School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Lifespan Growth and Development
  • Unit Code

    SPS1530
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kylie Anne CORMACK

Description

This unit provides coverage of human growth and development throughout the lifespan as it relates to movement of the body. The content emphasises typical aspects as well as the unique problems and needs of each age and stage of development. This unit focuses on the physical, cognitive, motor and affective characteristics of the individual from the prenatal period through to late adulthood as they relate to exercise and sport.

Equivalent Rule

This unit was previously coded SPS1525

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify factors affecting human growth and development across the lifespan.
  2. Investigate how human growth and development impacts physical activity and exercise across lifespan.
  3. Apply knowledge of human growth and development across the lifespan to analyse motor performance.
  4. Work collaboratively to plan exercise and motor performance improvements through movement, exercise and physical activity interventions.

Unit Content

  1. Factors affecting growth and development with particular emphasis on motor development.
  2. Structural, physiological, cognitive, affective and motor changes across the lifespan and the effect of exercise on such changes.
  3. Fundamental movement skills.
  4. Stages of human growth & development.
  5. Importance of play, fundamental movement skills, games, sport, exercise & physical activity across the lifespan for different populations and cultures.
  6. Theoretical models of motor development.
  7. Oral & written communication skills including; conflict resolution, negotiating skills, critical thinking, referencing, library skills, academic writing and careers.
  8. Academic and Communication skills.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot Offered4 x 5 hour lab
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered13 x 2 hour lecture
Semester 13 x 1.5 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students attend workshops to develop their fundamental written and oral communication skills and build competence in researching academic literature. Conflict resolution, negotiating skills, critical thinking, referencing library skills, academic writing form significant learning components of this unit. The workshops also cover cultural awareness including Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competence and ESSA accreditation framework to support career development.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentHuman Movement Group Project30%
PresentationDelivery of Fundamental Movement Skills Session20%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Kathleen M. Haywood, N. Getchell. (2020). Life span motor development (7th ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1089841542
  • Santrock, J. W. (2019). Life-span development (Seventeenth edition.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1110091479
  • Gallahue, D. L., Ozmun, J. C., & Goodway, J. D. (2019). Understanding motor development : infants, children, adolescents, adults (8th ed.). New York: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1117645275

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Lifespan Growth and Development
  • Unit Code

    SPS1530
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Kylie Anne CORMACK

Description

This unit provides coverage of human growth and development throughout the lifespan as it relates to movement of the body. The content emphasises typical aspects as well as the unique problems and needs of each age and stage of development. This unit focuses on the physical, cognitive, motor and affective characteristics of the individual from the prenatal period through to late adulthood as they relate to exercise and sport.

Equivalent Rule

This unit was previously coded SPS1525

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify factors affecting human growth and development across the lifespan.
  2. Investigate how human growth and development impacts physical activity and exercise across lifespan.
  3. Apply knowledge of human growth and development across the lifespan to analyse motor performance.
  4. Work collaboratively to plan exercise and motor performance improvements through movement, exercise and physical activity interventions.

Unit Content

  1. Factors affecting growth and development with particular emphasis on motor development.
  2. Structural, physiological, cognitive, affective and motor changes across the lifespan and the effect of exercise on such changes.
  3. Fundamental movement skills.
  4. Stages of human growth & development.
  5. Importance of play, fundamental movement skills, games, sport, exercise & physical activity across the lifespan for different populations and cultures.
  6. Theoretical models of motor development.
  7. Oral & written communication skills including; conflict resolution, negotiating skills, critical thinking, referencing, library skills, academic writing and careers.
  8. Academic and Communication skills.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot Offered4 x 5 hour lab
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered13 x 2 hour lecture
Semester 13 x 1.5 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students attend workshops to develop their fundamental written and oral communication skills and build competence in researching academic literature. Conflict resolution, negotiating skills, critical thinking, referencing library skills, academic writing form significant learning components of this unit. The workshops also cover cultural awareness including Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competence and ESSA accreditation framework to support career development.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentHuman Movement Group Project30%
PresentationDelivery of Fundamental Movement Skills Session20%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Kathleen M. Haywood, N. Getchell. (2020). Life span motor development (7th ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1089841542
  • Santrock, J. W. (2017). Life-span development. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/951563244
  • Santrock, J. W. (2019). Life-span development (Seventeenth edition.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1110091479
  • Gallahue, D. L., Ozmun, J. C., & Goodway, J. D. (2019). Understanding motor development : infants, children, adolescents, adults (8th ed.). New York: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1117645275
  • Gallahue, D. L., Ozmun, J. C., & Goodway, J. D. (2019). Understanding motor development : infants, children, adolescents, adults (8th ed.). New York: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1117645275

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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