Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2025-26
Fundamentals and initiation to team sports I: Football and Handball. Technical/tactical elements and rules of these two sports.
This course will be given in English at a B2 level CEFR (https://rm.coe.int/1680459f97). Students will be expected to participate in English and do all the assignments, tests and exams in English at this level.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26
Transversal Competences
- CGUA1 : Foreign language skills.
- CGUA2 : Computer and information technology skills.
- CGUA3 : Oral and written communication skills.
General Competences
- CG1.1 : Capacity to identify, list, analyse, synthesise and apply the conceptual content determined by the subjects studied for the Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport degree.
- CG2.1 : Oral and written communication skills in the development of conceptual and procedural content with special attention to the mastery of argumentation and critical reasoning in the subjects of the degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences.
- CG3.1 : Capacity to design, apply and evaluate high-quality processes, programs and projects in the fields of teaching, training and the promotion of health and recreational sport
- CG5.1 : Commitment to the values of equity with respect to gender issues, diversity and democracy in the practice of physical activity and sport.
- CG5.2 : Commitment to ethical values in the development of sporting competition.
Specific Competences
- AC1.1 : Understand, develop and know how to apply the procedures, strategies, activities, resources, techniques and methods involved in the teaching-learning process efficiently, developing the whole course of action in all sectors of professional intervention in physical activity and sport (formal and informal physical-sports teaching; physical and sports training; physical exercise for health; management of physical activity and sport).
- AC1.2 : Design and apply the methodological process comprising observation, reflection, analysis, diagnosis, implementation, technical-scientific evaluation and/or dissemination in different contexts and in all sectors of professional intervention in physical activity and sport.
- AC2.2 : Identify, communicate and apply scientific anatomical-physiological and biomechanical criteria at an advanced level of skills in the design, development and technical-scientific evaluation of procedures, strategies, actions, activities and appropriate guidance; to prevent, minimise and/or avoid a health risk in the practice of physical activity and sport in all types of population.
- AC3.2 : Knowing how to promote, advise, design, apply and technically-scientifically evaluate appropriate and varied physical activity, physical exercise and sport programmes, adapted to the needs, demands and individual and group characteristics of the whole population, with emphasis on the elderly, women and diversity, schoolchildren, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor).
- AC3.3 : Articulate and deploy programmes of promotion, guidance, coordination, supervision and technical-scientific evaluation of physical activity, physical exercise and sport for the entire population, with emphasis on populations of a special nature, with the presence of a professional or carried out autonomously by the citizen, in different types of spaces and in any sector of professional intervention of physical activity and sport (formal and informal physical-sports teaching; physical training and sport; physical exercise for health; physical activity and sport management) according to the possibilities and needs of citizens, with the aim of achieving their autonomy, understanding, and greater and adequate practice of physical activity and sport.
- AC3.4 : Promote education, dissemination, information and constant guidance to individuals and leaders on the benefits, significance, characteristics and positive effects of the regular practice of physical activity and sport and physical exercise, of the risks and harm of inappropriate practice and of the elements and criteria that identify its appropriate execution, as well as information, guidance and advice on the possibilities of appropriate physical activity and sport in their environment in any sector of professional intervention.
- AC4.1 : Fluently develop procedures and protocols to solve unstructured, unpredictable and increasingly complex problems, articulating and deploying a mastery of the elements, methods, processes, activities, resources and techniques that make up the basic motor skills, physical activities, sports skills, play, expressive body and dance activities, and activities in nature in an appropriate, efficient, systematic, varied and methodologically integrated way for the entire population and with emphasis on special populations such as: elderly people (senior citizens), schoolchildren, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), taking into account gender and diversity and in any sector of professional intervention in physical activity and sport (formal and informal physical-sports teaching; physical and sports training; physical exercise for health; management of physical activity and sport).
- AC4.2 : Fluently develop procedures and protocols to solve unstructured, unpredictable and increasingly complex problems, articulating and deploying a mastery of the elements, methods, procedures, activities, resources, techniques and processes of physical fitness and physical exercise in an adequate, efficient, systematic, varied and methodologically integrated way for the whole population and with emphasis on special populations such as: elderly people, schoolchildren, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), taking into account gender and diversity and in any sector of professional intervention in physical activity and sport.
- AC4.3 : Develop and implement the technical-scientific evaluation of the elements, methods, procedures, activities, resources and techniques that make up the manifestations of movement and the processes of physical fitness and physical exercise; taking into account the development, characteristics, needs and context of individuals, the different types of population and the spaces where physical activity and sport are carried out; in the various sectors of professional intervention and with emphasis on special populations.
- AC5.1 : Analyse, diagnose and evaluate the elements, structure, situation and characteristics of all types of physical activity and sport organisations as well as the legislative and legal elements linked to physical activity and sport.
- AC5.2 : Identificar, organitzar, dirigir, planificar, coordinar, implementar, i realitzar avaluació tecnicocientífica dels diversos tipus d'activitats físiques i esportives adaptades al desenvolupament, característiques i necessitats dels individus i la tipologia de l'activitat, espai i entitat, en tots els tipus de serveis d'activitat física i esport, inclosos esdeveniments esportius, i en qualsevol mena d'organització, població, context, entorn i població i amb èmfasi en les poblacions de caràcter especial com són: persones majors (tercera edat), escolars, persones amb discapacitat i persones amb patologies, problemes de salut o assimilats (diagnosticades i/o prescrites per un metge) i en qualsevol sector d'intervenció professional d'activitat física i esport (ensenyament formal i informal fisicoesportiva; entrenament físic i esportiu; exercici físic per a la salut; direcció d'activitat física i esport) garantint la seguretat, eficiència i professionalitat en l'activitat exercida en el compl
- AC7.1 : Knowing and knowing how to apply ethical and deontological principles and social justice in professional performance and involvement, as well as having habits of scientific and professional rigour and a constant attitude of service to citizens in the exercise of their professional practice with the aim of improvement, excellence, quality and efficiency.
- AC7.2 : Know, develop and know how to apply the ethical-deontological, organisational structural, professional performance and regulations of the professional practice of Graduates in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, in any professional sector of physical activity and sport (formal and informal physical and sports education; physical and sports training; physical exercise for health; management of physical activity and sport); as well as being able to develop multidisciplinary work.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Know and analyse the basic principles, structural and regulatory characteristics of football and handball.
- Acquire an elementary technical, tactical and systems of play mastery in football and handball.
- Analyse, design and evaluate teaching-learning and training processes in football and handball.
- Initiate in the design of analysis work and programmes for the promotion and development of football and handball.
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26
1. To understand the rules of football and handball.
2. To acquire experience in practising to improve individual technique.
3. To know the technical-tactical principles of these sports.
4. To provide strategies to students in order to optimally deal with the learning process and the qualitative analysis of individual technique.
5. To practice observation and analysis of technique, in real cases of training and competition.
6. To learn methodologies and exercises for the improvement of technical efficiency, tactics, and strategy.
7. To elaborate elements of study of the quantitative analysis of technique, tactics, and strategy.
8. To provide students the skills needed to optimally handle a training programme.
General
Code:
16614
Lecturer responsible:
Manchado López, Maria Carmen
Credits ECTS:
6,00
Theoretical credits:
0,60
Practical credits:
1,80
Distance-base hours:
3,60
Departments involved
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Dept:
GENERAL DIDACTICS AND SPECIFIC DIDACTICS
Area: PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT
Theoretical credits: 0,6
Practical credits: 1,8
This Dept. is responsible for the course.
This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
Study programmes where this course is taught
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DEGREE IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORTS SCIENCES
Course type: COMPULSORY (Year: 2)