Degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences
Competencies are the set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be acquired by students throughout the degree, aimed at preparing them for professional activities.
The main objectives emanate from disciplinary learning (1), from specific professional capabilities (2), and from instrumental capabilities (3), since, together, they define the competencies necessary to configure academically trained professionals, with professional and instrumental solvency.
- (1) Know and understand the disciplinary and interdisciplinary foundations that lead to mastering the object of study.
- (2) Acquire knowledge and mastery in the design, programming, application and evaluation of specific content.
- (3) Know how to apply information and communication technologies (ICT) for the collection, analysis of data and creation of content, accrediting security in the treatment of information and communication in professional performance.
- Develop social skills in interaction and collaborative work, leadership, and acting according to ethical and professional principles.
Taking as reference the recommendations for the proposal by universities of verification reports of the official degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, established by the Agreement of the Council of Universities of September 17, 2018 (published by Resolution of September 18, 2018 of the SGU, BOE of September 20), the objectives of the degree correspond to the competences that students must acquire in the following seven areas of competence (section 2 of Annex I of the Agreement of the Council of Universities):
- AC_1 Educational intervention.
- AC_2 Prevention, adaptation and improvement of physical-sports performance and health through physical fitness and physical exercise.
- AC_3 Promotion of healthy and independent habits through physical activity and sport.
- AC_4 Intervention through manifestations of human movement.
- AC_5 Planning, evaluation and management-organization of resources and physical activity and sport.
- AC_6 Method and scientific evidence in practice.
- AC_7 Performance, ethics and professional practice in the context of interventions.
Each subject in the curriculum develops learning outcomes by associating them with their field of study. Thus, upon successful completion of this degree, students should be able to:
- Identify the epistemological and didactic foundations of the different fields of study in Physical Activity and Sport, emphasizing the variables that influence the learning process from a comprehensive and critical perspective.
- Establish procedures for gathering information in the various fields of study of Physical Activity and Sport and assess thematic content in a multi-focused manner.
- Construct a coherent argument for practical scenarios related to the different fields of study of Physical Activity and Sport, with more than one alternative, and propose ways to apply one of them.
- Plan, design, implement, and evaluate specific sessions and tasks in the field of Physical Activity and Sport with a didactic approach that includes the corresponding solution, and with a reflective and critical perspective.
- To convey ideas developed in the different fields of study of Physical Activity and Sport to diverse audiences.
- Use integrated information and communication technology (ICT) resources for the selection of information and the transmission of specific knowledge.
- Distinguish the fundamentals of the different fields of study in Physical Activity and Sport and relate them to application situations.
- Demonstrate independence in exploring new content in the various fields of study of Physical Activities and Sports.
- Develop specific tasks in the different fields of study of Physical Activity and Sport with an alternative approach that includes the corresponding solution, and with a reflective and critical vision.
- Demonstrate social and leadership skills in the development of group work under ethical and professional principles
- CB1 – Students have demonstrated knowledge and understanding in an area of study that builds on the foundation of general secondary education and is typically at a level that, while supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of their field of study.
- CB2 – Students should be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills typically demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and problem-solving within their area of study.
- CB3 – Students should have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific, or ethical issues.
- CB4 – Students will be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
- CB5 – That students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
- CG2 – Develop social skills for interrelationship and collaborative work, leadership, and acting under ethical and professional principles.
- CG1 – Develop skills for adapting to new situations, problem-solving, and independent learning, from a reflective and critical attitude.
- CG3 – Know how to apply Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for data collection, analysis, and content creation, demonstrating security in the processing of information and communication in professional practice.
- CE1.2 – Design and apply the methodological process comprising observation, reflection, analysis, diagnosis, execution, technical-scientific evaluation and/or dissemination in different contexts and in all sectors of professional intervention in physical activity and sport.
- CE1.3 – Communicate and interact appropriately and efficiently, in physical and sports activities, in diverse intervention contexts, demonstrating teaching skills in a conscious, natural and continuous manner.
- CE1.1 – Understand, develop and know how to apply the procedures, strategies, activities, resources, techniques and methods involved in the teaching-learning process efficiently, developing the entire 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).
