The Online Course in Neuroscience Visual Skills Testing and Training provides you with the requisite skills to achieve and perform at your maximum potential as sportsperson or, alternatively, to affect these  outcomes  in  your  role  as  manager  or  medical  practitioner in  the  sport-related  professions.  The  course  will  enable  you  to design a personal vision programme tailored to specific activities, while you become familiar and understand the basic principles of neurophysiology, cerebrospinal fluids and special senses. The course also covers topics of anatomy and homeostasis, cells and tissues, muscle physiology, as well as the importance and application of sports vision testing.

This credit-bearing course provides you with an entry point to formal degree programmes exclusively presented by the University of Pretoria with credits afforded towards the specified degree module FLG211 (12 credits).

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to successfully evaluate and include visual skills as part of your performance index assessment.

* Successful completion of credit-bearing short courses entails that a candidate who otherwise complies with all the admission requirements for corresponding formal degree programmes – as published annually in the respective year faculty year books of the University of Pretoria – may upon registering for the formal programme obtain credits for the corresponding degree modules. Normal application processes for admission to formal programmes at the University of Pretoria must be followed. Certificates of successful completion of credit-bearing short courses issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria must be submitted during the application for recognition of allocated credits.

Module 1
• What is sports vision?
• Static vs dynamic visual acuity
• Basic anatomy and physiology of the eye
• Visual motor skills
• Visual perceptual skills
• Eye–hand and eye–foot coordination
• Peripheral awareness
• Body alarm reaction and sports vision
• Sports vision testing and evaluation
• Who benefits from sports vision training?

Module 2
• Basics of sports vision
• Sports vision laboratory
• Sports vision applications
• Static versus dynamic sports vision
• Training relationship between balance and vision

Module 3
• Designing a sports vision programme
• Setting up the programme
• Pre- and post-training
• Sports vision evaluation
• Sports vision equipment

Module 4
• Sports vision training exercises
• Loading focusing exercises
• Tracking exercises
• Vergence exercises
• Sequencing exercises
• Eye–hand and eye–foot coordination exercises
• Visualisation exercises directionality exercises

Module 5
• Sport-specific sports vision training exercises
• Sports vision training progression: 30 Days to better sports vision