COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION AND HEALTH PROMOTıON

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FZR 4060 EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION AND HEALTH PROMOTıON ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BUSE ÖZCAN KAHRAMAN

Offered to

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Course Objective

Students will develop their skills in prescribing and delivering exercise programs to promote health and fitness for those within the community with specific needs. Students will learn the educative and health promotion role of the physiotherapist in promoting safe participation in exercise in the community for all people across the lifespan. They will explore the evidence available for the effectiveness of exercise programs in the community.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows prescribing exercise programs to promote health and fitness for those within the community with specific needs.
2   Explains delivering exercise classes to promote health and fitness for those within the community with specific needs.
3   Knows educative and health promotion role of the physiotherapist in promoting safe participation in exercise in the community for all people across the lifespan.
4   Explores and interprets the evidence available for the effectiveness of exercise programs in the community.
5   Synthesises the collected informations and performs verbal and visual presentations about his results.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Determination of the contents, syllabus, class presentations
2 Exercise and systemic effects
3 Exercise and cellular effects
4 Exercise preparticipation health screening
5 Exercise and hypertension
6 Exercise and rhematoid arthritis
7 Exercise and osteoatrthitis
8 Exercise and osteoporosis
9 Research week
10 Exercise and sarcopenia
11 Exercise and sarcopenia
12 Exercise and obesity
13 Exercise and low back pain
14 Exercise and diabetes mellitus
15 Overview

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): David P. Swain, Brian C. Leutholtz. Exercise Prescription-2nd Edition : A Case
Study Approach to the ACSM Guidelines, 2007. Human kinetics, Champaign. ISBN:
0736066802, ISBN13:9780736066808.

Supplementary Book(s):
Kamala Shankar. Exercise prescription, 1998. Hanley&Belfus inc/Philadelphia. ISBN:
1560532580, ISBN13: 9781560532583

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Conferance, presentation, problem based learning

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Buse Özcan Kahraman
DEÜ Fizik Tedavi ve Rehabilitasyon Fakültesi
buse.ozcan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 2 5 10
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 101

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.11111
LO.21
LO.31111
LO.41
LO.5111

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