Course Objectives

Summer Sports and Practical Pedagogy will provide students with a practical/ theoretical understanding of three summer sports. Students will acquire:

• Insight into, and personal skills, in three sports.
• An understanding of the basic principles of skills and development.
• Knowledge of arranging, organising, teaching and supervising players/teams with the aim of improving their skills.
• An appreciation of the qualities, norms and rules of the three summer sports.

Course Description

In the courses, work with practical pedagogic approaches will be emphasised. The introduction will employ a variety of didactic approaches, which will provide insight into the different ways in which sport activities can be taught.

Subject material – sand volleyball

Students will acquire the skills which will enable them to initiate and organise sand volleyball, and train themselves and others in the sport.

The two main aims are:

• To develop individual and team skills in sand-volleyball.
• To present variation in the training, and to organise the training and coaching to provide a maximum number of ball-contacts. This also involves learning a repertoire of functional ball exercises.

Students will practice and learn:

• Ball-playing skills and teamwork.
• The concepts and tactical evaluations of sand-volleyball.
• The game and its variations.
• Communication during a game.
• Serving and types of serves.
• Slamming and returning serves.
• Finger strokes and set-ups.
• Attacks and feinting.
• Blocking and defensive moves.
• Basic rules and referee signs.
• Study excursions with observation of elite sand-volleyball players during training sessions and actual games.

The course includes obligatory personal training in groups of around 7 students.

Several internal sand volleyball tournaments will be held, which will be organised by the students.

Subject material - Surfing

This course will provide an introduction to surfing and life saving in the open sea. Students will be able to personally experience surfing as an activity. There will be an emphasis on the development of individual surfing skills. Students will acquire skills which will enable them to initiate and organise activities, and to train themselves and instruct others in surfing.

Students will work on:

• Water activities and swimming in open water.
• Life-saving on the coast.
• CPR-training.
• General surfboard knowledge.
• Training in the absence of waves: Position on the surfboard, paddling technique, turning the surfboard and different ways of crossing waves.
• Surfboard maintenance, cleaning and applying wax.
• Dry-training: Position on the surfboard.
• Surfing in the foam (after the waves have broken).
• Crossing the waves.
• Predicting when the seas will break.
• Surfing competitions.

The course will finish with obligatory personal training sessions in groups of about 7 students.

Content – Capoeira

This course will serve as an introduction to both Capoeira and Samba. Students will be able to personally experience Capoeira and Samba as activity forms, and learn about Capoeira and the associated music. Play, creativity, dance and improvisation are important aspects of Capoeira, and we wish to stimulate these skills among the students through various exercises.

Students will work on:

• The language of motion
• Introducing Samba
• Capoeira’s rituals, songs and music
• Specific Capoeira training: rhythm, coordination, agility, strength and endurance
• Ginga and basic steps in Capoeira
• Basic ‘ataque’ and ‘defesa’ (attack and defence)
• Introduction to the most common ‘golpes’ (kicks)
• Introduction to the game of ‘Roda’ (played in a ring with two opposing teams)
• Maculêlê (African dance with wooden pins)
• Samba da Roda
• - and on the interplay between the various components
• - there will be an introduction to the songs and playing of the main instruments of Capoeira: ‘berimbau’, (a string instrument), ‘Pandeiro’ (tambourine) and atabaque (drums)

During the course, there will be obligatory practice in groups of around 7 students.

The course will finish with a ‘Capoeira, Maculêlê and Samba presentation’ (check under content in the portfolio).

Learning Methods

Students may choose either the autumn or the spring semester. The instruction is identical for both semesters (240 hours per semester).

The programme combines both practice and theory, in which each respective approach is viewed from the perspective of the other. The instructors will work in close cooperation with the students. Throughout the programme, students will be exposed to a variety of teaching and learning methods which will include practical teaching, guidance, report-writing (portfolio), projects, group instruction, individual study and theoretical lectures. In both the practical and the theoretical work, students will work independently and with teams of fellow students.

Some of the lessons will include supervision regarding improving students’ personal skills.

In both sand-volleyball, Capoeira/Samba and surfing, students will be expected to supervise practical exercises, with particular attention paid to the organisation of learning situations. Students will prepare and execute their own teaching plans.

Assessment Methods

Requirements for a passing grade are:

• Active participation in at least 80 % of the classes. Pass/fail.
• Students must submit three reports in their portfolios, associated with the three activities.

The following provides a description of the requirements: ‘active participation’ and ‘portfolio assessment’. Requirements must be met in both of these areas in order for students to receive a passing grade for the course.

Active participation

In order to ensure the educational results for each student, and to maintain continuity in the sport’ activities, we are dependent upon a consistent number of students attending each lesson. Consequently, one assessment requirement is 80 % active participation. The absence rate is calculated at the end of the course. If the absence rate exceeds 20%, the student will not be assessed for the course.

The students are responsible for keeping track of their own attendance rate. They may do so by consulting the absence list kept by the course instructor. The list will seldom be completely up-to-date, because absence is totalled and reported after each course. Students must make allowance for this fact when checking their absences.

Portfolio requirements

Three reports will be submitted during the study period. Students will be informed about the deadline for each report at the beginning of the semester.

The portfolio will be assessed based on these two criteria:

• How efficiently the student has employed, organised and analysed topical themes and approaches from the practical instruction.
• The degree to which the student has related relevant themes and approaches to the recommended syllabus literature and/or other pertinent literature.

A grade will be assigned for each report. All three reports must receive a passing grade in order to receive a grade for the course.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean