Course Title: Physical Activity, Health and Disease across the Lifespan

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Physical Activity, Health and Disease across the Lifespan

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

OHTH2158

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

160H Medical Sciences

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2013,
Sem 1 2014,
Sem 1 2015,
Sem 1 2016

OHTH2158

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2018,
Sem 1 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 1 2021,
Sem 1 2022

Course Coordinator: Prof Stephen Bird

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7257

Course Coordinator Email: stephen.bird@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 202.04.019


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses

Successful completion of:

OR

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.

For information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.


Course Description

This course focuses on factors that affect lifespan health and physical fitness. It explores the impact of factors such as growth, physical maturation, and aging on activities of daily living and exercise capacity. It also explores how exercise and nutrition can minimise the impact of disease, illness and ageing on health and physical fitness.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for BP296 Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise and Sport Science):

  • Communicate knowledge through a variety of modalities (PLO 4).
  • Identification of the exercise needs of a person/team and the design of appropriate exercise interventions (PLO 6).
  • Apply the knowledge and skills to the context of performance sports and/or health, disease and ageing (PLO 7).
  • Knowledge and ability to work within the legal, ethical, practice and safety codes of the profession (PLO 8).
  • The identification and solving of problems relating to exercise and sporting contexts (PLO 9).

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for BP041 Bachelor of Applied Science (Health and Physical Education):

  • Develop content knowledge and how to teach it (PLO 2).


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: 

  1. Analyse relationships between physical activity and health
  2. Apply knowledge of appropriate screening and testing and how physical activity impacts upon the risk factors for a range of chronic diseases and health conditions
  3. Apply knowledge, evidence and techniques to the development and delivery of community-based prevention programs at the primary health level
  4. Predict how ageing affects physical capacity and exercise
  5. Examine the role exercise and nutrition in maintaining health and physical fitness across the lifespan


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

This course contains hurdle requirements. All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Formative Quizzes
Weighting 15%
This assessment supports CLO 1, 2, 4 & 5

Assessment Task 2: Literature Review
Weighting 25%
This assessment supports CLO 1, 3 & 5

Assessment Task 3: Fact Sheet Assignment
Weighting 25%
This assessment supports CLO 1, 3 4 & 5

Assessment Task 4: Recorded PowerPoint Presentation
Weighting 35%
This assessment supports CLO 1, 2, 3 & 5

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.