, Biomecatronics, Exoskeletons, Future Doping, among others. Theoretical work will also be requested on different topics of the Program.

The access to positive evaluation requires that students are present in at least 75% of the number of all classes.The average score of all documents produced may not be less than 9.5 values.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average rating of all documents produced

(Tp1+Tp2+.....Tt1+Tt2+......R1+R2+....)/n

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not considered

Classification improvement

Grade improvement during this school year is not allowed.