1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: ED50, IF73
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB340 PHYSICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM
STUDIES IB
Designed for those students who have chosen to do a double
major in physical education, this unit extends the understanding
developed in HMB310 and focuses particularly on teaching
within the classroom setting. Students are introduced to
strategies used to develop higher order thinking skills and are
encouraged to experiment with their use.
Courses: ED50, ED54
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB341 SPORTING & OUTDOOR EDUCATION
ADMINISTRATION
The primary school physical educator and class teacher is responsible
for the organisation of educational programs both
at school and in other education and sporting settings. This
unit assists students in understanding and organising a variety
of sporting tournaments, carnivals and outdoor education.
Courses: ED51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB342 THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING
SKILLS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Designed around micro-teaching and involving student teachers,
children and their working environment in schools, this
unit promotes excellence in teaching, preparation and planning
with an emphasis on active learning and research. Physical
education teacher education students develop a greater
understanding of their prospective working environment.
Courses: ED51, IF73
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB343 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
The focus of this unit is on educational responses to the growing
concern about environmental hazards and their detrimental
effects on human health. Emphasis on the curriculum implications
of knowledge will assist children to make a positive
contribution to health policy.
Courses: ED51, IF73
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB344 HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION
This unit has a dual focus: effective interpersonal communication
by teachers as members of the school community; and
the curriculum and pedagogical process for teaching children.
Care, personal development, work experience and community-based
learning characterise these curriculum programs.
Students are introduced to these processes through lectures,
seminars, workshops and appropriate field study experiences.
Courses: ED51, IF73
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB345 MOTOR DEVELOPMENT &
PERFORMANCE IN DISABLED CHILDREN
Examination of the effects of a wide range of intellectual, sensory,
neurological, orthopaedic and physiological disorders
on the motor development and performance of children. Assessment
techniques for evaluating motor development and
performance are combined with program planning and implementation
with specific cases.
Courses: ED51, IF73
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB361 FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY 2
A project-based unit designed to enable students with a background
in Functional Anatomy to develop greater expertise in
one or a combination of the following areas: electromyography,
orthopaedic biomechanics, kinesiology of sport and work,
comparative functional anatomy, locomotion and posture and
research techniques in functional anatomy.
Courses: HM42, IF73 Prerequisites: HMB274
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ HMB362 BIOMECHANICS 2
Measurement techniques within biomechanics; analysis of
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force systems; photographic, goniometric and electrographic
analysis of movement; an introduction to viscoelasticity and
biological materials; material properties; mass and inertial
characteristics of the human body; applied aspects of biomechanics
undertaken from a research project perspective
Courses: HM42, ME46, IF73 Prerequisites: HMB272
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ HMB363 INDEPENDENT STUDY
To meet the specific interest of students beyond content offered
within existing units; conceptualise, plan and execute a
research study including survey of literature, development of
an action plan, reflection on a practice or situation, and proposal
for future action. The student works at an advanced level
and autonomously under the supervision of a lecturer.
Courses: ED50, HM42, IF73
Prerequisites: Consent of Course Coordinator
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ HMB364 SEMINARS IN HUMAN MOVEMENT
Offered to capitalise on the expertise of resident or visiting
staff, special needs and interests of students, and to create
flexibility in unit offerings. These may include special expertise,
high quality limited period research projects, seminars,
conferences and new initiatives by staff and students. An interest
group will study the area chosen cooperatively.
Courses: ED50, ED51, HM42, IF73
Prerequisites: Consent of Course Coordinator
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ HMB370 PHYSICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM
STUDIES 2
The focus of this unit is divided between issues and directions
of current trends in curriculum development and advanced
strategies used to achieve variety in the presentation
of indoor and outdoor lessons.
Courses: ED50, ED54 Prerequisites: HMB310
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ HMB371 MOTOR CONTROL & LEARNING 2
Major recent theories in motor control and learning; centralist
and peripheralist theories; concepts of coordination and skill;
control and learning of complex movements; interlimb coordination;
interacting schemata; visual-spatial, force and temporal
aspects and sequencing of complex movements. Research
design in motor control and learning.
Courses: ED50, HM42 Prerequisites: HMB271
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ HMB372 BIOPHYSICAL BASES OF MOVEMENT
REHABILITATION
Overview of rehabilitation including medico-legal aspects;
health professionals in the rehabilitation process; exercise
specialist, medical practitioner, physiotherapist, specialist
physician; exercise prescription: overview of responses to injury
implications for exercise programs; modalities of treatment:
exercise and rest; immobilisation, cryotherapy and hydrotherapy;
exercise prescription rehabilitation.
Courses: ED50, HM42, IF73
Prerequisites: HMB271, HMB272, HMB273, HMB274
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ HMB374 PSYCHOLOGY OF REHABILITATION
Factors that predispose to injury and behavioural change; the
psychological process of rehabilitation; teaching specific psychological
rehabilitation and coping strategies; the grief process;
the rehabilitation psychologist’s role in the rehabilitation
team; disabled athletes.
Courses: ED50, HM42, IF73
Prerequisites: HMB275, HMB372
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ HMB375 ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Similarities and differences in the motor development and performance
with intellectual, sensory, neurological, physiological,
orthopaedic, musculo-skeletal and cardio-respiratory conditions;
assessment and programming for individuals with impairments
including program organisation and service deliv-