Every semester
10 Credit points
For information on the duration of the modul, refer to the courses of study in which the module is used.
By analysing mainly international literature, you will independently acquire specialist knowledge on health-related sporting activities and the ecological, social and economic sustainability of sport. You will also learn to methodically analyse the effects on mental and physical health and the impact of sport on the environment, to critically reflect on conclusions based on the literature discussed and to evaluate the information obtained. You will discuss these issues in group work so that you will also be able to mediate between different positions and present the results or moderate seminar discussions.
You will prove that you have acquired the specialist and communicative competences by demonstrating your knowledge and understanding of the issues dealt with in the courses in an oral examination or in a portfolio.
This module builds on the basic knowledge of sport sociology acquired in the course "Fundamentals of Sport Sociology" (module 61-PW-GL2) and provides you with further insights into the relationships between sport and health as well as sport and sustainability.
The seminar "Sport and Health" deals on the one hand with determinants of health-relevant sporting activities at various levels (e.g. individual/micro level, living environment/meso level, regional or national level/macro level). The seminar also deals with the health effects of sport and physical activity. Not only effects on physical health (e.g. absence of illness), but also on mental health (e.g. well-being, life satisfaction, happiness) will be discussed. In addition to the discussion of content, the focus is on methodological aspects that are relevant in order to be able to draw meaningful conclusions.
In the seminar "Sport and Sustainability", a special focus is placed on the ecological and social sustainability of sport. The effects of climate change on sport and the effects of sport on the environment are discussed. Building on this, the seminar is dedicated to various methods for recording environmental effects and empirical findings from different areas of sport (e.g. regular sports participation, sports travel, sports events and sports organisations). In addition, topics such as the effects of climate change on winter sports and the Winter Olympics in particular will be covered.
Simultaneous attendance of the course "Fundamentals of Sports Sociology" of module 61-PW-GL2 is strongly recommended.
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Module structure: 2 SL, 1 bPr 1
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Sport and health
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The seminar is designed in such a way that each participant completes a course assignment. The coursework serves to demonstrate a reflective and discursive attitude to the topics covered in the course and has a practising and deepening character with regard to the competences anchored in the module. An academic achievement is the completion of an assignment for practice purposes. Such assignments may include: preparing minutes of a meeting, an abstract of a short text, an essay, preparing a contribution to a meeting or a presentation, solving application tasks, moderating a discussion group or similar. The following applies to all contributions: Students may be required to submit written contributions totalling a maximum of 1800 words or oral contributions totalling a maximum of 30-40 minutes in this course. |
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Teaching staff of the course
Sport and sustainability
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The examination can take the form of a 30-minute oral examination or a portfolio. A portfolio comprises 2-3 smaller pieces of written work (e.g. research overviews on sub-problems of the research problems presented in the seminar, written contribution to a discussion, documentation and reflection on research approaches to sustainability and health in sport and/or sustainability strategies in sport or documentation and reflection on independently introduced research topics or similar), which the student prepares in the course of the seminar. The portfolio has a total length of approximately 12 pages. There is only an overall assessment of the portfolio, no assessment of individual parts. The teacher decides on the form of examination to be taken in one of the two courses of the module.
| Degree programme | Version | Profile | Recommended start 3 | Duration | Mandatory option 4 |
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| Sports Science / Bachelor of Arts [FsB vom 03.05.2023 mit Berichtigung vom 16.05.2023 und Änderungen vom 10.12.2024 und 17.12.2024] | Bachelor with One Core Subject (Academic) | Economy and Society | 2. o. 3. | 2 semesters | Obligation |
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