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About Study Course

Department: Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE)
Credit points / ECTS:1.33 / 2
Course supervisor:Uģis Ciematnieks
Study type:Part time, Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Sports Trainer
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Sports Science

Objective

To ensure the possibility to learn knowledge and skills in general and sport hygiene in professional qualifications of a teacher and coach.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the foundation of physiology and biochemistry, skills to independently work with information sources.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1. Understands the relationship between the quality of the environment and the health of the population.
2. Knows how to ensure chronic disease prevention, growth and restoration of capacity to work through nutrition and physical exercise.
3. Justifies the role of physical activity in maintaining health.
4. Justifies the incompatibility of the use of psychoactive substances with sport.
5. Theoretically justifies the need for hygienic means of restoring capacity to work, knows how to choose the most appropriate ones according to the needs of the athlete and knows how to use them.
6. Knows what hygiene requirements for general education institutions are and how to ensure that they are respected.
7. Understands the importance of meeting hygiene requirements when organising sports lessons and training classes.

Skills

8. Evaluates the conformity of the quality of the environment with the organisation of sports lessons and recreational events.
9. Evaluates the compliance of the diet with the principles of healthy nutrition.
10. Evaluates physical activity habits.
11. Able to develop a programme for conditioning/restoring capacity to work for people of different ages. Evaluates the conformity of the school study process, premises and equipment with hygiene requirements.
13. Explains the need for observing personal hygiene in sports classes.

Competence

14. Able to propose the necessary improvements to the school environment.
15. Ability to carry out work tasks in compliance with occupational safety and environmental protection requirements of regulatory enactments.
16. Able to take responsibility for personal capacity to work.
17. Able to detect harmful effects of working environment conditions on health, health risk factors.
18. Able to create and lead safe and effective study/training classes and competitions in the multi-annual training process.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Sports science, SpZNn 3Bachelor’sRequiredMaija Dzintare
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Sports science, SpZ 4Bachelor’sRequiredMaija Dzintare