Health, Exercise and Sport

About the course

This Health, Exercise and Sport degree will enable you to design, deliver, manage, and promote a variety of health-based interventions. Also, you will be equipped to engage with different population groups across our communities e.g. older people, children and young people, ethnic minority groups and people with additional needs or health conditions.

Career Prospects

What you will study

Further to this, you will also:

• Gain an understanding of the principles of, human anatomy and physiology, sports and exercise psychology and nutrition.
• Explore how exercise and sport can be used to encourage positive sustained lifestyle improvements or changes.
• Provide nutritional assessments and learn about the nature of common health conditions that may require dietary manipulations or adaptations.
• Understand common research methods and learn to form evidence-based perceptions of contemporary and emerging issues.
• Evaluate the policies and procedures that currently guide the public health landscapes, including locally and nationally.

By studying the Health, Exercise and Sport degree course, you'll gain a solid foundation for your chosen career path. There's a strong focus on providing practically applicable skills that employers within the industry need and value. As well as gaining both academic and practical experience, you will also be prepared to unlock your future career aspirations.

• Develop your understanding of the role and benefit of technology through use of our specialist multipurpose teaching zones within the Performance Hub and partner facilities.
• Your theoretical understanding will be enhanced by opportunities to learn, develop and demonstrate a wide range of practical and applied skills and competencies.
• You'll work closely with our industry partners, such as Manchester United and Salford City FC, who provide guest sessions, industry-based insight days and placements to UA92 students.
• No traditional end-of-year exams. Assessments are generally practical and competency-based where possible* including individual and group work in a range of formats i.e. case studies, essays, reports, literature reviews, reflective logs and diaries, self and peer evaluations, audio/visual projects and presentations.

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