- CE1.4 – Adapt educational intervention to the individual characteristics and needs of the entire population, with emphasis on special populations such as: schoolchildren, the elderly (third age), 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.
- CE2.1 – Know how to guide, design, apply and technically and scientifically evaluate physical exercise and physical fitness at an advanced level, based on scientific evidence, in different areas, contexts and different types of activities for the entire population and with emphasis on special populations, such as: older people (third age), 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.
- CE2.2 – Identify, communicate, and apply anatomical-physiological and biomechanical scientific criteria at an advanced level of skill in the design, development, and technical-scientific evaluation of appropriate procedures, strategies, actions, activities, and guidelines to prevent, minimize, and/or avoid health risks during physical activity and sports among all populations.
- CE2.3 – Design and apply fluently, naturally, consciously, and continuously appropriate physical exercise and fitness, efficiently, systematically, and in a varied manner, based on scientific evidence, to develop processes of adaptation, improvement, or readaptation of certain capacities of each person in relation to human movement and its optimization; in order to solve poorly structured, increasingly complex, and unpredictable problems, with an emphasis on special populations.
- CE2.4 – Articulate and deploy an advanced level of skill in the analysis, design and evaluation of tests for assessing and monitoring physical fitness and physical-sports performance.
- CE2.5 – Know how to re-adapt, retrain and/or re-educate individuals, groups or teams with injuries and pathologies (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), whether or not they compete, through physical-sports activities and physical exercises appropriate to their characteristics and needs.
- CE2.6 – Deploy a level achieved in the planning, implementation, control and evaluation of physical and sports training processes.
- CE3.1 – Analyze, identify, diagnose, promote, guide, and evaluate strategies, actions, and activities that encourage adherence to an active lifestyle and the participation and regular and healthy practice of physical activity, sport, and physical exercise in an appropriate, efficient, and safe manner by citizens, with the aim of improving their overall health, well-being, and quality of life; with an emphasis on special populations such as: the elderly (senior citizens), schoolchildren, people with disabilities, and people with pathologies, health problems, or similar conditions (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), taking into account gender and diversity.
- CE3.2 – Know how to promote, advise, design, apply and technically and scientifically evaluate appropriate and varied physical activity, physical exercise and sports programs, adapted to the individual and group needs, demands and characteristics of the entire population, and with emphasis on older people (third age), the female gender and diversity, schoolchildren, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor).
- CE3.3 – Articulate and deploy programs for the promotion, guidance, coordination, supervision, and technical-scientific evaluation of physical activity, physical exercise, and sport for the entire population, with an emphasis on special populations, with the presence of a professional or carried out independently by the citizen, in different types of spaces 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), according to the possibilities and needs of citizens, with the aim of achieving their autonomy, understanding, and the greatest and most appropriate practice of physical activity and sport.
- CE3.4 – Promote education, dissemination, information and constant guidance to leaders on the benefits, significance, characteristics and positive effects of regular practice of physical activity and sport and physical exercise, the risks and harm of inadequate practice and the elements and criteria that identify its proper 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.
- CE3.5 – Organize the promotion of educational policies, strategies, and programs on public health aspects related to physical activity and sport (for the prevention of risk factors and diseases); as well as cooperate with other stakeholders involved in this area: in any professional physical activity and sport intervention sector.
- CE4.1 – Fluently develop procedures and protocols to solve poorly structured, unpredictable and increasingly complex problems, articulated and deploying a mastery of the elements, methods, processes, activities, resources and techniques that make up basic motor skills, physical activities, sports skills, motor 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: older people (third age), school children, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and / or prescribed by a doctor), paying attention to 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).
- CE4.2 – Fluently develop procedures and protocols to solve poorly structured, 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 appropriate, efficient, systematic, varied and methodologically integrated manner for the entire population and with emphasis on special populations such as: people with disabilities, school children and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and/or prescribed by a doctor), paying attention to gender and diversity and in any sector of professional intervention in physical activity and sport (formal and informal physical sports teaching, physical training, physical exercise for health; management of physical activity and sport.
