Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2025-26
The course Physical activity for people with disabilities aims to providing students with tools for considering diversity in their future professional development.
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.
- 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
- CG3.2 : Awareness and recognition of diversity and multiculturalism in the fields of teaching and learning, training and the promotion of health and recreation.
Specific Competences
- AC3.1 : Analyse, identify, diagnose, promote, guide and evaluate strategies, actions and activities that encourage the adherence to an active lifestyle and the participation and regular and healthy practice of physical activity and sport and physical exercise in an adequate, efficient and safe way by citizens in order to improve their overall health, well-being and quality of life, 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.
- 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.
- AC6.1 : Know and understand the bases of the methodology of scientific work.
- AC6.2 : Analyse, review and select the effect and effectiveness of the practice of methods, techniques and resources of research and scientific work methodology, in the resolution of problems that require the use of creative and innovative ideas.
- 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.
- AC6.4 : Articulate and deploy procedures, processes, protocols, own analysis, with rigour and scientific attitude on matters of social, legal, economic, scientific or ethical nature, when necessary and relevant 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).
- 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.
- AC7.3 : Understand, know how to explain and disseminate the functions, responsibilities and importance of a good professional Graduate in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences as well as analyse, understand, identify and reflect critically and autonomously on their identity, training and professional performance to achieve the aims and benefits of physical activity and sport in an appropriate, safe, healthy and efficient way in all physical-sport services offered and provided and in any professional sector of physical activity and sport.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Know the characteristics of different types of functional diversity and their relationship with physical activity and sport.
- Design, promote and develop leisure and recreational activities, encouraging and dynamising groups of all ages and contexts of professional action, considering functional diversity.
- Design, develop and evaluate basic teaching-learning processes of different sports and sports activities, paying attention to their didactic peculiarities, taking into consideration functional diversity.
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26
To know the role of physical activity in the field of disability.
To design, promote and develop recreation and leisure activities by using group dynamics techniques for all ages and professional contexts, considering diversity.
To design, develop and evaluate basic teaching-learning processes in several sports and activities, considering the peculiarities of different disabilities.
General
Code:
16625
Lecturer responsible:
Sanchis Soler, Gema
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: 3)