Courses

Course type
Undergraduate

Course duration
3 - 6 Years

CASES endorsed
Yes

Region
London

Course description

Sport and exercise sciences involve the provision of support services to elite athlete, public health and fitness, as well as special populations such as the elderly and hospital patients. This university course has substantial components of physiology, anatomy, metabolism and biomechanics, with coverage of sports psychology and sports sociology. In a growing industry with excellent and diverse employment opportunities, graduates can find roles in the fitness industry, coaching, sports therapy, exercise physiology, health promotion and teaching.

Curriculum

In this degree you will explore a curriculum including exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology and research methods as key disciplines. Topics you’ll study include adaptations to physical activity, environmental stress and exercise; the biomechanics of human movement, interaction between athlete and equipment measurement of forces and multi-dimensional film analysis of motion; motivations, performance anxiety management and group dynamics in exercise. There are also optional work placement modules which will allow you access to the culture and structure of London region sport and exercise science industries.

Lecturers and Facilities

You will be supported by expert teaching staff to develop both practical and theoretical skills associated with health, exercise, athlete support and also clinical exercise applications involving so-called ‘special populations’. Our lecturers have interests in athlete performance testing, supra-maximal exercise, clinical exercise, body composition physiological thresholds, fatigue resistance and application of non-linear analyses to human movement and body composition and are research active.

Our state-of-the-art facilities available to you throughout the course include Cosmed gas analysers, blood analysis, Woodway treadmills, large climate chamber and high-altitude simulation. Dexa, BodPod and Bioelectical impedance is used in the body composition lab and the Biomechanics labs include electromyography, Vicon 20 camera 3-dimensional motion analysis and Kistler force platforms.

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

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

UCAS Institution Code
L68

UCAS Course Code
C602