Sport and Exercise Psychology BSc (Hons) with foundation year

Course overview

Why you should study this course

Foundation year

• Gain the academic skills required for degree-level study.
• Develop a grounding in key areas of health, education, psychology and wellbeing.

Degree

• Gain a critical appreciation of how forensic psychology can be applied to real world questions, cross-cultural and diverse situations across global contexts.
• Focus on employability: develop transferable, practical and cognitive skills putting you in an excellent position to secure postgraduate education or employment in an increasingly competitive postgraduate education or employment.
• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects enhances international awareness through multi-cultural communication and peer interaction at participating institutions (subject to availability).
• Opportunities to participate in exciting field trips² to a range of overseas destinations, which have previously included the United States.

Careers and opportunities

Our courses equip you with a range of skills and competencies that could set you apart from other graduates and make you attractive to potential employers (e.g. critical thinking, communication skills, leadership and creativity).

This course provides the necessary grounding to enable you to progress and be eligible to undertake further training to become a qualified psychologist. In doing so you may be able to pursue a rewarding career in the community, for example, as an occupational, forensic or social psychologist, in mental wellbeing as a clinical or counselling psychologist, in physical wellbeing as a health, sport or neuropsychologist or working with children as a developmental or educational psychologist.

We aim to equip our graduates with highly sought-after employability skills (e.g. transferable skills, analytical thinking, presentation skills) to embark on a career in applied psychological settings (e.g., mental health secure settings, rehabilitation centres); or complete one of our postgraduate degrees. However, the transferable skills you gain from your degree opens several options for career pathways. Our students have also become researchers, lecturers, teachers, administrators, managers and health and care professionals.