- CE4.3 – 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
Taking into account the development, characteristics, needs, and context of individuals, different population types, and the spaces where physical activity and sports are practiced; in the various sectors of professional intervention, with an emphasis on special populations. - CE5.1 – Analyze, diagnose, and evaluate the elements, structure, situation, and characteristics of all types of physical activity and sports organizations, as well as the legislative and legal elements related to physical activity and sports.
- CE5.2 – Identify, organize, direct, plan, coordinate, implement and carry out technical-scientific evaluation of the different types of physical and sports activities adapted to the development, characteristics and needs of individuals and the typology of the activity, space and entity, in all types of physical activity and sports services, including sporting events, and in any type of organization, population, context, environment and population and with emphasis on special populations such as: elderly people (third age), school children, people with disabilities and people with pathologies, health problems or similar (diagnosed and / or prescribed by a doctor) and in any sector of professional intervention in physical activity and sports (formal and informal physical and sports teaching; physical and sports training; physical exercise for health; management of physical activity and sports) guaranteeing safety, efficiency and professionalism in the activity carried out in compliance with current regulations.
- CE5.3 – Identify, organize, direct, plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate the professional performance of human resources, with emphasis on the direction, coordination, planning, supervision and technical-scientific evaluation of the activity, performance carried out and the provision of services by physical activity and sport professionals, in all types of services and in any type of organization, 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 carried out in compliance with current regulations.
- CE5.4 – Identify, organize, direct, plan, coordinate, implement and carry out technical-scientific evaluation of organized resources and material resources and sports facilities, including their basic and functional design, as well as adequate selection and use, for each type of activity, in order to achieve safe, efficient and healthy physical and sports activities, adapted to the development, characteristics and needs of individuals and the typology of the activity, space and entity in any type of organization, population, context and in any sector of professional intervention in physical activity and sport and with emphasis on special populations and guaranteeing safety, efficiency and professionalism in the activity carried out in compliance with current regulations.
- CE5.5 – Articulate and deploy the technical and scientific advice, certification, and evaluation of physical and sports activities and resources in all physical activity and sports services, contexts, environments, and sectors of professional intervention in physical activity and sports, as well as in the design and preparation of technical reports in all physical activity and sports services.
- CE6.1 – Know and understand the bases of the methodology of scientific work.
- CE6.2 – Analyze, review, and select the effect and effectiveness of the practice of research methods, techniques, and resources, as well as scientific work methodology, in solving problems that require the use of creative and innovative ideas.
- CE6.3 – Articulate and deploy with rigor and a scientific attitude the justifications on which to develop, support, substantiate and justify in a consistent and professional manner all acts, decisions, processes, procedures, actions, activities, tasks, conclusions, reports and professional performance.
- CE6.4 – Articulate and deploy procedures, processes, protocols, and analyses with rigor and a scientific attitude on matters of a social, legal, economic, scientific, or ethical nature, when necessary and pertinent, in any professional sector of physical activity and sport (formal and informal physical and sports teaching; physical and sports training; physical exercise for health; management of physical activity and sport).
- CE7.1 – Know and apply ethical, deontological, and social justice principles in professional performance and involvement, as well as possess habits of scientific and professional rigor and a consistent attitude of service to citizens in the exercise of their professional practice, with the aim of improving, excelling, quality, and efficiency.
- CE7.2 – Understand, develop, and apply the ethical, deontological, structural, and organizational conditions, professional performance, and regulations governing the professional practice of graduates in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences in any professional physical activity and sports sector (formal and informal physical activity and sports teaching; physical and sports training; physical exercise for health; physical activity and sports management); and be able to develop multidisciplinary work.
- CE7.3 – Understand, know how to explain and disseminate the functions, responsibilities and importance of a good professional Graduate in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, as well as analyze, understand, identify and reflect critically and autonomously on their identity, training and professional performance to achieve the purposes and benefits of physical activity and sport in an appropriate, safe, healthy and efficient manner in all physical-sports services offered and provided and in any professional sector of physical activity and sport.