Course Title: Motor Development
Campus Course Code: KINE 3310
Campus: UT Permian Basin
Program: Non-Program
Course Description
Motor development is the sequential, continuous age-related process whereby movement behavior changes. The essence of the study of motor development is observing how movements change across the life span, and then determining why they change. Understanding life span motor development will assist your professional development in many movement fields (e.g., educators at all levels, special education educators, physical educators, coaches, adult fitness leaders, physical therapists). It will also provide you with information that will be useful in your personal life in roles such as parent, son or daughter, and grandparent. Because all people go through these developmental changes during their lives, all people can benefit from understanding more about motor development. Additionally, you do not need extensive experience in movement studies to profit from this course. You have considerable personal experience in developing motorically, and that will stand you in good stead throughout the course. The course can be take for either Kinesiology or Child Development credit.
Course Objectives
The purpose of this course is to explore age-related changes in motor behavior, skill performance, perceptual-motor abilities, and physical fitness.
Upon completing the course, you should have developed the following competencies:
- the ability to formulate a developmental perspective, especially from a life span viewpoint,
- knowledge of changing motor behavior across the life span,
- knowledge of the factors affecting motor development, including physical growth and physiological change, perceptual change, and socio-cultural practices, and
- the ability to apply motor development knowledge.
Materials
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Credits:3
Level:Undergraduate
Faculty
Holly Morrison
morrison_h@utpb.edu