BSc (Hons) SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE (WITH FOUNDATION YEAR)

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

If you love sport and want to help others get the most out of their abilities and talents, then this course is ideal for you. It’s perfect if you want a degree in this area but you don’t meet the standard entry requirements.

In your Foundation Year, you will study the fundamental skills and knowledge needed for you to achieve success on your degree. You will study alongside Foundation Year students from all our Sports courses and learn from our dedicated team of sports academics. At the end of the year, you will even have the chance to progress on to a different sports degree if you wish.

We are making swift strides towards our aim of becoming London’s number one university for sport. This extended course is perfect if you want a degree in Sport and Exercise Science but you don’t meet the standard entry requirements.

First we prepare you for your degree during the Foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. Then you can go on to do the full undergraduate degree.

On the BSc course you’ll be examining the role that biomechanics, physiology, psychology and nutrition play in human performance. You’ll also look at how these disciplines interact, so you receive the complete education a multi-disciplinary sports scientist needs.

You will have the chance to study optional subjects that give our course its special flavour – such as our module in disability sport.

It is a course that has attracted some of Britain’s leading sportsmen and women of the day such as European 200m champion Adam Gemili, Commonwealth 200m bronze medallist Bianca Williams and double European and Commonwealth medal-winning swimmer Aimee Willmott. It also develops the sports scientists and teachers who’ll help deliver the champions of tomorrow.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Docklands Campus, University Way, E16 2RD

Start date

On request

About this course

We’ve worked hard to make this course as flexible as possible and you’ll discover we’ve found a pretty good balance between learning theory and actually seeing what that looks like in practice.

The beauty of sharing a first year with your colleagues from our Sports Coaching and Sport, Physical Education and Development courses is that you can swap to one of those courses at the end of year one if you wish.

In year two, you’ll complete a mixture of compulsory and optional modules. The options include Disability, Sport & PE, Principles & Practice in Teaching & Coaching and Inclusion in Youth Sport & PE.

For your final-year project, there’s more scope to specialise, allowing you to focus on areas of particular interest to you.

For instance, one of our students studied the coaching philosophy of Saracens Rugby Union Club. Another went to Leyton Orient to research how football goalkeepers distribute the ball after collecting it in their area. This fascinating study led to him becoming a match analyst at the club after graduating.

A host of exciting career avenues in the sporting and teaching worlds will open up to you once you graduate, but the great thing about our course is that you may find they open up to you even while you’re studying for your degree.

That’s because our work placements and the relationships we have built with sports organisations and schools are so strong.

They’re optional and flexible placements, which means you can choose your best time to undertake them. We have strong links with football clubs such as Leyton Orient, West Ham and Millwall and various sports academies and schools.

We’ve had students working at activeNewham, the sports arm of our local council, London Sport and the Olympic Park, which is right on our doorstep in Stratford. In some cases, these placements lead to full-time jobs. For instance, Oktay Huseyin was placed at a tennis academy in Essex and is now the head of strength and conditioning there.

Some of you will go on to further study, like one of Dr Buscombe’s students who did an extraordinary third-year project on spirituality and fandom in Lithuanian basketball. She’s now studying the same subject for her PhD in Melbourne.

Our graduates have gone on to work for employers as varied as the National Basketball Association (NBA), Leyton Orient FC and the London Borough of Newham.

We’ve produced coaches, fitness club managers, personal trainers, private and community coaches and teachers. We even managed to find one of our students, Marshall Tutu, some tennis opportunities between his studies. Now he’s playing as a full-time professional.

Must include passes at A2 in at least 1 subject
Extended Diploma or Diploma
Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level

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FOUNDATION YEAR (IF REQUIRED)

If you don’t meet the entry requirements for a bachelor’s degree, you can study this course as an ‘extended’ four-year programme. You’ll begin with a foundation year, which will prepare you for a successful transition to the degree course a year later.By the end of the degree you’ll gain the same qualification as those obtaining direct entry to the course but you’ll take one year longer to complete your studies.
  • Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology
  • Sports Development & Coaching
  • Physical Health & Wellbeing in Sport
  • Psychological Influences on
  • Health & Wellbeing in Sport & Physical Activity
  • Academic & Communication Skills in Sports
  • Career and Professional Development in Sports (Mental Wealth)
  • Work Placement
YEAR 1
  • Essential Skills for Sport (Mental Wealth)
  • Anatomy & Physiology for Sport
  • Coaching Principles
  • Development of Sport
  • Human Performance
  • Psychological Aspects of Sport
YEAR 2
  • Physiological and Nutritional Assessment for Sports Performance
  • Principles & Practice in Teaching & Coaching
  • Sport Training Courses
  • Research Methods & Design (Mental Wealth)
  • Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Biomechanics of Human Movement
  • Athlete Management
  • Performance Analysis
YEAR 3
  • Applied Research Project in Sport (Mental Wealth)
  • Applied Sport Psychology
  • Applied Teaching Practice
  • Exercise Physiology Techniques
  • Sport and Exercise Biomechanics
  • Work Placement (Practice)
  • Chronic Health Conditions
  • Strength and Conditioning
  • Nutrition for Sporting Health
  • Entrepreneurship and Enterprise

BSc (Hons) SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE (WITH FOUNDATION YEAR)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.