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LTSE Policies & Frameworks Inherent Requirements Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science
Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science
JCU Inherent Requirements for Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science (70610,108310, 71610B, 111910, 112910)
Persons wishing to enrol in the Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science should read these requirements in conjunction with the course handbook.
Students should carefully consider the inherent requirements statement below as a guide to their learning during the course, and as a way to identify early possible challenges they may have in meeting these requirements.
Prospective students who remain interested or engaged in the course should discuss their concerns with College staff, such as the Course Coordinator, as soon as possible. If the challenges are related to a disability or health condition, students should contact AccessAbility Services to discuss possible strategies and reasonable adjustments.
If the inherent requirements cannot be met with reasonable adjustments, JCU staff may provide guidance regarding other study options.
Reasonable adjustments must:
- Be consistent with legislative and regulatory requirements, and not compromise codes, guidelines and policies
- Not result in unethical or unprofessional behaviour
- Meet the necessary standards of timeliness, accuracy and functional effectiveness to ensure that self and patient care, treatment or safety is not compromised
- Address the need to perform the full range of tasks involved in clinical practice, including undertaking learning activities in mixed gender environments, which reflect the Australian context, and
- Ensure that performance is consistent and sustained over a given period.
Legal
Inherent Requirement | Compliance with Australian Law and professional regulations. |
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Rationale | Knowledge, understanding, and compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements are necessary pre-requisites to professional placements in order to identify, manage and reduce the risk of harm to self and others. Compliance with professional regulations and the Australian Law ensures students are both responsible and accountable for their practice. |
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Ethical and professional behaviour
Inherent Requirement | Ethical and professional behaviour in academic and professional environments |
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Rationale | Compliance with standards, codes, guidelines and policies that facilitates safe, competent interactions and relationships for students and the people they engage with in the many environments of practice is required for the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of all. |
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Safe practice
Inherent Requirement | Compliance with safe practice sufficient to meet client care needs, including considerations of current scope of practice, workplace health and safety and infection control. |
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Rationale | Compliance with current scope of practice, workplace health and safety, infection control considerations and effective and timely response to alarm systems are required to provide safe environments for students, staff and others. |
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Cognition
Knowledge and cognitive skills
Inherent Requirement | Knowledge acquisition, utilisation and retention spanning and drawing together all coursework subjects. Cognitive skills for focus, memory, attention to detail, theoretical deliberation, and practical functioning sufficient to meet client care needs. |
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Rationale | Understanding and retention of coursework information and the effective processing of this information is required for appropriate, safe and effective delivery of care. |
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Metacognition
Inherent Requirement | Awareness of own thinking, and skills to reflect, evaluate, adapt and implement new cognitive strategies for improved learning and client care. |
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Rationale | Understanding and ongoing learning about oneself as an instrument in client care is required for safe and effective delivery of practice. |
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Literacy
Inherent Requirement | English literacy skills that allow the creation and interpretation of clear meaning for client care through a range of symbols and English language text. |
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Rationale | Client care information can be delivered by many different modes and competent literacy skills for these are essential to provide appropriate, safe and effective delivery of care/practice. |
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Numeracy
Inherent Requirement | Accurate processing and reasoning with numbers and numerical concepts for client care decisions. |
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Rationale | Competent reasoning and reliable accuracy with numerical concepts are essential for safe and effective care/practice. |
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Communication
Verbal communication
Inherent Requirement | Verbal communication in English to a standard that allows fluid, clear, and comprehensible two-way discussions for client care, tailored to the local English-speaking audiences. |
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Rationale | Effective verbal communication, in English, with clients, university and professional staff is required for effective learning and to provide safe and effective delivery of care/practice. |
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Non-verbal communication
Inherent Requirement | Non-verbal communication skills that enable respectful communication with others to meet client care needs. |
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Rationale | The ability to recognise, interpret and respond to non-verbal cues, to communicate with congruent and respectful non-verbal behaviour, and to be sensitive to individual and/or cultural variations in non-verbal communication is essential for safe and effective care. |
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Written communication
