The instructor will introduce various phenomena related to the body and physical activities, explaining the underlying physiological, engineering, psychological mechanisms, medicine and backgrounds.
Students will gain an understanding of the various underlying mechanisms of physical phenomena, and be able to observe body movements from a scientific perspective.
physical activity, sports, physiology, psychology, engineering, medicine
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Attendance is taken every class.
Take note that the instructor changes based on the day of the week.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Introduction on classes on Thursday. | Understand basic concepts of this course on Thursday. |
Class 2 | Introduction on classes on Monday. Study about metabolic syndrome. | Understand basic concepts of this course on Monday. Understand about metabolic syndrome. |
Class 3 | Muscular activity and health | Understand roles of muscular activity on health. |
Class 4 | health checkup. (on Monday) | Understand about health checkup. (on Monday) |
Class 5 | Endurance exercise and health | Understand roles of endurance exercise on health. |
Class 6 | smoking and drinking. (on Monday) | Understand the influence of smoking and drinking for your body.(on Monday) |
Class 7 | Modern society (globalization) and infectious diseases | Understand the characteristics of infections caused by globalization. |
Class 8 | Infectious disease. (on Monday) | Understand infectious disease.(on Monday) |
Class 9 | Exercise performance under high and low temperature environment. | Understand basics of thermoregulation. |
Class 10 | Mechanism of vision. | Understand basics of visionary mechanism. |
Class 11 | Exercise performance under high and low temperature environment. Consideration of the competition time at the Olympic games. | Understand thermoregulation during exercise. |
Class 12 | Physical exercise under extreme circumstances. | Understand characteristics and difficulties of physical activity under extreme circumstances. |
Class 13 | Effects and risks to the body of various sports events, Lifelong sport that fits you | Understand the effective application of sports activities. |
Class 14 | Human being in space. | Understand physiological responses and adaptations to the outer space. |
Class 15 | Discussion on the whole theme is scheduled. | Discuss various phenomena related to the body and physical activities, based on info. collected by students. |
None required.
None required in English textbook.
The four instructors assess quiz and/or short reports.
None