SECOND CYCLE DEGREE COURSE – 2 YEARS – CLASS LM68

Degree Programme Director:  Prof. Francesco Masedu

Academic Didactic Council Director: Prof.ssa M.Giulia Vinciguerra

Learning objectives

The specific aim of this Course is to provide Master graduates with advanced scientific and methodological knowledge in the field of sporting activities of high level. During the Course students acquire knowledge and competencies aimed at helping the athletes to achieve optimal performances through advanced training techniques and favoring the optimization of athletes’ technical and physiological performances. These objectives are achieved by means of frontal lessons (held as seminars), and meetings with experts, through case studies, technical-practical in-field demonstrations and individual exercises with the use of advanced tools of performance analysis and functional assessment; by compiling individual bibliographic lists and writing original essays on the disciplines and topics dealt with during the course of study; through internships at qualified institutions for the different sporting disciplines; eventually with the realization of an experimental thesis based on a topic concerning the course of study, using acknowledged qualitative and quantitative criteria to write a scientific report. Description of the training pathway: The two-year course of study is organized in integrated courses, along with the distinctive and related disciplinary sectors defined by the academic regulations table. This kind of organization (integrated courses and sectors) brings to the definition of two distinct curricula: the first one oriented towards the training and assessment methodology, the second one towards the physical preparation and the management of mountain sports and activities. The curriculum of training and assessment methodology is a course of systematic and professional in-depth analysis about the methodologies of applied research to sports training, in which the evaluative aspect has an essential role: students, indeed, use the knowledge assets acquired during the three-year course in Movement Sciences, in an evaluative theoretical-practical setting: from the anatomical, functional and compositional assessment to the study of adaptation limits; from the acquisition of quantitative methods concerning modeling and biometrics to the employment of advanced assessment technologies for both individual and team training and performances; from the planning and scheduling techniques to the planning of functional tests aimed at verifying and assessing the athletes, with an in-depth analysis on endurance, strength and artistic sports; from the study of integrative nutrition needs to the not only legal consequences of doping, from the psychological aspects of competition to the study of chronic and acute overtraining syndrome and Basic Life Support practice; the training pathway eventually comprises advanced language and computer science courses. The curriculum in personal trainer and management expert of mountain sports and activities is a highly professional course that exclusively uses facilities in close proximity to mountain environments. The training core consists in a solid methodological structure, like the previously described curriculum, but all the professional in-depth studies focus on mountain: for example, the study of adaptation limits exclusively concerns the high altitude adaptation, and the analysis of the psychological and medical aspects of training focuses on high altitude’s specific issues; the planning and evaluative aspects are here deeply examined in relation to the specificities of mountain sports, and all of them are studied in detail from both the methodological and the technical point of view.