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EXSS3064: Interdisciplinary Athlete Development
2024 unit information
For many sport and exercise science students or existing sport practitioners (e.g., coaches), working with athletes at various developmental stages within respective sporting systems will be a key professional role. As such, this unit provides a multi-disciplinary overview of athlete development systems from a research-informed and applied perspective. Broad interdisciplinary developmental frameworks are considered to help inform athlete development. The unit examines interdisciplinary factors, and common contemporary problems, in athlete development which challenge the effectiveness of current athlete development programmes. To help better prepare aspiring practitioners for the modern workplace, students will be engaged in group-based inter-disciplinary problem-solving to address key problems/issues within athlete development.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Movement Sciences
| Code | EXSS3064 |
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| Academic unit | Movement Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Critically evaluate the concepts of athletic talent, talent identification, talent development, & talent development systems.
- LO2. Justify the need for multi-disciplinary standpoints in optimising athlete development.
- LO3. Identify, summarise, & evaluate athlete developmental pathways in (inter-)national sports contexts.
- LO4. Identify & explain common across or within-sport issues which challenge &/or affect the athlete development process.
- LO5. Demonstrate the ability to synthesise research evidence from across different disciplines to address common problems in athlete development.
- LO6. Demonstrate an ability to identify and propose strategies/solutions to identified problems in the athlete development process.
- LO7. From interdisciplinary standpoints, demonstrate & communicate how proposed strategies/solutions could be effectively implemented into a sport system.
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