Sports / Movement Science

Course summary

This course is designed for aspiring sports scientists who wish to pursue a career within the exciting world of sport, performance and excellence or for those wishing to progress onto university to study sport and exercise science at degree level. Sport and exercise science is the application of scientific principles to sport and exercise, achieved through one of the following three branches of science: • Biomechanics - an examination of the causes and consequences of human movement. • Physiology - concerned with the way that the body responds to exercise and training. • Psychology - seeks to provide answers to questions about human behaviour in sport and exercise settings. Students entering the College are taught first to understand and then challenge and enhance existing theory, research and practice aligned to, or influenced by, sport, physical activity, exercise and health.