Subject description for 2024/25
Principles for Motor Skill Acquisition in Sport
IDR1042
Subject description for 2024/25

Principles for Motor Skill Acquisition in Sport

IDR1042
This course provides an in-depth study of motor skills and technical skills in a sport. The course provides good knowledge of how training can be targeted to develop technique and motor skills to improve performance effectively. This course focuses on sports performance and shows the importance of motor skills from a public health perspective. The subject provides a good basis for working as a technical coach in professional sports where competence in technical training analysis of technical motor skills is central to performance development.
The course's content will focus on central training principles for developing technical and motor skills to optimize and develop performance in sports. Central principles mean specificity, load and adaptation, individuality and variability.
The student must be admitted to the Skill and Performance Development program in sport.
The student must be admitted to the study program for Skill and Performance Development in sports.

Knowledge

The candidate

  • Has broad knowledge of central training principles for developing technical skills in sports and motor skills in general.
  • Knows relevant theory related to the training principles for the development of technical performance in sports and training principles for motor control and learning in general.

Skill

The candidate

  • Can apply and understand principles of technical skill development in sports, as well as apply and understand motor control and learning in general.

General competence

The candidate

  • Can exchange professional and scientific views with others in the field
  • Can plan and carry out technique training in sports that develops key technical and motor skills to improve performance.
  • Can analyze technical solutions and take action based on general biomechanics and the principles of specificity, load and adaptation, individuality and variability
In addition to the semester fee and curriculum literature, the student is assumed to have a laptop computer at his disposal.

Compulsory course 

Theoretical and practical course

Online and block-based lecturing at and outside Campus

Mandatory

Part-time study in Meråker (50%)

Organization of teaching:

The subject will consist of 80% digital lectures with assignments and 20% practice and testing linked to these.

The students evaluate the study program annually through course evaluations and study program evaluations. These evaluations are included as part of the university's quality assurance system.

Work requirements:

All work requirements are assessed as approved/not approved. All work requirements must be approved to be awarded an exam grade.

- Submission of 2 written subject texts

Compulsory participation in all teaching is 80%. All mandatory participation is assessed as pass/fail. All compulsory participation must be approved to be awarded an exam grade.

- Practical activities and lab exercises.

Written home exam, two days. Grade expressions: A-F. Counts 100/100 of the grade in the subject

All aids

Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating

Recommended prerequisites: IDR1015, IDR1016, IDR1017, IDR1018, IDR1019 or equivalent year unit in sports
Subject language
Norwegian
Credits
7.5
Study location
Meråker
Teaching semesters
Autumn 2024
Spring 2025
Responsible faculty
The Faculty of Education and Arts
Course coordinator
Employee photo: Per Øyvind Torvik
Associate Professor

Per Øyvind Torvik

per.o.torvik@nord.no