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The minor in "physical activity, health and culture of movement"(French acronym: APSC) opens up the world of physical and sporting activity to the student as an additional subject to his/her major.

The student is thus able to acquire skills in the health management field via physical and sporting activity, skills which will be of use to him/her straight away during his/her time as a student and then later in adult life.

What are the main physiological changes our bodies undergo as they react to physical strain and exercise? What are the psycho-social factors that mean that some people take up regular physical activity and keep it up? What is the psycho-socio-economic cost of a sedentary lifestyle? What are the conditions for safe sport?

The answers to these questions provide the student with the analytical keys s/he needs to judge the benefit physical and sporting activity can have on our health.

The aim of the course is to imagine an academic who him/herself practices a high-level physical activity and, as a socio-economic player, is aware of the fight against a sedentary lifestyle in terms of human development, as an element of public health and socio-economic efficiency.

The course does not aim to train movement professionals (teachers, trainers, high-level sportsmen/women or other players in the sporting and physical activity arena).

The minor thus provides the academic to the culture of movement.

Skills to be acquired

Once s/he has completed the minor, the student will have acquired the following skills:

1. S/he is highly aware of the contribution that physical and sporting activity (French acronym: APS) can make to the health (French acronym: OMS) of a person as part of a balanced amount of physical, psychological and socio-environmental factors.

2. S/he has the relevant analytical tools at his/her disposal to form the link between physical or sporting activity and health, enabling him/her to see the value of proposed actions (cf skill 6). More specifically:

basic knowledge of how the physiology of the body adapts to different types of strain (foundations);
the role of the elements surrounding the practice of physical activities making it a healthy activity (nutritional factors, APS in a hot or polluted atmosphere, etc)
the cost for society and business of a sedentary lifestyle
the link between APS, stress and mental and physical fatigue,
conditions for practicing sport safely (protecting your back- in movement and position, etc)
basic knowledge of how to be sufficiently motivated to practice sport on a regular basis.

3. S/he experiments with the representative techniques in the area of the motivity of physical conditioning, body protection (safety) and well-being (health).

4. S/he can evaluate his/her own needs by analyzing simple indicators.

5. S/he analyzes his/her own assessment of his/her body through his/her APS practices by working on the reflexive dimension.

6. S/he is able to evaluate what is offered to him/her. S/he analyzes proposed operations: based on physiological, sociological criteria, peculiar to a health-related APS. I

Regular personal practice of a sport provides interesting personal experience on which the student can draw as s/he starts the minor, but the student must not be a member of a sports club to be accepted onto the minor.

The minor proposed is not specifically designed for sportsmen/women (although they are not excluded!)

Before the student is formally accepted onto the course, administration will look into whether the student will be able to attend all minor activities. For some minor activities, attendance is a requirement. Where possible, students should be free of all academic obligations linked to his/her main baccalaureate when s/he is attending minor classes. The student's availability will be confirmed by the student's conseiller aux études (course adviser). Where necessary, any other tailor-made solution will be subject to explicit agreement between the student in question, his/her conseiller aux études (course adviser) and the coordinator of the minor.

If demand exceeds the number of available places (maximum course capacity is twenty students per year of the minor, or a total of forty students), students will be chosen on the basis of their application file.

The file will give the student the chance to explain the link between his/her choice of minor course and his/her short and long-term professional and educational goals. In concrete terms, any student who is interested in the minor will complete an application form for the minor by 30 May of the previous academic year (the form can be obtained in electronic format (Word) by email, by request to the IEPR secretariat: Anne-Marie.Louterman@siep.ucl.ac.be).

Possible selection criteria (following analysis of the application)

the student's goals match those of the course
clear motivation (in the case of a matching file, priority will be given to students who have chosen the minor as their first choice)
ability to compose texts and self-analyze
feasibility (basic agreement of the conseiller aux études from the student's own faculty)

This minor is not open to IEPR students.

Legend

	Mandatory		Optional
	Courses not taught this academic year		Periodic courses not taught this academic year
	Periodic courses taught this academic year		Two year courses

Click on the course code to see detailed informations (objectives, methods, evaluation...)

Year

1

2

EDPH1008

Physical and sports activities amongst human sciences and practices (in French)

Cécile Delens (coord.), Thierry Marique

30h

3credits

x

EDPH1009

Fundemental questions about and within sports (in French)

Ghislain Carlier (coord.), Marc Francaux

30h

3credits

x

APSC1709

Construire son programme d'activités physiques et sportives et l'évaluer (in French)

N.

15h + 15h

6credits

x

EDPH1030A

Theoretical basis of sport and physical activity training, and theoretical basis of motor learning (in French)

N.

30h + 0h

3credits

x

APSC1702

Physical activities and sports, health and society (in French)

N.