Inherent Requirement | Ability to produce English text to a standard that provides clear and professional-level communication for client care, with language usage and style tailored to the targeted recipients. |
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Rationale | Effective communication in English text is required to demonstrate applied skills in academic writing conventions and in sustained and organised academic argument and provide safe and effective delivery of care/practice. |
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Sensory ability
Visual
Inherent Requirement | Ability to interact with visual inputs sufficiently to manage learning environments and to meet client care needs. |
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Rationale | Elements in the working and learning environment are delivered by visual means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Auditory
Inherent Requirement | Ability to interact with auditory inputs sufficiently to manage learning environments and to meet client care needs. |
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Rationale | Elements in the learning and working environments are delivered by auditory means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Tactile
Inherent Requirement | Ability to respond to tactile input and provide appropriate tactile interaction sufficient to meet client care needs. |
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Rationale | Elements in the working and learning environment are detected and measured by tactile means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Motor ability
Gross motor ability
Inherent Requirement | Strength, range of motion, coordination and mobility sufficient to meet client care needs. |
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Rationale | A wide range of physical client care actions in a time-constrained environment is required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Fine motor ability
Inherent Requirement | Manual dexterity and fine motor skills sufficient to meet client care needs. |
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Rationale | A wide range of fine-motor manual tasks in a time-constrained environment are required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Sustained performance
Inherent Requirement | Sustained physical, cognitive and psychosocial performance sufficient to complete the required activities for the degree. |
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Rationale | A range of complex, multi-component or extended client care tasks carried out over a period of time and in a time-constrained environments is required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Behavioural adaptability
Inherent Requirement | Behaviour that adapts to changing situations sufficiently to maintain safe and complete client care, and instigates self-care consistent with professional expectations. |
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Rationale | Behavioural adaptation is required to manage personal emotional responses as an individual and within teams in changing and unpredictable environments, including emergency situations and times of human distress. Students will also be required to adapt their behaviour appropriately during times of additional stressors in their own lives, whether this adaptation involves ways of continuing to engage with their role or withdrawing for self-care for a period. |
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Inherent requirements statements index
Diploma of Health (Nursing Pathway)
Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
Bachelor of Exercise Physiology
Bachelor of Health Science (Physician Assistant)
Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Bachelor of Nursing Science, Bachelor of Midwifery
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours)
Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours)
Bachelor of Psychological Science
Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours)
Bachelor of Veterinary Science
Postgraduate Biomedical Sciences
Postgraduate Medicine and Dentistry
Postgraduate Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Postgraduate Veterinary Science
Bachelor of Clinical Sciences (Honours)
Graduate Certificate of Aeromedical Retrieval
- James Cook University
- Bachelor of Advanced Science
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
- Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Business / Laws
- Bachelor of Business & Environmental Science
- Bachelor of Dental Surgery
- Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
- Bachelor of Primary Education
- Bachelor of Secondary Education
- Bachelor of Environmental Practice
- Bachelor of Geology
- Bachelor of Information Technology
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Nursing Science (External)
- Bachelor of Midwifery
- Bachelor of Pharmacy
- Bachelor of Physiotherapy
- Bachelor of Planning
- Bachelor of Psychological Science
- Bachelor of Science
- Bachelor of Social Work
- Bachelor of Speech Pathology
- Bachelor of Sport & Exercise Science
- Bachelor of Veterinary Science
- Bachelor of Clinical Sciences (Honours)
- Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Bachelor of Engineering / Science (Honours) MBA in Tourism
- Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Master of Data Science
- Bachelor of Sports Psychology
- Bachelor of Marine Science
- Bachelor of Medicine / Surgery
- Bachelor of Nursing Science [Pre-Registration]
- Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science (Honours)
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours)
- Bachelor of Psychology
- Master of Conflict Management & Resolution
- Graduate Certificate of Conflict Management & Resolution
- Master of Global Development
- Master of International Tourism & Hospitality Management
- Bachelor of Technology and Innovation
- Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Laws
- Diploma of Higher Education
- Diploma of Higher Education (Business)
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Business Studies
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Engineering and Applied Science
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in General Studies
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Health
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Information Technology
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Science
- Diploma of Higher Education, Majoring in Society and Culture