Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2025-26
The subject individual sports II is mainly aimed at teaching athletics and triathlon. Triathlon is a combination of three sports (swimming, cycling and running) in the same competition and without breaks. The first known organized triathlon arose spontaneously in 1974, in San Diego (United States; Ruiz, 2006). In 2000, in Sydney (Australia), the debut of triathlon in the Olympic Games took place. However, in 1875 Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, had already made public the need for a sport that combined swimming, cycling and athletics (COE, 2004). The reasons that have led us to study the sport of Triathlon are: 1. The fact that it is a recently created sport compared to the majority of sports studied in scientific and training research. 2. Perfect identification with the hallmarks of the UA: It identifies with the geographical environment and Mediterranean climatic conditions. The sustainable development of physical and sports activities in nature and the innovation and development of new sports. 3. Because in the national and international context, triathlon is positioned as a growing sport whose development allows future graduates in sports sciences a future job. As for athletics, it is one of the sports that has traditionally been studied in all A.F and sports science degrees since the beginning of the degree. The first historical reference to athletics dates back to the year 776 BC. C. in Greece, with a list of the winning athletes of a competition. Athletics, without a doubt, has been one of the reference sports in the modern Olympic Games since its first edition in 1896. Athletics is made up of a large number of disciplines and modalities that are classified as races, jumping and throwing, Therefore, the knowledge acquired in the subject by the students will be very useful to future graduates in A.F and sports sciences, due to the great motor loss worked in sports. Both because of the tradition that encompasses athletics and because of the knowledge at a theoretical-practical level that it provides to students, as well as its applicability to both initiation sports and high performance, the study of this subject in the degree of sciences of the A.f and sport.
Course competencies (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.
- CG1.2 : Ability to manage information and knowledge in new and complex situations, problem solving and decision making for the development of instrumental and procedural contents of the subjects of the degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences.
- 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
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.
- AC1.4 : Adapt the educational intervention to the individual characteristics and needs of the whole population and with emphasis on special populations such as: schoolchildren, the elderly, people with reduced mobility and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), taking into account gender and diversity.
- 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.
- AC3.4 : 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.
- AC5.5 : Articulate and deploy advice, certification, and technical-scientific evaluation of physical activity and sport activities and resources in all physical activity and sport services, contexts, environments and sectors of professional intervention in physical activity and sport as well as in the design and drafting of technical reports in all physical activity and sport services.
- AC6.3 : Articulate and deploy with rigour and scientific attitude the justifications on which to elaborate, support, substantiate and justify in a constant and professional manner all acts, decisions, processes, procedures, actions, activities, tasks, conclusions, reports and professional performance.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Know and analyse the basic principles of athletics and triathlon sports, as well as the structure and legal organisation of these sports.
- Be able to demonstrate basic technical elements of athletics and triathlon sports, as well as evaluate the execution of basic technical models in athletics and triathlon sports.
- Design teaching-learning progressions for the acquisition of the basic technical elements of athletics and triathlon sports, adapting to the particular characteristics of the population with whom he/she is working.
- To advise the population in relation to the technical, tactical and regulatory patterns of athletics and triathlon by means of an adequate scientific-technical foundation.
- To know and transmit the technical, tactical and regulatory elements in athletics and swimming, as well as the appropriate considerations that guarantee the safe practice of these sports.
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26
The objectives of the subject are the following:
- Understand basic performance factors, as well as the history of athletics and triathlon.
- Know the basic technical-tactical principles of jumping, throwing and running in athletics.
- Know the basic technical-tactical principles of triathlon and its modalities (swimming, cycling and running).
- Know the basic regulations of triathlon and athletics.
- Experience triathlon and athletics as an athlete and coach. Acquire experiences in carrying out practices to improve the technique of the three segments and transitions, as well as in the different modalities of throwing, jumping and running in athletics.
- Be able to detect basic errors in technical execution in the modalities of open water swimming, cycling and running of the traitlon, as well as in the modalities of jumping, throwing and running of athletics that will be taught in the subject.
- Design athletics and triathlon sessions aimed mainly at sports initiation using motivating methodologies that consciously involve the students.
General
Code:
16619
Lecturer responsible:
Sellés Pérez, Sergio
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)