ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Program Presentation - Sciences of Human Movement 
 

The Postgraduate Program in Human Movement Sciences (PGP-HMS), with Master Degree and PhD courses, was recommended with GRADE 4 by the Improvement Coordination of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, in Portuguese) during the 140th Meeting of the Technical Council Science of Higher Education (TCS-HE), held from October 22 to 26 from 2012.

The Postgraduate Program in Human Movement Sciences (PGP-HMS) was constituted from a solid trajectory in the institutional scenario and in Brazilian Postgraduate Studies, originated from the Master Degree in Physiotherapy and Physical Education courses of the, until then, Faculty of Health Sciences/UNIMEP.

The PGP-HMS has as its object of study the Human Movement and was structured on an Area of Concentration and three Lines of Research.

Area of Concentration - Human Movement, Biodynamics and Sociocultural Studies

Research lines:

1 - Physiology, biomechanics and sports training;

2 - Evaluation and functional rehabilitation;

3 - Pedagogy of movement, leisure and health.

 

Target Audience

The Postgraduate Program in Human Movement Sciences offers Academic Master Degree and PhD courses to professionals in the areas of Physical Education, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nutrition, Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Psychology, Education and related areas. The human movement, through the interdisciplinary, is potentially capable of contributing to improving the quality of life, promoting healthy habits and fully participating in society. Thus, the need for strategies, actions and public policies that meet the growing demand for highly qualified professionals is evident.

Goals

• To produce knowledge related to the Sciences of Human Movement;

• To contribute to the development of teaching, research and extension on human movement in the interdisciplinary dimension;

• Development of human resources to work in higher education and other segments of society;

• To disseminate research carried out through publications of works in national and international journals, books, chapters, channels of national and international scientific events, of proven relevance in the area; as well as through participation in meetings of scientific societies, always seeking to interact and contribute to the development and scientific improvement in Physical Education, Physiotherapy and related areas.

 

Subjects and Syllabus in English

 

MANDATORY SUBJECTS FOR THE MASTER’S DEGREE

Subject: HIGH EDUCATION METHODOLOGY
Syllabus: Characteristics and particularities of students and instructors at High Education in Brazil. The role of the university: instruction, research and extension. The process of initial and progressive formation of professors, having as its basic axis the relations between theory and practices. Teaching and learning process, strategies and fundaments of teaching with and to adults. The practice and production of knowledge: issue and investigation methods. The use of new technologies at high education. Planning and evaluation of the teaching process and performance.

 

Subject: Methodology of the applicate research to biodynamic (mandatory for the master’s degree on the research lines: Physiology, Biomechanics and Sportive Training; and Evaluation and Functional Rehabilitation).
Syllabus: Discussion about methodology of scientifical research, emphasizing mainly models of study at health area, as well as the conception and elaboration of research project.

 

Subject: Methodology of applicate research to human being and its relations with culture and education (mandatory for the research line “Movement Pedagogy, Leisure and Health”).
Syllabus: The human sciences and the nature sciences. Methodology of research in human science area. Scientifical methods. Anthropological research. Research definition and delimitation: issue, objective, hypothesis and results. Data collection methods. Data interpretation. Ethnographic methods.

 

EXCLUSIVE SUBJECT FOR THE MASTER’S DEGREE

Subject: Research topics in human movement sciences.
Syllabus: Study of methodological aspects relates to the researches, considering evaluation approaches and intervention at human movement sciences.

 

OPTATIVE SUBJECTS

Subject: Adapted Sports, physical activity and population at risk.
Syllabus: Opportunities to practice of physical activity in populations at risk: people with disabilities, first and second childhood, elders and people with clinical alterations. Necessary care to the physical activity in populations at risk. Paralympic sports.

Subject: Aging, locomotor system and the answers to physical exercise.
Syllabus: The study of alterations on the locomotor system (bones, joints and skeletal muscles) during the process of aging, of the effects morphophysiological promoted by physical exercise in elderly individuals, healthy ones or those with chronical diseases.

Subject: Artificial intelligence applied to the health area.
Syllabus: Study of the artificial intelligence basis. Fuzzy logical. Artificial neural nets, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and human movement analysis.

Subject: Bioenergetics
Syllabus: The study of different muscular fibers and its histological, biochemical and metabolic structures, and the metabolic pathways in different sportive modalities. The approach over the relation between metabolism, nutrition and athletes’ performance.

