- Docente: Giorgio Gatta
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-EDF/02
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Giorgio Gatta (Modulo 1) Matteo Cortesi (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Exercise and Sport Sciences (cod. 8512)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student: - knows the diversifications between the movement in the terrestrial and in the aquatic environment; - know the characteristics of the different motor and sports activities that take place in the water; - is able to apply correct teaching methodologies, with specific application reference to swimming, to design and perform motor activity in an aquatic environment.
Course contents
The contents of the program are divided into 3 areas:
a) Biomechanics and physiology of movement inb) Didactics and swimming technique
c) Characteristics of aquatic activities
a) Man and water, historical references, social and cultural aspects. Swimming today and swimming for everyone. Aquatic activities in Italy. The aquatic environment, differences between terrestrial and aquatic motility. Physical characteristics of the fluid. The dynamics of the flow. Floating, resistances: passive and active drag and measurement methods. The technical suits. Movement in water. Propulsion, propulsive efficiency. Physiological aspects of movement in
b) Swimming teaching, pedagogical models and values, aquatic motor patterns and the development of
c) Types of different motor activities in
Readings/Bibliography
Notes of the lectures (slides-articles) inserted on Alma-Campus. For further information: Maglischo E.W. "Swimming even faster" Mayfield Publishing Company 1993.
Teaching methods
Lectures are planned with technical aids for teaching and participation at the invitation of expert speakers for the theory. Practical activity in water led by trainers. 70% of the attendance to the lessons of the Course is compulsory (both in theory and in practice).
Assessment methods
At the end of
Teaching tools
Use of Video projector, PC, overhead projector, whiteboard.
Links to further information
http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?upn=giorgio.gatta@unibo.it
Office hours
See the website of Giorgio Gatta
See the website of Matteo Cortesi