课程简介
在达勒姆学习运动,锻炼和体育活动时,您将从多学科的角度对运动,锻炼和体育活动的学术和应用方面进行全面的了解。我们的灵活学习计划围绕六个主题领域组织:体育与运动心理学,体育与运动生理学,体育发展与政策,体育社会学,体育活动与健康以及体育,体育与体育活动的研究方法。您在杜伦大学(Durham University)的三年学习中,还将使您能够发展自己的智力能力和个人素质,并获得广泛的实践,专业和就业技能,这些技能可用于一系列未来的职业道路和进一步的研究生学习。选修基础年,选修国外
Develop intellectual, practical and employability skills as you explore new perspectives on social issues in, and the social impact of, sport and physical activity. Do you have a passion for sport and a concern for social issues within sport and exercise Are you keen to play a part in reducing inequalities, promoting social justice, and improving health and wellbeing through sport, exercise and physical activity On the BA Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity course you will explore a wide range of topics from grassroots to high performance sport, as well as other forms of physical activity. You’ll also investigate some of the connections between sport and physical activity with issues such as discrimination and inequalities, the environment, sedentary lifestyles, and obesity. With an emphasis on employability, there are opportunities for you to develop your transferable skill set and take a placement module in a sport or exercise vocational setting, as well as 'open modules' from other departments. You also have the choice of applying to add an industry placement year or a study year abroad to your degree, increasing the course from three years to four. Our approach to learning, teaching and assessment emphasises the application of academic knowledge to real-life examples, practices and professional settings in sport, exercise and physical activity. This enables you to develop your intellectual capacities and personal qualities, while acquiring a broad range of practical, professional and employability skills that can be applied to a range of careers across the sport and exercise industries and beyond. The core and optional modules, developed by an academic team involved in leading-edge research, centre on the key academic disciplines particularly from the social sciences, with an emphasis on sport sociology and sports development. Sociology of sport focuses on sports as social phenomena and explores issues such as gender, ethnicity, social class, media, commercialisation, politics, deviance, violence in the context of sports. Sport development explores the promotion and funding of sports activities for the community by national governing bodies, local authorities, service providers and voluntary groups. The BA course curriculum offers the flexibility to select modules from other sport and exercise sciences, including: psychology, physical activity, nutrition and health. These modules have been carefully designed to enhance your academic study and research skills, and the final-year Independent Research Project is an exciting opportunity to engage in deeper investigation of a sport, exercise or physical activity topic that particularly interests you.Course structureYear 1 modulesCore modules:Academic Skills for Sport and Exercise Sciences develops the essential academic skills required for degree-level study in the sport and exercise sciences, as well as for the workplace. You will develop skills in personal effectiveness, verbal and written communication, collaborative working, critical thinking and problem solving, information and research, numeracy, and digital literacy.Introduction to Sociology of Sport introduces social issues and sociological concepts that form the basis for learning for subsequent years. You will acquire knowledge and understanding of how sports are a social phenomena and how sport can impact upon people’s lives, including issues of inequality, discrimination, commercialisation, and violence in the context of sports.
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