Motor Development and Ageing (UniSA)

Undergraduate | 2026

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HLTH 1052
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Course ID
207017
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Adelaide City Campus East
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Undergraduate
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6
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School of AH & HP
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1
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No
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Course overview

This course will provide an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of human growth and motor development across the lifespan with a focus on exercise, health and sport. Models of lifelong human development; developmentalist terminology; transactional models of motor development; physical, cognitive and psychosocial changes across 5 key life stages (conception to 5 years; childhood; adolescence; early and middle adulthood; late life); the influence of social determinants of health on growth and development; the influence of physical activity and exercise on lifespan, growth development and ageing.

Course learning outcomes

  • Describe the basic principles of human growth, development and behaviour across the lifespan in terms of physical, psychosocial and cognitive changes.
  • Describe the difference between chronological and biological age and implications of these factors across the lifespan.
  • Analyse and evaluate evidence based physical activity and exercise principles affecting growth, motor development, pregnancy, and ageing.
  • Apply the social determinants of health that affect growth and development across the lifespan.

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