60h

6credits

x

APSC1703

Stage : pratique personnelle 2 (in French)

N.

3credits

x

APSC1704

Rapport de formation en activité physique, santé et culture du mouvement (in French)

N.

6credits

x

The minor does not aim to gear students towards physical education studies but rather leads to an analysis of the body (ones own and that of others) regardless of the profession the student will go on to exert. Students who, having passed this minor, go on to complete training in physical education will only be awarded with 9 extra credits, in addition to those judged equivalent to their core baccalaureate program and the baccalaureate in motivity science, general option (= Physical education).

Before the student is formally accepted onto the course, administration will look into whether the student will be able to attend all minor activities. For some minor activities, attendance is a requirement. Where possible, students should be free of all academic obligations linked to his/her main baccalaureate when s/he is attending minor classes. The student's availability will be confirmed by the student's conseiller aux études (course adviser). Where necessary, any other tailor-made solution will be subject to explicit agreement between the student in question, his/her conseiller aux études (course adviser) and the coordinator of the minor.

Enrolling on the minor

1. Organizational details
Minor classes take place during the day on Tuesday mornings, Wednesdays all day and on Friday mornings and are given on the Louvain-la-Neuve site.
The IEPR's agreement will be subject to the number of available places (cf admission to the course) and the medical non-contradiction (medical aptitude inspection).
The admissions file (cf. admission onto the course) will be available on the network
(http://www.md.ucl.ac.be/iepr/intro.htm)
or at the IEPR secretariat from 15 April, 2006. The file will be sent to the IEPR by 30 May, 2006.
Program coordinator : Cécile Delens

2. Admission to the minor
In concrete terms, any student who is interested in taking the minor will complete by 30 May of the previous academic year an application form for the minor (the form can be obtained in electronic format (Word) by email following a request made to the IEPR secretariat: Anne-Marie.Louterman@siep.ucl.ac.be from 15 April, 2006).

The IEPR's agreement will be subject to the number of places available and the medical non-contradiction (medical aptitude inspection). The admissions file will be available on the network (http://www.md.ucl.ac.be/iepr/intro.htm) or at the IEPR secretariat from 15 April, 2006. The file will be sent to the IEPR by 30 May, 2006.

If demand exceeds the number of available places (maximum course capacity is twenty students per year of the minor, or a total of forty students), students will be chosen on the basis of their application file.

The file will give the student the chance to explain the link between his/her choice of minor course and his/her short and long-term professional and educational goals. In concrete terms, any student who is interested in the minor will complete an application form for the minor by 30 May of the previous academic year (the form can be obtained in electronic format (Word) by email, by request to the IEPR secretariat: Anne-Marie.Louterman@siep.ucl.ac.be).

Possible selection criteria (following analysis of the application)

the student's goals match those of the course
clear motivation (in the case of a matching file, priority will be given to students who have chosen the minor as their first choice)
ability to compose texts and self-analyze
feasibility (basic agreement of the conseiller aux études from the student's own faculty)

This minor is not open to IEPR students.

The file will be filled in in June (and possibly in September), listing the results obtained in the student's main course. Should demand exceed available places, priority will be given to students who passed their first year baccalaureate in June.

3. Enrolling on the minor and checks on the enrollment form
Link to be indicated

4. Checks on the minor enrollment
IEPR acceptance :

15 July, 2006, for students who have passed their first year baccalaureate in June, 2006)
15 September, for students who have passed their first year baccalaureate in September, 2006)

The decision will be sent to the students.

Contact person : Cécile Delens (Cecile.Delens@edpm.ucl.ac.be)

5. Changes to the minor enrollment form
Any requests to change the enrollment, with supporting reasons, must be made to the conseiller aux études (course adviser) of the student's own faculty.

Course times

1. Consulting course times
Link to be indicated

2. Resolving possible timetable clashes using an equivalence table
Contact person : Cécile Delens (Cecile.Delens@edpm.ucl.ac.be)

Enrollment form for minor activities

1. Information on entry requirements
There are no entry requirements for 1st year minor courses.

In the second year of the minor, the student must have taken the course listed below during the previous year:

APSC7001
COURSE TITLE [15h+15h] (6 credits)
Cécile Delens, Marc Francaux (coord.)

2. Signing up for minor program activities
Link to be indicated

3. Obtaining the agreement from the person in charge of the minor
Contact person : Cécile Delens (Cecile.Delens@edpm.ucl.ac.be)

Available support

1. Information on the course service
Contact person : Cécile Delens (Cecile.Delens@edpm.ucl.ac.be)

2. Consulting the table of available support for each activity
Contact person : Cécile Delens (Cecile.Delens@edpm.ucl.ac.be)

Organization of exams

1. Registering for exams
TO BE COMPLETED

2. Consulting exam times
Link to be indicated