The main objective of the Master’s Degree is for its students to acquire the following competences:

Basics

• BC1: Students can apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
• BC2: Students are able to integrate knowledge and handle the complexity of formulating judgements based on information that, while being incomplete or limited, includes reflection on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements.
• BC3: Students can communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences, clearly and unambiguously.
• BC4: Students have the learning skills that will allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
• BC5: Students have the knowledge and understanding that provide a basis or an opportunity for originality in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context.

General

• GC1: To possess the learning skills that will allow them to continue studying the accounting problem in a way that will be, to a great extent, self-directed or autonomous.
• GC2: To be able to communicate the conclusions (and the knowledge and underlying reasons of their work) to specialist and/or non-specialist audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.
• GC3: To be able to integrate knowledge and make complex judgements based on information that remains incomplete or limited, but include social and ethical responsibility reflections linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements, from a gender perspective.
• GC4: To understand and analyse the research being done in the context of exercise and health, physical education and sport, and sports performance and management of physical activity and sport.
• GC5: To apply knowledge and be able to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related Physical Activity and Sport Sciences.
• GC6: To adapt the design and methodology to the subject matter and research characteristics, as well as to interpret the results, discuss and develop clear and consistent conclusions.
• GC7: To conceive, design and develop applied research in one of the social contexts of physical activity and sport.
• GC8: To identify new problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied through applied research.

Specific

• SC1: To understand the meaning and usefulness of paradigms in the multidisciplinary field of physical activity and sport sciences.
• SC2: To know the characteristics and foundations that make up the different paradigms present in in physical activity and sports science research.
• SC3: To understand the connections between the different epistemological levels of an inquiry.
• SC4: To analyse various types of research and relate them to the paradigms.
• SC5: To know the types of evaluation in science and the role scientific journals play in the communication of research.
• SC6: To analyse examples of scientific documents according to certain quality criteria.
• SC7: To use major documentary techniques for literature search.
• SC8: To understand the role of databases in the information access, the visibility of science and its contribution to the study of science.
• SC9: To understand the complex research environment, ists limitations and its challenges.
• SC10: To know the measuring instruments in the field of quantitative research.
• SC11: To design experimental research according to ethical principles of quantitative research.
• SC12: To choose and apply appropriate statistical techniques according to a particular study.
• SC13: To prepare a scientific report from a quantitative research.
• SC14: To communicate experimental research results according to the scientific culture of quantitative research.
• SC15: To detect and identify problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied from quantitative methodology.
• SC16: To detect and identify social problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied from a qualitative methodology.
• SC17: To understand and discuss methodologies and techniques of qualitative research in social sciences and use some of them.
• SC18: To know and consult the main qualitative research publications in the field of sport and physical activity.
• SC19: To know different forms of qualitative data analysis.
• SC20: To be familiar with computer-assisted qualitative data analysis programs and to use some of them.
• SC21: To understand and analyse examples of qualitative research in various social contexts in the physical activity and sport field, according to ethical principles of qualitative research.
• SC22: To learn about different forms of representation of qualitative research and to produce small drafts of some of them.
• SC23: To understand the main theoretical models about training that integrate the different areas involved in performance and health.
• SC24: To identify decisive factors in sports talent identification.
• SC25: To identify and analyse the main and current research lines on exercise as a tool for improving health and performance.
• SC26: To apply research and design work plans in real environments for performance and health.
• SC27: To know the functioning and usage of technological means to quantify variables related to performance and health.
• SC28: To know and apply research designs in an environment of performance and health improvement.
• SC29: To understand and analyse management techniques, strategic planning and management of the institutions and services of physical activity and sport.
• SC30: To understand and analyse research in sports management developed in different applied contexts.
• SC31: To know and analyse research on consumers attitudes and users of physical activity and sport services.
• SC32: To understand and analyse educational research carried out with different social groups and in different contexts of physical activity and sport.
• SC33: To know the different research models and designs on teaching physical activity and sport.
• SC34: To understand and analyse research in teacher training and other professionals of sport and physical activity.
• SC35: To develop a research paper, in which the tools and knowledge acquired during the development of the other modules must be used.
• SC36: To find relevant information on major scientific databases.
• SC37: To ask a relevant research questions to be temporary and economically viable.
• SC38: To choose the relevant information to contemplate the aims of the research and the most plausible hypothesis.
• SC39: To know ethical and legal issues to be considered in a research project.
• SC40: To use appropriate means and methods to answer the research questions. 
• SC41: To adequately manage available material and human resources.
• SC42: To learn to work with other colleagues in a research team and manage the study participants.
• SC43: To analyse and understand the results of a research.
• SC44: To contrast the own results with other already published in the scientific literature.
• SC45: To write a scientific text according to the various existing forms of representation in research, and to present and defend it.