2025

Kinanthropometry

Name: Kinanthropometry
Code: DES15023L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Human Kinetics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. Recognize the applications of kineanthropometry in health, sport and human development;
2. Describe the stages of growth and development throughout life;
3. Apply methods and instruments in the evaluation of anthropometric measurements;
4. Use anthropometric measurements to classify somatotypes of different morphological profiles;
5. Analyze and contrast anthropometric indicators between the sexes throughout life;
6. Know, prepare and apply body composition assessment methods;
7. To know, prepare and apply methods for assessing the maturational level through anthropometric indicators;
8. Identify secular growth trends and understand the key factors influencing them.

Contents

1. Introduction to Kineanthropometry
a. Concepts
b. Applications in health, sport and human development
2. Human Growth
a. Human Growth Patterns
b. Lifelong Growth and Development
3. Anthropometric Assessment
a. Anthropometric Measurements
4. Morphological Typology
a. Somatotype
b. Evaluation methods
c. Sexual dimorphism
5. Body Composition
a. Templates
b. Indices and indicators
c. Evaluation Methods
6. Maturation
a. Evaluation Methods
b. Maturational variation
c. The Effect of Relative Age
d. Factors That Regulate and Affect Growth and Maturation
7. Secular Trend of Growth and Maturation

Teaching Methods

This course will use different methodologies for each type of class. For the theoretical classes, the contents (1, 2 and 7) will be approached in a flipped logic, presenting autonomous study contents, which will be discussed in groups and seeking to include previous learning from other CUs. The contents (4, 5 and 6) will be addressed through the presentation of problems related to the theme, for which students should present methodologies and strategies for the collection of information and evaluation of the different dimensions addressed. All contents will also be complemented with periods of information exposure, whenever justified. In the theoretical-practical classes, experimental methods will be used for the manipulation of anthropometric instruments and collection of variables. The collection of anthropometric indicators in external populations for the application of specific methodologies will also be proposed – contents 4, 5 and 6.

Assessment

The assessment will be divided into two components – Written Assessment and Practical Assessment. The written assessment will focus on the knowledge acquired, and will take the form of two Written Frequencies. The practical evaluation will focus on the application of the methods approached, and will result from the construction of session reports and an individual practical test for the evaluation of anthropometric measurements. The written evaluation will have a weight of 40% in the final grade and the practical evaluation will have a weight of 60%.

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