COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION AND APPLICATIONS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 1005 EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION AND APPLICATIONS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Coaching Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MUSTAFA KARAHAN

Offered to

Coaching Education

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 students 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 trainer 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 History of Therapeutic exercise
3 Effects of Exercise on organ systems
4 Foundations of Therapeutic exercise Classification and Prescription
5 Exercise testing and Exercise Prescription for Cardiorespiratory Fitness
6 Exercise Prescription for Muscular Strength, Flexibility and Weight Loss
7 Exercise for Spine, Posture and Computer injury
8 Midterm Exam
9 Prevention of Athletic Injury
10 Exercise Prescription for Neurologic Disorders
11 Exercise, Exercise adherence and Technology
12 Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Older Adult, Heart Disease, Peripheral Arterial Disease, Hypertension)
13 Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Pregnancy, Children, Arthritis, Amputee)
14 Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Neuromuscular disease, Repetetive Motion Disorders)
15 Exercise Prescription for Other Special Cases (Diabetes Mellitus, Renal failure, Multiple chronic disease, Postmenopausal women) - Mid-term exam (Delivering the Presentations to the instructor)
16 Final Exam

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 VZ Ara Sınav
2 FN Yarıyılsonu Sınavı
3 BNS BNS VZ * 0.40 + FN * 0.60
4 BUT Bütünleme Notu
5 BBN Bütünleme Sonu Başarı Notu VZ * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


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)

To be announced.

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 3 5 15
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 64

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15
LO.25
LO.355
LO.455
LO.5

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