• Students should possess and understand foundational knowledge that enables original thinking and research in the field.
  • Students should apply acquired knowledge to solve problems in unfamiliar contexts within their field of study, including multidisciplinary scenarios.
  • Students should be able to integrate knowledge and address the complexity of making informed judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  • Students should communicate conclusions and underlying knowledge clearly and unambiguously to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
  • Students should demonstrate self-directed learning skills for continued academic growth.
  • To understand and analyze 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.
  • 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.
  • To be able to integrate knowledge and make complex judgments based on information that remains incomplete or limited, but include social and ethical responsibility reflections linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments, from a gender perspective.
  • Know how to communicate conclusions and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences, clearly and unambiguously.
  • Poseer las habilidades de aprendizaje que permita continuar estudiando la problemática contable de un modo que habrá de ser, en gran medida, autodirigido o autónomo.
  • To conceive, design and develop applied research in one of the social contexts of physical activity and sport.
  • 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.
  • To identify new problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied through applied research.
  • Conocer las características y fundamentos que conforman los diferentes paradigmas presentes en la investigación sobre ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte
  • To understand the connections between the different epistemological levels of an inquiry.
  • To analyze various types of research and relate them to the paradigms.
  • To use major documentary techniques for literature search.
  • To know the types of evaluation in science and the role scientific journals play in the communication of research.
  • To understand the complex research environment, limitations and challenges.
  • To know the measuring instruments in the field of quantitative research.
  • To design experimental research according to ethical principles of quantitative research.
  • To choose and apply appropriate statistical techniques according to a particular study.
  • To prepare a scientific report from a quantitative research.
  • To communicate experimental research results according to the scientific culture of quantitative research.
  • To detect and identify problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied from quantitative methodology.
  • To detect and identify social problems related to physical activity and sport that can be studied from a qualitative methodology.
  • To understand and discuss methodologies and techniques of qualitative research in social sciences and use some of them.
  • To know and consult the main qualitative research publications in the field of sport and physical activity.
  • To know different forms of qualitative data analysis.
  • Conocer programas de análisis de datos cualitativos asistidos por ordenador y utilizar alguno de ellos.
  • Conocer y analizar ejemplos de investigación cualitativa en diversos contextos sociales del ámbito de la actividad física y el deporte, de acuerdo a principios éticos de investigación cualitativa.
  • Conocer distintas formas de representación de las investigaciones cualitativas y elaborar pequeños borradores de algunas de ellas.
  • Conocer los principales modelos teóricos acerca de entrenamiento que integran los distintos ámbitos implicados en el rendimiento y la salud.
  • To identify determinants in sports talent identification.
  • To identify and analyze the main and current research lines on exercise as a tool for improving health and performance.
  • To apply research and design work plans in real environments for performance and health.
  • To know the functioning and usage of technological means to quantify variables related to performance and health.
  • Conocer y aplicar diseños de investigación en un entorno de rendimiento y de mejora de la salud.
  • To understand and analyze management techniques, strategic planning and management of the institutions and services of physical activity and sport.
  • To understand and analyze research in sports management developed in different applied contexts.
  • To know and analyze research on consumers attitudes and users of physical activity and sport services.
  • Comprender y analizar la investigación educativa que se realiza con distintos grupos sociales y en distintos contextos de la actividad física y el deporte.
  • To know the different research models and designs on teaching physical activity and sport.
  • To understand and analyze research in teacher education and other professionals of sport and physical activity.
  • To develop a research paper, which use the tools and knowledge acquired during the development of the other modules.
  • To find relevant information on major scientific databases.
  • To ask a relevant research questions to be temporary and economically viable.
  • To choose the relevant information to raise the research objectives and the most plausible hypothesis.
  • To know ethical and legal issues to be considered in a research project.
  • To use appropriate means and methods to answer the research questions.
  • To adequately manage available material and human resources.
  • To learn to work with other colleagues in a research team and manage the study participants.
  • To analyze and interpret the results of a research.
  • To contrast the own results with other already published in the scientific literature.
  • To write a scientific text according to the various existing forms of representation in research, and to present and defend it.
  • To understand the role of databases in the information access, the visibility of science and its contribution to the study of science.
  • Comprender el sentido y utilidad de los paradigmas en el campo multidisciplinar de las ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte.
  • To analyze examples of scientific documents according to certain quality criteria.