Course Description - Master of Sports Science/Sports Psychology

  • 17081135: Motor Behavior and Physical Performance [3 Credit Hours]

    This Course deals with motor behavior, its studying approaches, factors affecting it, and the detailed study of its basic dimensions. It also deals with the motor growth and development and its stages, motor control, in addition to information related to cognitive motor abilities, and how to evaluate and measure motor behavior, as well as the neurological and physiological processes associated with the process of skill learning and its role in organizing and developing motor behavior of the educated individual.


  • 17081133: The Applications of Psychological Skills in the Sport Field [3 Credit Hours]

    This course covers training the psychological skills of the coach in terms of the philosophy and goals of sports coaching as guides for the coach’s behavior, and developing communication skills with the players. It also deals with the definition of the psychological skills of the player and how to measure, develop and apply them such as: (mental perception, regulation of psychological energy, management of psychological pressure, control of focus and attention, self-confidence and goal building). It deals with the rehabilitation and role of the sports psychologist, the implementation of coaching programs for psychological skills in coaching situations and sports competitions, and the common problems and how to overcome them.


  • 17081105: Technological Applications in the Sports Field [3 Credit Hours]

    The course introduces students to the concept of technology in sports and applications field in various sports and scientific fields, as well as the preparation of educational software computerized and employment in the field of sports training, in addition to teaching the use of technology in teaching physical education and preparation of technological aids, and follow-up to the emerging programs and applications can be employed in service sports movement and associated areas.


  • 17081104: Sports Management [3 Credit Hours]

    This course examines the nature of management and its concept, administrative levels in sports institutions, the concept of organization and its principles, factors affecting the organizational structure of institutions, the type of organizational structures, the concept of motivation, its importance, forms, characteristics and applications, decision-making process and factors affecting it, in addition to the concept of leadership, its patterns and factors affecting it.


  • 17081120: Psychology of Coaching and Sports Competitions [3 Credit Hours]

    This course addresses the principles and skills of psychological preparation for players and the psychology of sports competitions. It also examines the role of the players psychological status on their success and failure. In addition, modern concepts such as ambition, positivity, consensual behavior and seriousness are also tackled.


  • 17081106: Research Seminar in Sports Sciences [3 Credit Hours]

    This course covers the basics of scientific research and its components and methods of documentation in the body of the study and in the list of references, and highlight the role of the student in the research and survey of scientific studies and research in the field of sports science and summarized, analyzed and presented and presented in a scientific manner according to specific criteria, in addition to preparing a plan search in the subject, identification designs on the master's letters and elements.


  • 17081102: Tests and Measurements in the Sports Field [3 Credit Hours]

    This course examines the basic concepts of tests and metrics and their uses in scientific research in the sports field, the methods for codifying and developing them, methods of managing and implementing them, the devices used in them, how to design test batteries and building standards and levels for physical and motor capabilities and anthropometric, physiological and psychological characteristics.


  • 17081134: Psychology of Playing and Motor Performance [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with the phenomenon of playing for people in general and for children in particular, the concept of playing and its nature, characteristics, importance and changes in developments throughout the successive stages of development that the individual is going through and their impact on his motor behavior, and the methods of its observation, measurement, registration, and factors affecting it. It also deals with the designs and principles of using programs to modify motor behavior and its forms with its fields.


  • 17081101: Sports Research Design and Theirs Statistical Methods [3 Credit Hours]

    This course examines the concept of statistical design, its objectives, principles, and types of designs using parametric and non-parametric statistical tests: variance analysis designs, heterogeneity designs, correlative studies, multiple regression analysis and multiple variance analysis, dependent variables, and the Chi-square, and methods of analyzing it using the Statistical Packages for The Social Sciences (SPSS).


  • 17081136: Sports Sociology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course addresses the basic concepts related to sporting and educational sociology and the interrelationship between them. It also deals with determining the importance of this science as a social system in the sports field, in addition to social and psychological factors that affect the effectiveness of sports groups. It also addresses the cognitive competencies associated with social habits and their characteristics and features of social interaction and team cohesion in the fields of physical education and sport.


  • 17081132: Studies in Sports Psychology [3 Credit Hours]

    This course deals with an introduction to sporting psychology, the personality and its dimensions, the concept of motivation and aggression and its theories, courage and boldness, the concept and types of the group, the concept of sporting talent, psychological attitudes and emotions, psychological pressures among athletes, psychological burning of athletes, psychological shock, and mental processes in sporting activity.


  • 17081103: Motor Learning and Performance (Motor Learning Theories) [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with introducing students to the concept of kinetic learning and the difference between teaching and learning, types of movements and mental processes in sports performance (attention / focus attention / perception / perception / thinking / creativity), the reaction and how kinetic response occurs, mathematical skill and factors affecting it and its conditions, classification and applications, Training scheduling its types and applications, feedback and its importance and applications in the mathematical field, motor control and theory of closed and open circuits, the dynamic program and its generalization, transmission of learning impact, brain dominance (learning between the two brain lobes), harmonic capabilities, methods of measuring learning, retention and its types, curves and learning plateau , The concept of processing information and memory.