| Life Sciences Foundation | 1 year leading to a 3 year degree course | This foundation course focuses on developing your scientific skills and knowledge including fundamental biological, biochemical, mathematical and academic skills. | This foundation year will enable you to progress on to any of our undergraduate Biosciences or Nutrition, Sport and Physical Activity degrees. |
| Undergraduate |
| Sport and Exercise Science | 3 year full-time, 6 years part-time | This degree provides the main scientific knowledge in the areas of physiology, psychology, biomechanics and nutrition to allow a good understanding of how to improve athletic performance and health. You will gain a variety of laboratory based-skills, such as maximal aerobic capacity testing, gas exchange measurement and blood lactate sampling, as well as field-based skills to test specific healthy and clinical populations in various environments. | - Exercise physiologist
- Personal trainer
- Professional sports club coach
- Sports therapist
- Sports nutritionist
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| Sport, Coaching and Physical Education | 3 year full-time, 6 years part-time | This degree is suitable for people with an interest in sports and physical activity, whether they want to work with sports professionals, explore physical education with students or improving the health and fitness of the general public. You will develop key coaching methodologies and have the opportunity to develop specialised coaching attributes and skills from both a practical and theoretical perspective. | - Sport coaching
- Sports development
- Community sport and recreation
- Professional sport
- Performance analyst
- Physical education teacher, and other teaching disciplines
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Sport, Physical Activity and Health Promotion
| 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time | On this degree you’ll focus on physical activity and applied exercise science, nutrition and health promotion and public health. You’ll develop the knowledge and practical skills including the ability to critically analyse existing sporting organisations and demonstrate an ability to apply strategic and development planning skills within sporting organisations.
| - Exercise referral specialist
- Physical activity coordination
- Health promotion officer
- Community projects and national governing body coaching
- Physiolology
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| Postgraduate taught |
| Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition | 1 year | This degree focuses on the role of nutrition in the optimisation of sport and exercise performance. You’ll develop theoretical and practical skills essential to monitoring athletic programmes, optimising sport performance and recovery from an exercise nutrition perspective.
| - Exercise referral
- Working with sports teams
- Assisting with food provision for athletes
- Nutrition consultant
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