2024
Sports Policies
Name: Sports Policies
Code: DES11426M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Human Kinetics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
It is intended that students:
- Know the main influences of sports policy in Portugal.
- Know what types of interests and objectives are behind the sports policies in the organization of major
events, sports organized by the municipalities and central government entities, deepening knowledge in the
Olympic sports, school sports and volunteering.
- Understand the mechanisms that underlie the organizational form of the different structures involved in the
management and provision of sporting events, the various institutions involved in the sports phenomenon.
- They can collect and interpret critically relevant scientific information on the topics addressed.
- What acquire the ability to communicate ideas and scientific knowledge, oral and written form, organized in a
coherent and logical issue about the scope of this Unit.
- Know the main influences of sports policy in Portugal.
- Know what types of interests and objectives are behind the sports policies in the organization of major
events, sports organized by the municipalities and central government entities, deepening knowledge in the
Olympic sports, school sports and volunteering.
- Understand the mechanisms that underlie the organizational form of the different structures involved in the
management and provision of sporting events, the various institutions involved in the sports phenomenon.
- They can collect and interpret critically relevant scientific information on the topics addressed.
- What acquire the ability to communicate ideas and scientific knowledge, oral and written form, organized in a
coherent and logical issue about the scope of this Unit.
Contents
1. Public sports policies
2. Local sports policies
3. Sports tourism
4. School sports
5. Volunteering in sport
2. Local sports policies
3. Sports tourism
4. School sports
5. Volunteering in sport
Teaching Methods
The unit is organized into lectures and tutorials according to the regulation school of the University of Évora.
Lectures are plenary and based on the scientific method, emphasizing the search for information, the
interpretation of experimental results and a critical and scientific rigor in students.
Evaluation: Students may choose an evaluation by a frequency or a final exam.
Telecommuting: Introduction of the fundamental theoretical concepts through resources available in Moodle
(lessons, various texts, PowerPoint presentations, websites, etc.). Student work will be guided by specific
objectives to be achieved in different contents.
Work in person: The practical skills will be acquired in person.
Lectures are plenary and based on the scientific method, emphasizing the search for information, the
interpretation of experimental results and a critical and scientific rigor in students.
Evaluation: Students may choose an evaluation by a frequency or a final exam.
Telecommuting: Introduction of the fundamental theoretical concepts through resources available in Moodle
(lessons, various texts, PowerPoint presentations, websites, etc.). Student work will be guided by specific
objectives to be achieved in different contents.
Work in person: The practical skills will be acquired in person.
Teaching Staff
- Mário Rui Coelho Teixeira [responsible]
Certificações
