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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

314182 (v.1) Advanced Exercise Physiology 351

Area: School of Physiotherapy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Practical: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s): 314178 (v.1) Exercise Physiology 252 or any previous version
Syllabus: This unit examines the integrated regulation of organ systems during exercise in applied settings spanning chronic disease through elite sport will be examined. Areas with specific relevance to the physiology of elite sports performance will include, but not be limited to, mechanisms of adaptation, environmental stress, ergogenic aids, novel training approaches, limitations to exercise in healthy normal individuals, and well-trained and elite athletes, facilitating recovery, overtraining, and shortfalls in the exercise physiology knowledge base. Clinical exercise physiology examines the role of exercise in the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of chronic disease.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 010913 Human Biology
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External