Physical activity in health promotion (5 cr)

Objective

You can define health-promoting physical activity and its different types.
You understand how physical inactivity and activity affect health and know the recommendations of health-promoting physical activity that guide physical education instructors' work.
You can plan health-promoting, goal-oriented physical exercises in a client-centred way.

Content

What is meant by health-promoting and applied physical activity and adapted physical education?
How do physical inactivity and activity affect health?
What are the national recommendations for health-promoting physical activity?
How do the frequency and instruction of health-promoting physical exercise account for the special features and needs of different clients and client groups?
What do motivation levels mean and how are they accounted for in clients' physical exercise instruction?

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional terminology systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. work together with clients, users and target groups.
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices
f. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
g. justify their actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.

Evaluation scale

1-5