Competencies and objectives

Provisional information. Pending approval by the Department Council.

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

Every scientific, educational or business activity, or any other similar activity, must have an organisation or a structured work programme that will be performed. Consequently, a schedule of activities or planning of all aspects that will take place in the subject should be developed in order to achieve the set objectives. This plannification also serves to make some adjustments or changes according to the problems observed at a given time. The sports training field is not an exception, for here it is also necessary to carry out structuring processes of the programs to be developed that fit the conditions in each moment show the athlete, taking into account the materials and necessary infrastructures to do so. In order that the adaptations mechanisms occur optimally and thus be able to draw the straight road to the optimization of the personal capabilities, the sequence in the loads application and control of them is crucial.

 

 

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

  • AC1.3 : Communicate and interact appropriately and efficiently, in physical activity and sport, in diverse intervention contexts, demonstrating teaching skills in a conscious, natural and continuous way.
  • AC2.1 : Knowing how to guide, design, apply and technico-scientifically assess physical exercise and physical condition at an advanced level, based on scientific evidence, in different areas, contexts and types of activities for the whole population and with emphasis on special populations such as: the elderly, 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.
  • 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.
  • AC2.3 : Design and apply with fluency, naturalness, consciously and continuously adequate, efficient, systematic, varied physical exercise and physical condition, based on scientific evidence, for the development of the processes of adaptation and improvement or readaptation of certain capacities of each person in relation to human movement and its optimisation; in order to be able to solve unstructured, increasingly complex and unpredictable problems and with emphasis on special populations.
  • AC2.4 : Articulate and display an advanced level of skill in the analysis, design and evaluation of tests for the assessment and control of physical fitness and physical-sporting performance.
  • AC2.6 : Develop an advanced level in the planning, application, control and evaluation of physical and sports training processes.
  • 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
  • AC5.3 : Identify, organise, direct, plan, coordinate, implement and assess the professional performance of human resources, with emphasis on the management, coordination, planning, supervision and technical-scientific assessment of the activity, performance and provision of services by physical activity and sport professionals, in all types of services and in any type of organisation, context, environment and with emphasis on special populations and in any sector of professional intervention in physical activity and sport, guaranteeing safety, efficiency and professionalism in the activity performed in compliance with the regulations in force.
  • AC5.4 : Identify, organise, direct, plan, coordinate, implement and carry out technical-scientific evaluation of organisational resources and material resources and sport facilities, including their basic and functional design as well as adequate selection and use, for each type of activity, with the aim of achieving safe, efficient and healthy physical and sport activities, adapted to the development, characteristics and needs of individuals and the typology of the activity, space and entity in any type of organisation, population, context and in any sector of professional intervention in physical activity and sport, with emphasis on special populations and guaranteeing safety, efficiency and professionalism in the activity carried out in compliance with the regulations in force.
  • 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.
  • AC6.1 : 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.
  • AC6.4 : 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).

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

  • Apply physiological, biomechanical, behavioural and social principles in the training and control of endurance, strength, speed and range of motion.
  • Use and apply the concepts and objectives of training planning.
  • Know and apply the basic procedures of sports performance evaluation.
  • Know and apply the methods of training load quantification.
  • Be able to prescribe sports training for different types of population with a high degree of rigour through scientific publications in the field of sports training planning and structuring.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

- Know and understand the basics of sports planning
- Know the historical evolution and the contemporary periodization models
- Know, designing and implementing training plans in the short, medium and long term taking into account the characteristics of the population to which they are directed
- Know and understand the training and planning differences of young and adults athletes
- Know, design and implement training plans according to the menstrual cycle
- Know, understand and apply different training load control systems.
- Know, understand and apply different sports performance evaluation depending on the needs of each sport modality and on the athlete level.

 

 

General

Code: 16626
Lecturer responsible:
Manchado López, María Carmen
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 0,60
Practical credits: 1,80
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • 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.

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