Base Knowledge
N/A
Teaching Methodologies
Contents will be taught in presentation sessions, where their fundamental concepts will be explored. Sessions will be complemented with visits to sports facilities, guiding students to the comprehension of the various processes in sports facilities management.
Learning Results
1. Know the classification of the typologies of sport spaces and equipments.
2. Know the guidelines for the construction of sports facilities
3. Know the national regulamentation for the construction, management, and maintenance of a sports facility, as well as safety and security demands.
4. Know the management indicators for sport spaces and equipments and its various management models.
5. Know the maintenance actions in sport spaces and equipments.
6. Understand the economical aspects related with the management of sport equipments.
7. Understand the natural spaces as sports spaces.
Program
1. Natural and artificial sports spaces;
2. Classification of sports facilities;
3. Typology of sports facilities;
4. Decisional factors and indicators for the implementation of sports facilities;
5. The spaces within sports facilities;
6. Management of sports facilities;
7. Maintenance of sports facilities;
8. Economical aspects in sports facilities, spaces and equipments;
9. Natural sports spaces
10. Sports Management of the coast.
11. Conflicts in the use of natural and urban spaces for sports.
Curricular Unit Teachers
Grading Methods
- - Individual and/or Group Work - 50.0%
- - Frequency - 50.0%
- - Exam - 100.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
- Barreira, C. & Carvalho, A. (2006) Qualidade e conforto em instalações desportivas. Estudo de caso. Revista Portuguesa de Gestão do Desporto 3 (1) 104-116
- Cunha, L.M. (1997) O Espaço, O Desporto e o Desenvolvimento. Ed. Lisboa: FMH-UTL.
- Cunha, L.M. (2007) Os Espaços do Desporto – Uma Gestão Para o Desenvolvimento Humano. Coimbra: Almedina,
- Fried, N. (2005) Managing Sport facilities. Human Kinetics, Champaign
- Farmer, P., Mulrooney, A. & Ammon, R. (1996) Sport Facility Planning and Management. Morgantown: Fitness Information Technologies.
- Williams, A., & Micallef, A. (2009). Beach Management – Principles and Practice. London: Earthscan.
Nota: Esta UC também se socorrerá de legislação específica no âmbito dos espaços e instalações desportivas que, pela sua extensão, não é aqui apresentada.