Course Title: Motor Control

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Motor Control

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

OHTH2153

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

160H Medical Sciences

Face-to-Face

 Sem 2 2012,
Sem 1 2014,
Sem 1 2015

OHTH2153

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

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

Course Coordinator: Ashleigh Moreland

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7545

Course Coordinator Email: ash.moreland@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 202.04.071


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses

Successful completion of:

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 will present content relating to motor control and neuroscience theories and principles, and will examine the role of the neuromuscular system in both the sensory and motor aspects of motor control. The purpose is to provide you with evidence to understand how motor skills are performed and learned in relation to everyday tasks and sport skills with a particular focus on disease populations such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s, as well as those with brain trauma such as stroke. The course content will develop understanding of principles for learning and re-learning of motor skills.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the development of the following BP296 Exercise and Sport Science Program Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply knowledge of the underlying principles and concepts of Exercise and Sport Science. Including the core areas of: Human Physiology, Anatomy, Functional Anatomy, Exercise Physiology, Biomechanics, Motor Learning and Control, Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, and Psychology (PLO 1)
  • Utilise core instrumentation and equipment for the monitoring and assessment of exercise clients (PLO 2)
  • Review, analyse and interpret information, and independently generate conclusions (PLO 3)
  • Contextualise discipline knowledge to performance sports and / or health, disease and aging (PLO 7)


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

  1. Relate knowledge and understanding of anatomy and physiology to the control of movement
    2. Apply knowledge of the basic mechanisms by which human movement is controlled by the central and peripheral nervous systems
    3. Integrate practice of motor control with your knowledge of anatomy, physiology and biomechanics
    4. Apply your knowledge to exercise, sports and clinical contexts


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).

To pass this course, you must pass the hurdle requirement and obtain an overall mark of 50% or more.

Assessment Tasks

Early Assessment Task: Research Plan
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports one or more CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4 (depending on the specific research project)

Assessment Task 2: Tutorial Learning Tasks (in-class)
Weighting 30%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4

Assessment Task 3: Major Project
Weighting 50%
This assessment task supports one or more CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4 (depending on the specific research project)

Assessment Task 4: Tutorial Attendance / Submission Requirement (minimum 80% attendance) (Pass/Fail Hurdle)
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4

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.