Faculty of Health

HSE202 Biomechanics

Trimester 2, 2025

Welcome

This unit introduces students to the major biomechanical factors involved in movement, with a special focus on locomotion, sports technique and analysis. The material is presented with an emphasis on the qualitative analysis of motion and forces. The unit includes the examination of external forces, such as gravity, air resistance, and friction, and their role in human movement. Internal forces created by skeletal and muscular systems and their effect on the body and its movement will be discussed. Finally, the unit will address some practical applications in biomechanics through a video analysis of skill project. This Unit Guide provides you with the key information about this unit. Please read it carefully and refer to it frequently throughout the study period. Your unit site also provides information about your rights and responsibilities. We will assume you have read this before the unit commences, and we expect you to refer to it throughout the study period. To be successful in this unit, you must:

Read all materials in preparation for your learning activities, and follow up each with further study and research on the topic.

Start your assessment tasks well ahead of the due date.

Read or listen to all feedback carefully, and use it in your future work.

Attend and engage in all educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities and other learning experiences as part of the unit design.

Unit development in response to student feedback

Every Trimester, we ask students to tell us, through eVALUate, what helped and hindered their learning in each unit. You are strongly encouraged to provide constructive feedback for this unit when eVALUate opens (you will be emailed a link). In previous versions of this unit, students have told us that these aspects of the unit have helped them to achieve the learning outcomes:

"The assessment tasks were helpful to understand the key biomechanical principles and the practicals supported the assessment task well".

"The practical tasks allowed students to apply the theory covered in lectures".

The following aspects of the unit have been introduced, enhanced or retained in response to feedback from students who have undertaken this unit in previous trimesters:

We have transitioned from traditional online lectures to an interactive HTML format that supports self-paced and active learning.

Weekly online seminars have been added from weeks 2 to 10 to support students with the online content.

An additional week of practicals has been added to give students more supervised time to work on their group assignments.

If you have any concerns about the unit during the trimester, please contact the unit teaching team - preferably early in the trimester - so we can discuss your concerns, and make adjustments, if appropriate.

Learning Outcomes

Each unit in your course is a building block towards Deakin's Graduate Learning Outcomes - not all units develop and assess every Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO).