Students shall dedicate themselves to acquiring research based knowledge about the central motivational processes and constructs that have meaning for children and adults taking part in physical activity, exercise and sport. Students shall acquire sport psychological knowledge and insight into promoting the motivation of individuals within learning, achievement and health contexts.

Knowledge
The students should know:

• general understanding of the process of motivation;
• general understanding of the major approaches to motivation in sport and exercise

Skills
Students should know:

• how to interpret motivation research;
• how to develop basic but appropriate motivation interventions;
• how to design learning environments to optimize motivation
  

Classes will go through the whole of the Autumn semester. The structure of the course will be a combination of formal lectures and discussion, some individual and group work that will be student driven, and presentation of projects.

Individual written projects - Pass/fail. Students choose the projects, and the written responses have a limit of 1800 words (approximately 5 pages with one and half line spacing).

All papers submitted via Fronter will be run through Ephorus for plagiarism control.

Individual written exam - Graded 2 hours.

Recourses/materials which may be used in the exam: None

Main textbook:
Jowett, S. & Lavallee, D. (Eds.). (2007). Social psychology in sport. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics.
You will find the book in the Library here: BIBSYS Ask

Additional readings will be communicated to the students at course start.
Readings will be around 600 pages in total.