Physical exercise and health

duration: 4 semesters
120 ECTS (72 mandatory and 0 optative in UCS; )
data de acreditação: 28/02/2013
prazo de acreditação(anos): 6
Establishment/DGES Codes: 0602/6125

Introduction

This Master aims is to train specialist technicians, who are able to respond adequately to the different needs that are associated with physical exercise and its implications in health and welfare. Thus, a Masters in Exercise and Health have the following objectives:

• Offer an expertise in the area of Exercise and Health

• Deepening the theoretical and practical knowledge of the relationship between exercise, health and healthy

lifestyles.

• Respond effectively to an increasingly urgent need for definite and specialized training in assessment,

exercise prescription for different target populations (healthy and patients with different diseases), the implementation of exercise programs, and monitoring these programs.

Professional Careers

The Master's Degree aims to train specialist technicians who are capable of providing an adequate response to the different needs that are associated with the practice of physical activity and its implication in the field of health and well-being. It is intended that with this course students may come to intervene in the prescription of exercise and organization of Exercise programs, either in gymnasiums and health clubs or in municipal councils and other institutions that promote physical exercise programs.

Associate Director(s)

Orlando de Jesus Semedo Mendes Fernandes
Pablo Carús

Gestor Académico

Vitória dos Anjos Bonito Guiomar

Plan of Studies

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