SPCO343-18S1 (D) Semester One 2018 (Distance)

Nutrition and Recovery for Sports Performance

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 2 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 18 May 2018

Description

This course challenges students to critically assess various contemporary nutritional and recovery techniques and delve into the research to determine their effectiveness. Students will look at the multidisciplinary relationship between the sports nutritionist and the strength and conditioning coach. Additionally, students will gain an appreciation of when it is appropriate to recommend a particular supplement / recovery intervention.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

1) SPCO242 or 2) enrolment in GradCertSpC, or
3) approval from Programme Coordinator

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Carl Petersen

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 100% 2.5 hours. Exam features mostly long answer questions drawn from both the lecture and lab content. Held during the official UC Examination period. Check the UC examination timetable for date, time and room venue. Keep up to date through this link: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/exams/

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $865.00

International fee $3,788.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

All SPCO343 Occurrences

  • SPCO343-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018
  • SPCO343-18S1 (D) Semester One 2018 (Distance)