Course title
スポーツ健康科学理論   [Sports & Health Sciences]
Course category general education courses  Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 1  Semester Spring 
Course type Spring  Course code 01SP0401
Instructor(s)
下田 政博, 福本 寛之, 田中 秀幸, 田中 幸夫, 岩見 雅人   [SHIMODA Masahiro, FUKUMOTO Hiroyuki, TANAKA Hideyuki, TANAKA Yukio, IWAMI Masato]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
In order to go richly healthy to live the college life and future of life, sport and exercise has important significance and value.
In this lecture, five professors makes a lecture on such 1) Sport culture and modern society 2) Physical and mental health and life style 3) Training and conditioning 4) Sport skills and exercise of learning and control.
Expected Learning
The learning experiences and activities in the course are designed to enable to students to:
1. Define and describe the multiple roles of sports culture in modern life: playing, watching and supporting
2. Understand the relationship between physical and mental health problems and lifestyle scientifically and to be able to plan the health management of their own lifestyle
3. Learn the scientific methodology of exercise prescription and physical fitness training, and that it will be able to take advantage of its own practice
4. Understand the learning process of sports skills and motor learning, and that it will be able to get the level up their own skills and motor learning.
Course schedule
Week 1 Orientaion. Let's be healthy in university life at TUAT. (Tanaka, Y.)
Week 2 Let's be healthy in university life at TUAT. (Tanaka, Y.)
Week 3 Sports skills from the viewpoint of neuroscience. (Tanaka, H.)
Week 4 Sports skills from the viewpoint of perceptual and motor control theory. (Tanaka, H.)
Week 5 Support system for athletes. How to improve Physical fitness and ability. (Iwami, M.)
Week 6 Basic knowledge about conditioning science. Don't fall for pseudoscience.(Iwami, M.)
Week 7 Basic knowledge about sports medicine. Prevention and treatment for Exercise & Sports injuries. (Iwami, M.)
Week 8 Midterm examination
Week 9 Physical activity and brain 1: Brain controls voluntary movements (Fukumoto, H.)
Week 10 Physical activity and brain 2: Effects of physical activity on brain functions (Fukumoto, H.)
Week 11 Applications of brain sciences about voluntary movements in modern society (Fukumoto, H.)
Week 12 Views of health promotion and health management in super-aged society. (Shimoda, M.)
Week 13 Lifestyle habits and health 1 : Locomotive syndrome and physical activities.(Shimoda, M.)
Week 14 Lifestyle habits and health 2 : Metabolic syndrome and meal balance. (Shimoda, M.)
Week 15 Final examination
Prerequisites
Attend the class specified by the department of the relevant major.
Required Text(s) and Materials
None. Printed materials will be handed out in each week.
References
The professors will introduce reference books relevant to their topics in class.
Assessment/Grading
The students must attend the lecture more than 11 times. Considering the results of two exams and assignments that each professor will require, a total of 400 points is evaluated as follows.
S: >=90%; A: 80-89%; B: 70-79%, C: 60-69%; D: <60%
Message from instructor(s)
You must learn how to promote your health and then try to modify your current lifestyle in university to reduce your risk of physical and/or mental diseases in the future.
Course keywords
Health-related physical fitness, training, self-management, adaptation, homeostasis, modern definition of sport
Office hours
From 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is advisable to make an appointment with the professors via e-mail.
Remarks 1
Assignments will be handed out in class.
Remarks 2
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
4/9/2018 11:46:49 AM