Courses

Course type
Undergraduate

Course duration
3 to 6 years

CASES endorsed
Yes

Region
South Wales

Course description

Learn by doing from the start. Combine science, practical coaching, and real-world problem-solving to understand performance, improve health, and begin developing your identity as a sport and exercise professional.

Inside the body: From Muscles to Mind
Explore how the body and mind drive human performance, combining anatomy, biomechanics, and sport psychology. Build practical understanding and skills for health, fitness, coaching, and sport science careers.

Translating Science into Performance
Bridge sport science and real-world performance by exploring training, nutrition, assessment, and psychology. Gain practical skills to design programmes, monitor progress, and support athletes to train smarter, recover better, and excel.

Health and Fitness Foundations
Kickstart your fitness career by learning to design, deliver, and evaluate safe, effective exercise programmes. Gain practical skills, industry qualifications, and knowledge of training, nutrition, and psychology to support clients’ well-being.

The Sport & Exercise Scientist – Skills for Success
Become a confident, career-ready sport and exercise scientist by tackling real-world challenges. Build skills in research, teamwork, communication, and problem-solving while exploring your professional identity and impact on health and well-being.

Dive deeper into performance, health, and research. Apply biomechanics, physiology, psychology, and evidence-based practice to real-world challenges while gaining industry experience and developing advanced laboratory and professional skills.

Human Fundamental Sciences: Application and Adaptation
Deepen your knowledge of how the body moves, performs, and recovers. Explore physiology, biomechanics, and psychology, apply science to real-world challenges, and develop practical skills for performance and rehabilitation.

Human Performance: Application and Adaptation
Explore how athletes excel by combining body, mind, nutrition, and movement science. Apply real-world strategies, assess performance, and develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and practical skills for sport and exercise science.

Applied Exercise for Health: Designing for Change
Learn to design safe, effective exercise programmes for people with long-term conditions. Apply evidence-based guidelines, develop practical, communication, and critical-thinking skills, and build professional credibility for health, fitness, and clinical careers.

Research In Practice
Develop essential research skills and apply them in real-world sport or exercise settings. Learn methods, data analysis, and ethics while linking theory to practice through placements and professional observation.

Operate as a professional sport scientist. Analyse complex performance data, design strategic interventions, complete your Grand Challenge project, and present solutions that mirror industry consultancy and applied practice.

Advanced Sport & Exercise Science
Integrate physiology, biomechanics, and psychology to tackle complex sport and exercise challenges. Apply critical thinking, professional skills, and ethical reasoning to analyse performance, injury, and applied practice in real-world and research contexts.

Optimising Human Performance
Turn science into action by applying physiology, biomechanics, and psychology to optimise performance. Develop evidence-based consultancy skills, design interventions, and tackle professional challenges in real-world sport and exercise contexts.

Strength and Conditioning: Evidence-Based Training Methods
Learn to plan, deliver, and justify strength and conditioning programmes. Develop technical skills in strength, power, speed, and agility, applying evidence-based methods to improve performance and reduce injury risk.

Research to Reality: Sport & Exercise Science in Practice
Apply your knowledge and skills to real-world sport and exercise challenges. Lead evidence-based projects, develop professional independence, and refine critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication to prepare for careers or postgraduate study.

Course topic areas:
Biomechanics, Exercise physiology, Exercise science, Sport and exercise science, Sport Physiology, Sport psychology, Sport science

Website
https://www.southwales.ac.uk/courses/bsc-hons-sport-and-exercise-science/

UCAS Institution Code
W01

UCAS Course Code
C602