Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Sports Science)

Are you interested in health, fitness and general well-being? If you like the idea of helping other people improve their lifestyle or sports performance through exercise, you should explore a career in Exercise Science.

This degree will prepare you for a variety of professional roles - you could work with elite sportspeople, promote health in the community, work in corporate health or a wide range of other exciting environments The course will give you the skills to design, implement and evaluate programs targeted at improving general health and well-being, helping to prevent or reduce the impact of chronic disease and enhancing athletic performance.

You can also specialise in a related field, with majors in Football Performance, Health Promotion, Nutrition, Occupational Safety and Health and Sport Business helping broaden your career prospects. You can also use this course as a pathway to further study in areas such as clinical exercise physiology, education, dietetics and strength and conditioning coaching.

You can study units for this degree on-campus with weekly lectures and laboratories or through a blended format that involves weekly online content, such as lectures, laboratories, tutorials and/or seminars, accompanied by timetabled, intensive on-campus laboratory sessions twice per semester.

• Apply broad discipline knowledge to a range of exercise and sport science theoretical and practical situations.
• Communicate exercise and sport science knowledge, concepts and skills to diverse population groups.
• Demonstrate a global outlook in exercise and sport science situations, showing sensitivity for diversity, including Aboriginal cultural competence.
• Demonstrate appropriate social and ethical values by working cooperatively and collaboratively in exercise and sports science settings.
• Demonstrate autonomy, accountability and initiative for own learning and professional practice.
• Think creatively to anticipate challenges and generate solutions in exercise and sport science contexts.
• Think critically to analyse, interpret and solve complex exercise and sport science situations.
• Use digital technologies and literacies to assess, evaluate and synthesise information from multiple sources.