Appropriately-equipped laboratory
Appropriate technical support
Appropriately-equipped lecture room

Bartlett, R. (2007). Introduction to sports biomechanics. Analysing human movement patterns. London: Routledge.
Hall, S (2007) Basic Biomechanics. 5Ed. McGraw-Hill.
Payton, C & Bartlett, R (2007) Biomechanical Evaluation of Movement in Sport and Exercise: The British association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Guide. Routledge.

Students will be required to complete 2 pieces of summative assessment.
An overall GP4 is required to pass the module and although all elements of assessment do not have to be passed a minimum GP2 must be achieved for each individual element to pass this module.

An Essay of 1500 words (Assesses LO 3 and 4)
A Laboratory report ( group activity) of 1500 words (Assesses LOS 1, 2 & 3)

Additional Assessment Details (including formative feedback / assessment:
The laboratory report will be based on a group activity where the students are expected to complete a set of data acquisition procedures and produce a report.

Students will be required to attend the laboratory during normally-scheduled lab time, and will be given a specific set of procedures to complete. Whilst data collection and analysis will be carried out in a group, each student within the group will be expected to expand on a pre-agreed specific topic. Within each group, the students will be expected to evaluate and critique their own and their partners work before completing the report.

Students will be provided with formative assessment and feedback via supervised practical sessions where feedback will be given directly to students by supervising staff. Written tasks will be provided, for which the answers will be given directly from module staff (e.g. via verbal or electronic format) and discussed during lab sessions. Such tasks will help develop skills required for both assessments.

The purpose of this module is to build on the basic understanding of the human anatomy and biomechanics with a focus on biomechanical data acquisition procedures. Students will have practical experience on the measurement of force and pressure to normal gait and simple sporting related activities. A further understanding of the Kinematics of the human body related to specific sporting activities will be provided. This module will also introduce the assessment of the electrical activity of muscles during simple sporting movements. Other topics covered within this module are:
- Assessment of measurement validity, accuracy and reliability.
- Error effects and their solution.
- Force and moment analysis.
- The importance of angular kinematics.
- Biomechanics of high performance athletes.
- Introduction to gait analysis
- Appropriate methods of data presentation.

Contact Hours: (64)
24 hours Lectures
20 x 2 hours Labs/seminars = 40 hours

Independent Study Hours: (236 hours)
reading (76 hours)
Lab report preparation (80 hours)
Course Work report preparation (hours)