School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Current Issues in Strength and Conditioning
  • Unit Code

    SPS6107
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Guy Gregory HAFF

Description

This unit addresses current and emerging issues within the strength and conditioning profession. Issues related to the use of strength and conditioning methods with various populations will be explored. Specific attention will be paid to the health and wellness effects of resistance training and issues related to cross-cultural and Indigenous populations will be addressed. Furthermore, management issues related to the design and layout of facilities as well as scheduling, policy development, and procedures will be addressed.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SPS5119

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create an industry-specific review of literature based upon the contemporary scientific literature.
  2. Discuss cross-cultural issues including those specific to Indigenous populations.
  3. Propose contemporary issues that are of importance to strength and conditioning professionals.
  4. Explain and evaluate the strategies utilised to develop and maintain a successful strength and conditioning career.

Unit Content

  1. Facility planning and management.
  2. Developing a strength and conditioning career.
  3. COVID-19 and Strength and Conditioning
  4. Androgen use and doping issues in modern sports.
  5. Current trends involving dietary supplement use in sports.
  6. Resistance training for selected clinical populations.
  7. Resistance training and health and wellness.
  8. Tactical Strength and Conditioning - Emerging Profession
  9. Crossfit and Strength and Conditioning
  10. Cross cultural and Indigenous issues in strength and conditioning.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be delivered using technology-enhanced learning. Students will be required to access and use a variety of digital learning materials to prepare for and engage in discussion and activities related to current issues in strength and conditioning. Learning activities and assignments will develop communication and analytical abilities of students as well as providing opportunities to discover, discuss and apply theory in a meaningful context. Students need to be actively engaged in the unit by reading the required readings, listening to recorded lectures and participating in critical discussions related to current issues in strength and conditioning within the LMS.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCritical discussions on current issues 15%
Literature ReviewComprehensive research literature review55%
TestEnd of semester test30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

SPS6107|2|1

School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Current Issues in Strength and Conditioning
  • Unit Code

    SPS6107
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Guy Gregory HAFF

Description

This unit addresses current and emerging issues within the strength and conditioning profession. Issues related to the use of strength and conditioning methods with various populations will be explored. Specific attention will be paid to the health and wellness effects of resistance training and issues related to cross-cultural and Indigenous populations will be addressed. Furthermore, management issues related to the design and layout of facilities as well as scheduling, policy development, and procedures will be addressed.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SPS5119

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create an industry-specific review of literature based upon the contemporary scientific literature.
  2. Discuss cross-cultural issues including those specific to Indigenous populations.
  3. Propose contemporary issues that are of importance to strength and conditioning professionals.
  4. Explain and evaluate the strategies utilised to develop and maintain a successful strength and conditioning career.

Unit Content

  1. Facility planning and management.
  2. Developing a strength and conditioning career.
  3. COVID-19 and Strength and Conditioning
  4. Androgen use and doping issues in modern sports.
  5. Current trends involving dietary supplement use in sports.
  6. Resistance training for selected clinical populations.
  7. Resistance training and health and wellness.
  8. Tactical Strength and Conditioning - Emerging Profession
  9. Crossfit and Strength and Conditioning
  10. Cross cultural and Indigenous issues in strength and conditioning.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be delivered using technology-enhanced learning. Students will be required to access and use a variety of digital learning materials to prepare for and engage in discussion and activities related to current issues in strength and conditioning. Learning activities and assignments will develop communication and analytical abilities of students as well as providing opportunities to discover, discuss and apply theory in a meaningful context. Students need to be actively engaged in the unit by reading the required readings, listening to recorded lectures and participating in critical discussions related to current issues in strength and conditioning within the LMS.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCritical discussions on current issues 15%
Literature ReviewComprehensive research literature review55%
TestEnd of semester test30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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