Practical Studies II - Aerobic

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Collective teaching sessions, with tutorial-type individual guidance and field work comprised within specific tasks performed in practical lessons.

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to promote interest and knowledge in an area where continued expansion and a large labor market.

In terms of general objectives, the student must:

1. Mastering a set of content to enable them to understand and frame the scope of activities and objectives of aerobics;

2. Acquire and master the basic motor skills aerobics, as well as music, to develop small choreographies;

3. Acquire theoretical and practical knowledge about the teaching-learning process, teaching methods and intervention techniques in the classroom.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Concepts of Wellness, Fitness and Aerobics;

- Structure of an aerobics lesson;

- Music and Identification of stage and musical block;

- Motor skills as the essence of an aerobics lesson, transitions;

- Variation of intensity, verses, complexity;

- Methods for constructing choreography.

Head Lecturer(s)

Alain Guy Marie Massart

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Attendance, punctuality, dedication: 10.0%
Knowledge verification sheet: 20.0%
Research work: 20.0%
Individual presentation of a choreographic scheme: 50.0%

Bibliography

* ACSM Fitness Book. American College of Sports Medicine – 2ª ed. 1998

* Akiau. P. Aeróbica: fundamentação metodológica, produção coreográfica e desenvolvimento do ensino (1995). Coleção Fitness Brasil

* Monteiro, A. Ginástica Aeróbica, estrutura e metodologia (1996). Centro de Informações Desportivas

* Cerca, L. Metodologia da Ginástica de grupo (1999). Colecção Fitness é Manz

* Sánchez, D. Bases para la ensenanza del aerobic (1999). Editorial Gymnos