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Study Plan
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Bachelor's degree in Sport and Exercise Science - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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Biochemistry of exercise
Principles of sport management
Introduction to chinesiology and sport
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2025/2026
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Sport and exercise psychology
Training Methodology
3° Year It will be activated in the A.Y. 2026/2027
| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Preventive and adapted physical activity
Pharmacology and cardiology applied to physical activity
Diseases of the Locomotor Apparatus
Techniques and Teaching Methods for Individual and Team Sports
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Biochemistry of exercise
Principles of sport management
Introduction to chinesiology and sport
| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Sport and exercise psychology
Training Methodology
| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Preventive and adapted physical activity
Pharmacology and cardiology applied to physical activity
Diseases of the Locomotor Apparatus
Techniques and Teaching Methods for Individual and Team Sports
| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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1 module among the following (Physical education and games and Kinesiology 2nd year; Physical activity and development and Sport physiology 3rd year)1 module among the following (Sports Journalism and Teaching of swimming 2nd year; Theory and pedagogy of fitness and Advanced Sports Nutrition 3rd year)Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Introduction to movement analysis and motor control (2025/2026)
Teaching code
4S000968
Academic staff
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-EDF/01 - PHYSICAL TRAINING SCIENCES AND METHODOLOGY
Period
1° semestre dal Sep 29, 2025 al Jan 16, 2026.
Location
VERONA
Courses Single
Authorized with reserve
Learning objectives
By attending the class the student will learn the main approaches developed (both holistic and deterministic) for describing and predicting the human movement. The students will receive basic information about the control and learning of human movement. In particular, the control of movement, the perception action coupling and the related emergent features defined from movement behavior. At the end of the class the student is supposed to know the contents presented during class by showing a critical and individual capacity of judgment and evaluation of cases ranged from the sport environment to the movements performed in the everyday life.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Students must have basic knowledge of human anatomy, basic knowledge of physics and geometry, be able to read graphs and be able to recognize axes and planes.
Program
- Definitions and historical notes on motor control
- Movement analysis techniques and measures in motor control - Skills, capacity and coordination
- Degrees of freedom, motor variability, simplification strategies - Concept of motor synergy
- Movement planning and preparation
- Neural bases of movement planning and control
- Feedback and feedforward control mechanisms
- Multi-segmental control coordination
- Speed-accuracy trade-off
- Postural control
- Locomotion and central pattern generator
- Eye-hand coordination
- Definition and concepts of motor learning
- Research methods in motor learning
- Theories and processes of learning, transfer and retention
- Neurophysiological mechanisms related to motor learning
- Phases of learning
- Instructions and demonstrations: attentional focus, observational learning and Constraints-Led Approach
- Planning effective training: variability of practice
- Planning effective training: distribution and simplification
- Augmented feedback
Bibliography
Didactic methods
Lessons held in frontal mode in the classroom. During the lesson there will be breaks to allow students to ask questions and have clarifications on specific topics covered.
Learning assessment procedures
The exam will be in written form. The test will consist of 45 multiple choice questions, each with four answer options, of which only one is correct. The time available for the exam will be 50 minutes.
Evaluation criteria
The grade for the written test will be calculated based on the number of correct answers (45 questions in total) without deducting points for incorrect or unanswered questions.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final grade will be determined by the number of correct answers (R), according to the following formula: [R × (30/45)] + 1. For example, with 25 correct answers you will obtain a grade of 18/30, while with 45 correct answers you will obtain the maximum score of 30/30 with honors.
Academic Honesty Policy:
Given the professional nature of our program academic dishonesty is not tolerated in this course. Any substantiated instances of academic dishonest will result in a zero for the assignments and consequently a final course grade of 0/30.
Exam language
Italiano