Subject: Biomechanical of Human Movement.
Syllabus: Kinetic, kinematics and electromyographic assessment of the human movement on the world of work, sport and daily routine of different populations. Different biomechanical methods for analysis of human movement.

Subject: Biostatistics
Syllabus: The study and application of the statistic descriptive and inductive method. The use of computational resources. Studies related to the application of the statistic methodology to data production, description and analysis.

Subject: Cardiorespiratory parameters related to the rehabilitation and to physical exercise.
Syllabus: The study of cardiorespiratory parameters and its relation with assessment and intervention applied to rehabilitation and physical exercise.

Subject: Child learning and development. 
Syllabus: Principles of motor learning; the movement and the different aspects of child development. Theorical basis of child development assessment.
Evaluation to screening and diagnosis. Study of different tests for the assessment of motor behavior and for the environment assessment.

Subject: Collective health and human movement.
Syllabus: The concept of health promotion. Public politics of health. Unique System of Health (SUS). Reference and matrix support teams. Assessment of the physical aptitude related to health. Physical activities programs.

Subject: Ethical in research
Syllabus: The ethical as a set of guiding principles of scientifical research. Natural sciences and human sciences and the research ethics. The researcher’s conduct in field work and experiments with human and animals. Orientations to work submission to the Research and Ethics Committee (CEP).

Subject: Independent studies in chronical and non-communicable diseases.
Syllabus: Discuss physical activity, physical exercise programs and chronical non-communicable diseases.

Subject: Infant Motor Development
Syllabus: The study of the motor development in the pre, peri and postnatal periods. Influences over the maturational process, the physical growth and the environment of postural control, in the fine motor skills and locomotion.

Subject: Leisure theory, contemporaneity and its relation with the human movement.
Syllabus: The interdisciplinarity and the leisure study. Multidisciplinary approach with leisure: concept, values and contents; social-cultural barriers; cultural animation and participation; the relations with work and the process of industrialization and urbanization. Leisure and the classics. Leisure and contemporaneity. Leisure, Body and Movement.

Subject: Markers of muscular damage and physical exercise
Syllabus: The subject will cover the factors and mechanisms involved with muscular damage in response to physical exercise and its relation with the direct/indirect markers. Cellular alterations: sarcomere structural; in the cell membrane; organelles, proteins and in the DNA. Systems of regeneration and the protector effect of muscle cells.

Subject: Muscular plasticity and Physical Exercise.
Syllabus: Understand the skeletal muscle as one of the most dynamical and plastic of the human body. Therefore, it will approach topics about balance between the synthesis and degradation of proteins and modular factors of this process, as well as: mechanotransduction; intracell signaling pathways; myonuclei, myokines; nutritional state; mitochondrial/ribosomal biogenesis; diseases and among others.

Subject: Prevention and functional rehabilitation of the musculoskeletal system in different species.
Syllabus: The study of related aspects of intervention for the prevention and rehabilitation of the functionality of the musculoskeletal system, in different sportive modalities.

Subject: Physical activities at elderhood
Syllabus: The study of frailty syndrome (the elders non-frail, pre-frail and frail), and the importance of physical activity as a preservation tool and/or improvement of the individual’s functional capacity.

Subject: Physiology of exercise.
Syllabus: To present the Exercise Physiology concepts. This subject will cover the following topics: bioenergetics, structure and function of de skeletal muscle, nervous control of movement, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, assessment of cardiorespiratory aptitude.

Subject: Quality of life and its cross-cutting themes.
Syllabus: Methods and technical of research in quality of life and its cross-cutting themes, as well as: smoking, stress, alcoholism, sedentarism, degenerative chronical diseases, food culture, among others.

Subject: Sportive Training.
Syllabus: The subject covers the advanced contents of Sportive Training and its adjustments and adaptations to the different and specific biological systems, when submitted to the training of different biomotor capacities. The principles of the training will be approached, as well as the sportive periodization.

Subject: Topics about assessment and intervention applied to the cardiorespiratory system.
Syllabus: The study of methodological aspects related to the object of study of the research projects, considering the approaches of assessment and intervention of the cardiorespiratory system.

Subject: Topics about assessment and intervention applied to the musculoskeletal system.
Syllabus: The study of methodological aspects related to the object of study of the research project, considering resources directed to the assessment and intervention of the musculoskeletal system.

Subject: Topics in assessment and functional rehabilitation.
Syllabus: The study of assessment and human movement rehabilitation methods.