Course Description - PhD of Sports Training and Movement Sciences

  • 18032203: Physical Fitness and Its Practical Applications [3 Credit Hours]

    This course explores the concept of skill-related physical fitness, its importance, components, measurement methods, and development strategies. It guides students in designing fitness programs for both the general population and athletes and introduces prominent international fitness programs. The course emphasizes improving physical qualities and abilities through various physical activities that support skills in different sports.


  • 18032209: Artificial Intelligence and Sports Training [3 Credit Hours]

    This course focuses on the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in sports training. It analyzes modern technologies and their roles in enhancing athletic performance, managing training, and making strategic decisions. It provides in-depth knowledge on utilizing AI in sports planning, performance evaluation, and data analysis. The course aims to understand AI principles, explore its role in developing training strategies, preventing and recovering from injuries, making evidence-based decisions using AI tools, and discussing the ethical challenges associated with AI in sports.


  • 18030105: Modern Sports Management Systems [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to equip students with an understanding of modern principles of organization and human resource management in the sports field. It includes preparing public relations programs and using modern marketing methods for sports investment, as well as developing personnel management and time management programs. The course also covers recent studies in management and public relations within physical education and sports.


  • 18030106: Modern Technological Techniques in Sport Sciences [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to familiarize students with the concept of modern technological techniques such as nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing in sport sciences, and their applications across various scientific and athletic fields. It also includes the design and implementation of computerized software and its application in the sports domain.


  • 18032210: Injuries and Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System [3 Credit Hours]

    This course addresses the main stages of sports injuries and how to manage them. It covers diseases of the skeletal system, joints, and ligaments, as well as various muscular injuries and selected conditions that affect physical activity. The course also discusses injuries and diseases of the nervous system and their direct impact on physical performance, along with suitable rehabilitation programs to manage such injuries and conditions.


  • 18032208: Special Population Sports Programs [3 Credit Hours]

    This course focuses on designing and implementing motor and sports programs for special populations, including athletes with disabilities, vegetarian athletes, women's sports, military fitness, programs for both young and elderly individuals, and physical activity programs for people with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as those with obesity.


  • 18032206: Psychology of Training and Sports Competitions [3 Credit Hours]

    This course addresses psychological preparation principles and skills for athletes and explores the psychology of sports competitions, including psychological conflict and its effects, emotions and their relationship to success and failure, interests, attitudes, achievement motivation, and the psychology of reward and punishment in sports. It also discusses modern concepts such as ambition, positivity, adaptive behavior, and seriousness.


  • 18032201: Structuring and Planning of Sports Training [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enable students to understand the training status of athletes and methods for its development. It explores physical characteristics and their relationship to the training process, as well as how to structure and regulate external training loads for both elite and youth athletes. The course also covers planning sports training for the present and future, examining the physiological aspects of the training process, physical load, and adaptation in sports training. In addition, it introduces the use of modern technologies and techniques to enhance performance and achieve sports excellence.


  • 18030104: Applications of Motor Learning and Performance [3 Credit Hours]


  • 18032202: Physiology of Physical Effort and Sports Performance [3 Credit Hours]

    This course covers the physiological principles of sports training and performance. It focuses on the physiological responses and adaptations of internal body systems to physical exertion and their role in athletic performance. The course also addresses the chemical changes associated with exertion, energy systems and their impact on performance, various training methods, and both laboratory and field physiological tests and their relevance to sports achievement.


  • 18030102: Research Models in Sports Science [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to highlight the student's role in researching and investigating scientific studies and research in the field of sports science, summarizing, analyzing, critiquing, and presenting them in a scientific manner according to specific standards. Additionally, the course focuses on preparing a research proposal on a given topic and familiarizing students with the structure and components of doctoral dissertations.


  • 18032207: Nutrition and Sports Performance [3 Credit Hours]

    This course covers proper sports nutrition and its role in athletic achievement. It discusses nutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, fats), designing specialized nutrition programs for athletes, and weight control. It explores the role of body energy in performance, types and negative effects of doping substances, detection methods, available alternatives, and the role of dietary supplements in athletic performance.


  • 18030101: Planning and Structuring of Sports Training [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enable students to select and apply appropriate parametric and non-parametric statistical tests to examine hypotheses in sports science research involving experimental, quasi-experimental, descriptive-analytical, and correlational designs, using suitable statistical analysis software. In addition, it equips them with the skills to organize and write the statistical report within the research.


  • 18030103: Applications of Measurement and Testing in Sport Sciences [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to enable students to utilize fundamental and up-to-date knowledge and information about measurement, testing, and evaluation in sport sciences. It also seeks to familiarize them with modern tools, devices, and technologies used for data collection in the field, explaining their purpose and how to use them. Additionally, the course aims to equip students with the ability to design and develop tests and data collection tools in various domains such as physical, physiological, psychological, skill-based, cognitive, and others, as well as methods for their theoretical and statistical standardization and application to a standardization sample.


  • 18032204: Personal Trainer [3 Credit Hours]

    This course introduces the concept of the personal trainer and covers the fundamentals of resistance training and biomechanics of exercise performance. It also includes training for children and older adults, as well as addressing movement issues such as neck pain, back pain, and knee problems. The course involves conducting an applied research study in a specific area of personal training.


  • 18032205: Movement Analysis and Sports Performance [3 Credit Hours]

    This course reviews supportive materials for human motor performance and studies both internal and external biomechanics. It covers practical applications involving body parts and segments during movement, including modeling human motion and exercises in sports or daily life. It also analyzes common mechanical errors, introduces motion analysis software, and involves conducting an applied research study using these tools.