Overview
This unit is designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of physiological mechanisms responsible for the body's responses to exercise in physical activity, sport and the workplace. You will be introduced to standard physiological laboratory and field measures to identify body adaptations to exercise.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites For CG85 Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Sciences students: BMSC11001 Human Body Systems 1 AND BMSC11002 Human Body Systems 2 AND ESSC11001 Physical Activity, Fitness and Health For CG93 Bachelor of Medical Science students: BMSC11001 Human Body Systems 1 AND BMSC11002 Human Body Systems 2 For CK22 Bachelor of Physiotherapy students: ALLH11005 Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals 1 AND ALLH11004 Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals 2 For CC13 Bachelor of Education (Secondary) students: ESSC11001 Physical Activity, Fitness and Health AND ESSC11003 Skill Acquisition and Movement
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Course evaluation responses.
For physiotherapy students, possibly ISL delivery of lectures to Bundaberg and semi-weekly delivery of laboratory sessions in Rockhampton.
The feasibility and logistics of delivering lectures via ISL to Bundaberg and semi-weekly labs in Rockhampton for physiotherapy students will be explored.
Delivery of lectures to Bundaberg via ISL were not able to be implemented when pursued. Further, coordination and running of multiple on-campus lab sessions each week were not feasible.
Feedback from Course evaluation responses.
The volume of content is difficult to grasp in some topics.
Course lectures will be reviewed, particularly the "heavy" course topics, with unneeded detail eliminated.
Some lectures were more streamlined where possible to ensure necessary concepts were better grasped by students.
Feedback from Course evaluation responses.
Residential school was close to the end of term, leaving less time to complete associated assessment.
The feasibility and logistics of alternative residential school dates earlier in term will be examined.
The residential schools were conducted earlier in term, which seemed to allow sufficient time for students completing assessment tasks and preparing for the exam.
- Understand the physiological mechanisms responsible for the body's responses to exercise in physical activity, sport and the workplace.
- Interpret measurement data and review current literature in the area of exercise physiology.
- Plan and perform laboratory and field physiological measurements safely and ethically, and examine responses during a variety of exercise situations.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Online Test - 20% | |||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 40% | |||
| 3 - Examination - 40% | |||
| 4 - On-campus Activity - 0% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||
| 5 - Team Work | |||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Test - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 40% | ||||||||||
| 4 - On-campus Activity - 0% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Exercise physiology: nutrition, energy and human performance
Edition: 8 (2015)
Authors: McArdle, WD, Katch, FL, Katch, VL
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
New York New York , NY , USA
ISBN: 9781451191554
Binding: Hardcover
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.scanlan@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to exercise and sport physiology
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Exercise metabolism:
Energy transfer during exercise
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Exercise metabolism:
Energy expenditure during exercise
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Responses to exercise:
Pulmonary system
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Responses to exercise:
Cardiovascular system
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Online test 1 will be made available from 9:00 am on Monday, April 10 until 5:00 pm on Tuesday, April 18
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Responses to exercise:
Endocrine system
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Exercise performance:
Training principles and exercise prescription
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Exercise performance:
Fatigue and ergogenic aids
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Exercise performance:
Altered environments
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Aging and disease prevention:
Clinical exercise physiology
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Exam preparation:
Term review and practice questions
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Online test 2 will be made available from 9:00 am on Monday, May 22 until 5:00 pm on Tuesday, May 30
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Exam preparation:
No lecture
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Exam to be scheduled during exam block
Practical Assessment Due: Review/Exam Week Monday (5 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
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1 Online Test
You will be required to complete two online tests across term. Each test will contain multiple-choice questions based on unit content from lectures and course readings. Test 1 will cover material from lectures 1-5, while Test 2 will cover material from lectures 6-10.
Online test 1 will be made available from 9:00 am on Monday, April 10 AEST until 5:00 pm on Tuesday, April 18 AEST. Online test 2 will be made available from 9:00 am on Monday, May 22 AEST until 5:00 pm on Tuesday, May 30 AEST.
Test results will be made available in Moodle upon completion with a full test review available in Moodle upon test closure.
A selection of 40 randomly-generated questions equally distributed across lectures (8 questions from each lecture) will be provided in each test. Each test will be graded using the overall test score (out of 40 marks).
- Understand the physiological mechanisms responsible for the body's responses to exercise in physical activity, sport and the workplace.
- Interpret measurement data and review current literature in the area of exercise physiology.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
2 Practical Assessment
Attendance at laboratory sessions will involve completion of different learning components, including equipment use, skill demonstration, data acquisition, interpretation of results, and theoretical reasoning. You will be required to complete a laboratory workbook for all laboratory sessions to demonstrate knowledge and skills related to each laboratory component.
Review/Exam Week Monday (5 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
The results for the laboratory workbook will be made available within 2 weeks of the due date.
Grades for this assessment will be based on marks attained in each of the laboratory sessions. Specifically, the following laboratory sessions will be graded:
1. Screening for health and anthropometrical measurement
2. Determining exercise intensity, efficiency, and substrate utilisation using Douglas Bags
3. Examining physiological responses during exercise using spirometry and electrocardiography
4. Testing for anaerobic threshold, maximum oxygen uptake, and high-intensity exercise capacity
5. Assessing thermal and hydration responses during exercise
- Understand the physiological mechanisms responsible for the body's responses to exercise in physical activity, sport and the workplace.
- Interpret measurement data and review current literature in the area of exercise physiology.
- Plan and perform laboratory and field physiological measurements safely and ethically, and examine responses during a variety of exercise situations.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
3 On-campus Activity
You must attend and participate in all laboratory sessions in this unit. On-campus laboratory sessions and residential schools will be held during specified weeks across term to deliver laboratory content.
Attendance at laboratory sessions will be completed across specified weeks of term.
Inadequate attendance and/or participation will be made available during and following each laboratory session.
Attendance at all laboratory sessions with sufficient participation will result in a passing grade for this assessment.
- Interpret measurement data and review current literature in the area of exercise physiology.
- Plan and perform laboratory and field physiological measurements safely and ethically, and examine responses during a variety of exercise situations.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
Examination
Dictionary - non-electronic, concise, direct translation only (dictionary must not contain any notes or comments).
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
