The internship activity aims to provide the fundamental knowledge of hygienic issues in motor and sport facilities, included control strategies for biological risks.

The regular practice of physical activity helps to maintain and recover psychophysical health; however, for a real benefit, physical activity should be practiced under sanitary control and in healthy environments.

Sport facilities, as indoor, and sometimes crowded, environments, can be a source of microbiological risks. Indeed, people attending sport facilities can be exposed to infections and diseases, and responsible microbial species may survive and multiply in those environments.

Microbial detection in water, air and surfaces is commonly carried out by means of culture-based microbiological methods, followed by biochemical and serological confirmation tests.

The internship activity proposed focuses about strategies to control the microbiological risk and application of cultural methods to detect pathogenic (or potentially pathogenic) microorganisms in sport related environments.

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Knowledge and understanding – Students would be able to acquire knowledge and understanding of biological risk conditions and critical parameters to be monitored in motor and sport facilities.

Applying knowledge and understanding – Students would be able to develop ability to apply methods and devices to obtain and evaluate microbiological data and to control biological environmental risks in working sport facilities, including those carried out as facility head responsible for safety.

Making judgements – Students would be able to apply judgements criteria for the evaluation of risks related to the presence of microbial species in motor and sport facilities.

Communication skills - Students would be able to communicate the existence of biological risks and related control and prevention strategies.

Learning skills - Students would be able to develop personal learning capacities related to biological risk evaluation in motor and sport facilities, by means of bibliographic research and information available on official websites.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

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Teaching

Practical activities in sport facilities and in laboratory.

Attendance

Minimum mandatory attendance: 2/3 of total practice lessons. As to the practical activities attendance is intended as the active participation to the lesson.

Course books

Students are advised to consult teaching material present on the Moodle Blended Learning platform

Assessment

Learning assessment will be carried out through a final test about program content, consisting in a written exam with open questions, multiple choice, true/false.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Attendance

Minimum mandatory attendance: 2/3 of total practice lessons. As to the practical activities attendance is intended as the active participation to the lesson.

Course books

Students are advised to consult teaching material present on the Moodle Blended Learning platform

Assessment

Learning assessment will be carried out through a final test about program content, consisting in a written exam with open questions, multiple choice, true/false.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.