Programme summary for BSc (Hons) Fitness and Health
If you have an interest in, and commitment to, health-related fitness, this programme is designed for you. The programme seeks to develop your awareness and appreciation of the benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle and an understanding of the role of exercise in enhancing positive health status.
Areas covered include the physiology of sport; fitness assessment; sports nutrition; health promotion; working with people from a variety of backgrounds; the psychology of exercise; and creating opportunities for more people to become/stay fit and healthy. The Fitness and Health programme is one of the many sports science courses based in the School of Health, Sport and Bioscience.
About the programme
Our fitness and health degree focuses on the issues, processes and skills required to increase the fitness and health of all people within the wider community. If you have an interest in, and commitment to, health-related fitness, this programme is designed for you. The programme seeks to develop your awareness and appreciation of the benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle and an understanding of the role of exercise in enhancing positive health status.
2-subject degrees
You can combine this programme with a range of other subjects as part of a 2-subject degree. Popular combinations include Fitness & Health with Health Promotion, and Fitness & Health and Communication Studies.
Programme structure
The Honours Programme is for 3 years and has both a full-time and a part-time mode of study available. The Extended Degree route takes 4 years and, again, may be studied either full- or part-time. On completion of the Foundation Year, students progress on to the First Year of the Honours Programme.
The First Year of the Honours Programme is common between Fitness & Health and the three other Applied Sports Science Programmes. This allows students to make their final choice of programme at the end of that first year. It also allows students to acquire the basic grounding in a variety of programme ‘themes’ so that they can keep their options as open as possible in the second and third years.
The Second and Third Years of the Honours Programme are made up of a mixture of Core (i.e. Compulsory) and Optional Modules. The options can come from the full list of modules offered by the Subject Area, including those modules core to the other programmes.
Career opportunities
Our Fitness and Health programme has been running for a number of years and graduates have been very successful in gaining employment or going on to further study in areas such as: fitness club management, personal training, fitness instruction, physiotherapy training and health promotion.
Support
All students are allocated a personal tutor to whom individuals may turn with any problems/issues. In addition all module tutors offer additional support outside of the actual teaching periods.
Through the use of study skill modules in the First Year of the programme we aim to help all students make the step up to degree level. This module includes, amongst others, computer skills, report/essay writing, academic referencing, research, including use of the internet, and presentation skills. We also provide additional classes for those students who wish to dedicate more time and effort into developing their academic writing skills as fully as possible.
If any students require further support (e.g. due to dyslexia) then the systems are in place to ensure that the support is available.
Admission
The programme is open to any student who can demonstrate that she/he is capable of degree level study. Applicants should have the equivalent of 240 UCAS points. We also accept a relevant access course; a merit or distinction in an appropriate Advanced GNVQ or BTEC National Diploma. Other qualifications may be considered upon application. Students with relevant higher education qualifications may be eligible for advanced standing (that is exemption for elements of the programme).
Students may be admitted through Accreditation of Experiential Learning (AEL) or Accreditation of Certificated Learning (ACL) processes.
In the case of applicants whose first language is not English, then IELTS 6.0 (or equivalent) is required. International qualifications will be checked for appropriate matriculation to UK Higher Education undergraduate programmes.
Key facts
You can start many programmes in either September or February and applications are simple to make. Click below to:
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