UNIL - Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences
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Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences at Coursera Overview
Duration | 14 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences at Coursera Highlights
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- Approx. 14 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences at Coursera Course details
- The objective of this course is to encourage a critical understanding of doping. To achieve this goal, this course will rely on a multidisciplinary approach that allow you to see how different disciplines get into a single object, in different perspectives and in often complementary ways. This approach will also allow us to appreciate the complexity of a subject like doping.
- Doping in sports is a complex practice whose definition and identification is the result of socially and historically constructed norms.
- This course offers to shed light on the processes that led to the use and prohibition of doping substances. Performance enhancement or physical transformation are two aspects of doping which are seen as problematic, yet even as we speak companies are making fortunes selling body improvement and other forms of ?human enhancement? to us. These apparent contradictions will be analysed to show that beyond sanitary questions, doping raises many social, scientific and legal issues.
- In efforts to control doping, governments and sports authorities have put into place institutions responsible for defining what falls into the category of doping, but also what prevention, repressions and research methods to put into effect. This course will also explore biological control measures such as the biological passport, key legal dimensions, organisations that produce performance, as well as the sociological dimensions of doping.
- Besides the Professors of University of Lausanne, the best experts of doping are involved in this course: experts from an Anti-doping Laboratory (LAD- Lausanne-Switzerland), from the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport), from the UEFA (soccer), and from the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency).
- Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Q3eR_g7rU
- Main Learning Outcomes
- At the end of the course the participants will be able to :
- 1. Identify the ?cultural? dimension of doping, that is as a historical practice linked to the transformation of social norms,
- 2. Go from a binary way of thinking - for or against doping - to an understanding of the complexity of this phenomenon which is biological, psychological and sociological, all at the same time,
- 3. Recognize the institutions, the actors and the practices of the fight against doping,
- 4. Explain how the social and organisational context influences individuals decisions and how this influence can be reduced by effective prevention measures,
- 5. Identify how the fight against doping is led and how testing is carried out.
Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences at Coursera Curriculum
Module 1- What is doping ?
General Introduction
Introduction to Module 1
1- Defining doping
2- Substance use ordinary practice
3- The emergence of norms
4- Stabilising legal norms
Conclusion of module 1
Syllabus
Discussion Forums guidelines
Meet and greet forum instructions
Facebook group Doping: Sports, Organisation and sciences
Teaching staff
Field experts
Development team
Module 1 Learning Outcomes
Suggested discussion
References
Module 1 Quiz
Module 2- Why do athletes give in to doping?
Introduction to Module 2
1- Why do athletes give in to doping ?
2- Becoming a bodybuilder and using prohibited substances
3- Bodybuilder's attitude towards risk
4- The socialisation of cyclists and pharmacologies
5- Cyclists' careers and doping
6- The emergence of norms that define doping- Part I
7- The emergence of norms that define doping- Part II
Conclusion of Module 2
Module 2 Learning Outcomes
Suggested discussion
References
Module 2 Quiz
Module 3 - Organizations and doping: prevention and repression
Introduction to Module 3
1-The role of the World Anti-Doping Agency
2-The UEFA's doping policies
3- The role of the CAS
4- Doping prevention policies in cycling
Conclusion of Module 3
Module 3 Learning Outcomes
Suggested discussion
References
Additional documents on Wada and anti-doping agencies
Module 3 Quiz
Module 4 - Bioanalytical and forensic approaches to doping
Introduction to Module 4
1- How accredited laboratories work and how bioanalyses are carried out
2- The biological passport and longitudinal approaches
3-ADAMS -Web-base database management system
4- The forensic approach to doping
5- Atypical analysis results and the future of the fight against doping
Conclusion of Module 4
General Conclusion
Module 4 Learning Outcomes
Suggested discussion
References
Final Assignment instructions
Module 4 Quiz
Final Assignment
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