The Sport and Exercise Science degree (and Sport Performance/Exercise & Health routes) at Canterbury Christ Church University aims to explore industries such as biomechanics, nutrition, and sport psychology, and prepare students for a range of sectors with an inter-disciplinary structure.
The course covers the fundamentals of exercise science with a focus on psychology, biomechanics, sociology, and physiology. This multi-functional approach facilitates competence and confidence in a variety of skills, including research-methods, client interaction, and understanding the varied factors when it comes to physical activity participation.
The degree aims to opens up roles in sport, physical activity and health, administration and research, and health and fitness publishing, as well as the expanding leisure industry. In addition, it provides an excellent foundation for careers in the public sector, including the medical professions (cardiac rehabilitation, physiotherapy, health promotion, and medical sales), whilst both the armed and police forces have looked favourably upon our graduates.
Successful completion of the degree can open up routes into teaching, such as a PGCE (Physical Education), and will also prepare students for further postgraduate study at all levels through to PhD.
The Sport & Exercise Science course (and routes) aims are to ensure that by the end students have developed:
1. Critical mindedness specific to sport & exercise science, including a deep theoretical understanding of human responses to sport, exercise and physical activity across the fundamental disciplines of Sport & Exercise Science.
2. Professional and graduate skills commensurate to broad career paths, through an academically rigorous curriculum based on the constituent sub-disciplines of biomechanics, physiology, psychology and sociology, together with research methods.
3. Practical competencies across the principle disciplines of Sport & Exercise Sciences.
4. Analytical skills to critically appraise and evaluate data in sport, exercise and physical activity.
