2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Special Lecture: Sports Science
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Takeo Maruyama
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.T115
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Science and Technology contribute sports performance.
In this class research contents and methods of Biomechanics and Sports Engineering will be lectured.
Also the contribution of Biomechanics and Sports Engineering to enhancement of sports performance will be introduced.
Aims of this class are to understand relationship of Engineering and Science with Sports Science and to discuss applied possibility of your own expertise.
Course description and aims
Students will learn the following skills from taking this course.
1) Be able to learn methods of Biomechanics and Sports Engineering
2) Be able to understand relationship of Engineering and Science with Sports Science
3) Be able to discuss applied possibility of your own expertise
Keywords
Biomechanics, Sports Engineering, Sports Performance
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In this class, students listen lecture from professor for 90 minutes and review for 10 minutes
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Sports and Science | Understand the contribute of science to sports |
| Class 2 | Biomechanics and its methodology | Understand research contents and methods in Biomechanics |
| Class 3 | Biomechanics and enhancement of sports performance | Understand the contribute of Biomechanics to enhancement of sports performance |
| Class 4 | Sports Engineering and its methodology | Understand research contents and methods in Sports Engineering |
| Class 5 | Science of Sports equipment | Understand relationship between development of sports equipment and Sports Engineering |
| Class 6 | Mechanics of Muscle | Understand mechanics of Muscle |
| Class 7 | Science of Training | Understand the trainig science with Biomechaniccs and Sports Engineering |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are required summary and response about every lecture and encouraged to understand contents of lecture.
Textbook(s)
None required
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handout of lecture will be distributed.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Summary and response in every class: 70%
Final report: 30%
Related courses
- LAW.W111 ： Laboratory of Health Science
Prerequisites
None required.