Course

Applied Methods: Individual Activities and Games

Faculty
Science and Technology
Department
Sport Science
Course code
SPSC 1322
Credits
3.00
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
30
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Field Experience
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
Fall
Winter
Summer

Overview

Course description
Using personalized systems of instruction and inquiry-based teaching practices, students explore how to couple motivational teaching practices with physical competence development across a mixture of individual activities and games. Event sports (track and field), mat-related, gym-related, and water-based activities combine to provide a broad range of activities to apply transferable concepts of qualitative biomechanics and physical literacy development. Field trips are a required part of this course and take place during class time. The course is open to students of all physical abilities.
Course content
  • Inquiry-based pedagogical content
    • Model overview
    • Model components (questioning, gathering, analyzing, evaluating, communicating, reflecting)
  • Personalized System of Instruction
    • Model overview
    • Model components (self-paced, mastery-based, task presentation, proctors, demonstration methods)
  • Qualitative biomechanical analysis
    • Phases of skill (movement)
    • Video analysis
    • Error detection and correction
  • Biomechanical concepts
    • Maximum velocity
    • Linear motion
    • Angular motion
    • Summation of forces
    • Action/reaction
    • Impulse
    • Moment of inertia
    • Conservation of angular momentum
  • Physical literacy and dynamic systems consideration in individual activities and games
    • Individual dimensions (affective, cognitive, psychomotor, behavioural)
    • Task complexity and structure
    • Environmental considerations
  • Culturally relevant activities based on individual sports and games
    • Historical
    • Place-based
  • Activities will include the following broad categories
    • Mat-based (combative sports)
    • Judo
    • Wrestling
  • Stadium events (track and field)
    • Running events
    • Jumping events
    • Throwing events
  • Water environment
    • Water safety
    • Swimming events
    • Water polo
  • Other individual activities and games
    • Skateboarding
    • Carnival events
    • Circus
    • Cycling
    • Individual racket
    • Parkour
    • Scooters
    • Disc golf
Learning activities

Class time will be used for lectures, peer discussion, peer teaching, guided exploration, practical application, and group work. Field trip examples include access to aquatic centres, curling rinks, outdoor disc golf spaces, outdoor track and field spaces, etc.    

Means of assessment

Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. The instructor will present a written course outline with specific evaluation criteria at the beginning of the semester. Evaluation will be based on the following:

Instructional resource manual 0-25%
Peer teaching 10-30%
Sport movement analysis project 10-30%
Physical literacy critical reflection journal 0-20%
Quizzes and assignments 0-20%
Participation 10-30%
Total 100%

This is a letter-graded course.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Apply pedagogical content knowledge (teaching ability) using the six components of inquiry-based learning: the ability to formulate questions; to gather and organize; to interpret and analyze; to evaluate and draw conclusions; to communicate and reflect; and to apply knowledge;
  • Apply pedagogical content knowledge (teaching ability) using the major components of the Personalized System of Instruction: self-paced learning, mastery­-based learning, content presentation, proctors, and demonstration methods;
  • Analyze movement patterns and contextualized skills to inform teaching/coaching progression;
  • Apply qualitative biomechanical principles to the analysis of movement;
  • Apply the principles of physical literacy via reflective analysis to personal involvement in a variety of individual sports and games. 
Textbook materials

Consult the Douglas College Bookstore for the latest required textbooks and materials. Example textbooks may include:

Sport for Life, Understanding Physical Literacy: A Canadian Perspective (current edition).

 

Requisites

Prerequisites

None

Corequisites

None

Equivalencies

None

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers to Other Institutions

Below are current transfer agreements from Douglas College to other institutions for the current course guidelines only. For a full list of transfer details and archived courses, please see the BC Transfer Guide.

Institution Transfer details for SPSC 1322
Alexander College (ALEX) No credit
Athabasca University (AU) AU EDUC 2XX (3)
Camosun College (CAMO) CAMO KIN 150 (3)
College of the Rockies (COTR) COTR KNES 1XX (3)
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) No credit
Langara College (LANG) LANG KINS 1XXX (3)
Simon Fraser University (SFU) No credit
Trinity Western University (TWU) TWU HKIN 1XX (3)
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) No credit
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) UBCV KIN_V 1st (3)
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) No credit
University of Northern BC (UNBC) UNBC EDUC 1XX (3)
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV KIN 1XX (3)
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC EPHE 1XX (1.5)
Vancouver Community College (VCC) No credit
Vancouver Island University (VIU) VIU KIN 1st (3)

Course Offerings

Winter 2027

CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
30
Currently enrolled
0
Remaining seats:
30
On waitlist
0
Building
New Westminster - North Bldg.
Room
GYM
Times:
Start Time
10:30
-
End Time
12:20
Building
New Westminster - North Bldg.
Room
N1119
Times:
Start Time
10:30
-
End Time
12:20
Section notes

SPSC 1322 001 - Registration is restricted to Sport Science Diploma and Bachelor of Physical Education and Coaching students until 9:00am November 25 2026. This course includes fieldtrips off-site during scheduled class times. Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.