Sports and Exercise Science

Description

Our BSc Sports and Exercise Science enables you to not only study some aspects of the subject in more depth but also focus on the science of coaching and training. You have the opportunity to gain coaching awards from sports governing bodies. This mixture of discipline-based and interdisciplinary approaches ensures you have the skills required to optimise your employability. In addition to your lectures, you have the opportunity to develop practical sports science skills in laboratory sessions. A key feature of this course is a major research project, which you complete in your final year. When you graduate from Essex, you are a knowledgeable and skilled sports scientist.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 13950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

Our courses are based on flexibility and choice, so that you can tailor your degree to your interests. In your first year you usually take four or five pre-requisite modules for your course allowing you flexibility to try subjects you have not come across before.
With a small number of exceptions, once you successfully complete the first year of your BSc, you qualify to enter the second year not only of that course but also of a range of other courses. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available.
We continue to offer a range of optional modules in your second and final-years and most courses allow you to undertake a final-year project. The research project enables you to work in one of our research laboratories alongside our internationally reputed scientists, studying real science in a real scientific environment. Some of our science courses offer an optional extra year of an industrial placement.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1
Anatomy and Physiology 1;
Anatomy and Physiology 2;
Cell Biology for Sports and Exercise Science;
Introduction to Biomechanics;
Introduction to Sport and Exercise Psychology;
Professional Skills in Sports and Exercise Science (double module); and
Principles of Nutrition and Metabolism

Year 2
Energy for Exercise;
Exercise Physiology;
Biomechanics, Movement and Sports Injuries;
Sports and Performance Psychology;
Research Skills and Employability in Sports and Exercise Science;
Accessing and Developing Performance in Sport and Exercise; and
two options from: Health and Lifestyle, Muscle Performance and Fatigue, or Work-based Learning in Sports and Exercise Science

Year 3
Research project (double module);
Issues in Sport and Exercise Science; and
five options from: Exercise Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Drugs in Sports and Exercise, Psychology of Sporting Excellence, Special Topics in Exercise Physiology, Movement Analysis, and Sports, Exercise and the Self

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

A-levels: ABB-BBB, including one science subject or Mathematics
Please note: PE, Sports Science and Psychology count as science A-levels
GCSE Mathematics and Science: C
GCSE English: C
IB: 32-30 points, including Higher Level Science or Mathematics grade 5 and Standard Mathematics and Science grade 4 (if not taken at Higher Level, we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis)
BTEC qualifications, in relevant disciplines, will be considered on an individual basis, depending on the units studied. The standard required is generally at Distinction level.
If you are taking the Access to HE Diploma in Sciences please e-mail us.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

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