This course is offered by the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences. Key to this Sport, Health and Exercise Science course is its concentration on the overall aspects of sport and exercise and how they are important in promoting healthy lifestyles. The Sport, Health and Exercise Science course also explores how exercise can be beneficial for clinical rehabilitation and healthy aging. All students study 120 credits in each year of their degree. In addition to modules in the subject specific areas of Physiology, Psychology, Biomechanics, and Motor Control and Learning relating to each degree, there are three components common to all programmes:

Career Prospects This Sport, Health and Exercise Science course is ideal preparation for careers in public health e.g. sports therapy or physiotherapy, health/ fitness or leisure management, coaching and instruction, teaching, the armed or emergency services, youth work, research and management consultancy. All our courses will prepare you for a career as a sport scientist, working with squads of elite athletes and performers to fine tune their training; sport science research; working in the public health sector, for example in sports therapy or physiotherapy; or working in the health/fitness industry generally. Postgraduate study and a career in teaching (after completing a postgraduate certificate of education), research and lecturing is another vocational route. There are also some specific career opportunities for different degrees listed with the course details. Some School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science graduates simply use their academic qualification and the transferable skills that they have developed to work in management, the emergency services or to set up their own business.