Module Information
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Practical | 6 x 3 Hour Practicals |
| Practical | 4 x 2 Hour Practicals |
| Lecture | 22 x 1 Hour Lectures |
| Workshop | 1 x 1 Hour Workshop |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Laboratory report. | 50% |
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Students must take elements of assessment equivalent to those that led to failure of the module. | 50% |
| Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours Students must take elements of assessment equivalent to those that led to failure of the module. | 50% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the adjustment, regulation and integration of physiological systems during exercise by comparing humans to the horse.
2. Evaluate sport and exercise activities to determine physiological demand and training need by comparing humans to the horse.
3. Demonstrate awareness of a range of advanced physiological assessment techniques available for humans compared to the horse.
4. Describe the effect of certain diseases upon exercise and athletic potential by comparing humans to the horse
5. Compile a written laboratory report demonstrating the critical analysis and interpretation of data
Brief description
This module will examine the principles of exercise physiology and modern methods for evaluating performance and welfare during exercise by comparing the horse and human athlete. In addition, critical analysis of these techniques for predicting elite performance and informing training regimens will be investigated. Students will have the opportunity to experience techniques for measuring human athletic capacity through practical sessions that will utilise the state of the art human performance laboratories in the Sport and Exercise Science department. Specific issues affecting horse welfare during training and competition will be examined in terms of thermoregulation and common diseases that adversely affect the horse'r health and performance.
Content
The topics covered by the module will include a study of the integration of specific body systems during exercise and after training to produce optimum athletic performance, advances in technology for the investigation of equine exercise, current understanding of thermoregulatory responses during exercise in the heat, training strategies and diseases that limit performance potential.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | The MAOD experiment requires use of biogas analysers and associated software as well as manipulating data using MS Excel. Therefore, the laboratory report will assess these skills and written feedback will be given |
| Communication | |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Detailed, written, feedback will be given on the laboratory report to enable improvement of student’s own learning, but assessment thereafter will not be formally undertaken. |
| Information Technology | Laboratory reports will be word processed and are expected to be completed in a professional and conventional style. Furthermore, the MAOD experiment requires use of biogas analysers and associated software as well as manipulating data using MS Excel. Therefore, the laboratory report will assess these skills and written feedback will be given |
| Personal Development and Career planning | |
| Problem solving | As part of the laboratory report students will need to perform an exercise test and calculate maximal accumulated oxygen debt (MAOD). This will require making certain assumptions which must be overcome and discussed in the report, calculating work rates and using the data to determine total MAOD, indicating anaerobic capacity. Problem solving will be assessed as part of the laboratory report and written feedback will be given. |
| Research skills | As part of this module students will be required to undertake reading in addition to their lectures to gain high exam marks and complete the laboratory report. In addition students will perform a scientific investigation (the MAOD test) in order to complete the coursework and so this skill will be tested within the laboratory report and written feedback will be given |
| Subject Specific Skills | This module will furnish students with a knowledge of comparative human and equine exercise physiology that will equip them for assessing and enhancing the performance of athletes and ensuring their health and welfare at all times. |
| Team work | The MAOD test will require students to work together, to assign specific tasks to individuals and share their findings in order to provide accurate data to write the assessed laboratory report. An inability to perform these skills will affect the laboratory report and so indirectly will be assessed and written feedback given |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5