Year
2024Credit points
10Campus offering
No unit offerings are currently available for this unit.Prerequisites
EXSC296 Health and Exercise Psychology and either, EXSC204 Exercise Prescription and Delivery or EXSC216 Resistance Training: Science and Application
Incompatible
EXSC335 Advanced Exercise and Sport Psychology
Teaching organisation
150 hours of focused learning.Unit rationale, description and aim
Combining skills from different sub-disciplines within the exercise sciences is important to be an effective and dynamic practitioner, and to be consistent with professional standards including those for Exercise Science. The purpose of this unit is to combine your skills from previous units (e.g., EXSC204, EXSC216, EXSC296) and apply them 1) to an initial assessment with an individual client, and 2) to prescription and delivering of exercise to an individual client and a group. To demonstrate learning outcomes for this unit, you will conduct an initial one-on-one consultation, defend the prescription and delivery of a program you design for an individual client, and prescribe and deliver exercise sessions with a group.
Learning outcomes
To successfully complete this unit you will be able to demonstrate you have achieved the learning outcomes (LO) detailed in the below table.
Each outcome is informed by a number of graduate capabilities (GC) to ensure your work in this, and every unit, is part of a larger goal of graduating from ACU with the attributes of insight, empathy, imagination and impact.
Explore the graduate capabilities.
| Learning Outcome Number | Learning Outcome Description | Relevant Graduate Capabilities |
|---|---|---|
| LO1 | Conduct an initial assessment with an individual client combining relevant knowledge from prerequisite units | GC1, GC2, GC3, GC4, GC6, GC11, GC12 |
| LO2 | Defend the prescription and delivery of an exercise program to an individual client combining relevant knowledge from prerequisite units | GC1, GC2, GC7, GC11 |
| LO3 | Prescribe and deliver a group training exercise session combining relevant knowledge from prerequisite units | GC1, GC2, GC12 |
Content
Topics will include:
- Motivational interviewing
- Instruction and feedback
- Leadership
- Resting measures, body composition, cardiorespiratory, strength measures
- Components and individualisation of exercise programs
- Competent exercise delivery
Learning and teaching strategy and rationale
This unit is designed in a way to encourage your participation and self-directed learning through activity-based online lectures, assessment-focused tutorials, structured collaborations with staff and students, and simulated real-world assessment tasks. These strategies are constructed around higher-levels of applied knowledge and critical reasoning in decision making. These strategies will develop your competencies as a practitioner upon graduation.
Assessment strategy and rationale
In order to best enable you to demonstrate unit learning outcomes and develop graduate attributes, standards-based assessment is utilised, consistent with the University assessment requirements. A range of assessment strategies are used including: 1) an initial assessment with an individual client; 2) defending the prescription and delivery of a program you design for an individual client; and 3) prescribing and delivering a group exercise session.
Overview of assessments
| Brief Description of Kind and Purpose of Assessment Tasks | Weighting | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
Initial consultation Enables students to demonstrate technical and non-technical skills important during an initial consultation | 30% | LO1 |
Individual exercise program defence Enables students to develop and justify the technical and non-technical skills used during the delivery of an exercise program with an individual client | 35% | LO2 |
Group exercise prescription and delivery Enables students to develop and justify the technical and non-technical skills used during the delivery of an exercise program with a group | 35% | LO3 |
Representative texts and references
Coombes, J., & Skinner, T. (2014). ESSA's student manual for health, exercise and sport assessment. Chatswood, NSW: Mosby Elsevier.
Rollnick, S., Miller, W. R., & Butler, C. C. (2008). Motivational interviewing in health care: Helping patients change behavior. New York: Guilford.
American College of Sports Medicine. (2018). ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.