Health & Exercise
challenge by choice...
Fact File
Award
BSc (Single Honours)
UCAS Code
BC96
Course length
3 years full-time.
Part-time study available
Entry requirements
You will be invited to visit the University to discuss the course. Entry is based on individual merit. Mature students with strong interest in the subject area are particularly welcome to apply. Students with HND in Sports Science may gain entry into year two.
Career opportunities
- Private Health Clubs and Fitness Assessment units within Leisure Centres
- Personal trainers
- Sports Clubs
- Teaching (subject to PGCE qualification)
- Health Promotion
About the Course
The importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle for the individual’s well-being is examined in this degree programme.
You will learn how exercise and diet affect the body and impact on the individual’s health, as well as what social and psychological factors encourage or constrain health-related behaviour.
You will also learn how to implement and maintain health promotion strategies as well as how to measure and assess an individual’s health and fitness using the latest testing equipment.
Typical modules
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Conditioning Activities
- Diet & Nutrition
- Dissertation - research into a relevant subject that interests you
- Exercise & Medical Conditions
- Exercise Prescription & Adherence
- Fitness Assessment
- Health Promotion & Physical Activity
- Kinesiology
Features
- Health & Exercise Assessment Laboratory
- Links with a Medical & Exercise Professionals
- Representation on the Carmarthenshire Health Alliance
- Work Placement module in the second year
- USA exchange programme available in the second year
- Strong vocational relevance
- Modular choice
Why study at Trinity?
- Small, friendly campus with motivated and supportive staff
- Good links with a wide range of employers in the health and exercise business
- Only degree of its kind in the region
- Additional coaching and training awards are available to all students
- Sports Centre & Health Suite on campus
- An accredited centre for the Duke of Edinburgh Award
Programme Specification
The main educational aims of the programme are:
To instil an understanding of the role of exercise in promoting health and wellbeing.
To provide opportunities for students to gain vocational experience in careers associated with health promotion and exercise.
To produce reflective graduates of high academic ability.
To build and develop core knowledge and key skills required for graduates working in a health and exercise setting.
Programme Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Make effective use of knowledge and understanding of the disciplines underpinning human structure and function.
Appraise and evaluate the effects of sport and exercise intervention on the participant.
Provide a critical appreciation of the relationship between sport and exercise activity and intervention in a variety of participant groups. This will include special populations such as the elderly, disabled and children.
Evidence the skills required to monitor and evaluate sports (exercise) performance in laboratories and/or field settings.
Display a critical appreciation of the integration of variables involved in the delivery (instructing) of enhanced sport (exercise) performance.
Demonstrate the application of the social and cultural meanings attached to sport (exercise and physical activity) and their impact on participation and regulation.
Critically reflect on the impact of leisure (exercise) in the lives of individuals and analyse barriers to participation such as aspects of age, gender, disability etc.
Intellectual Skills
Research and assess subject specific facts, theories, paradigms, principles and concepts.
Critically assess and evaluate evidence.
Critically interpret data and text.
Describe and analyse information.
Apply knowledge to the solution of familiar and unfamiliar problems.
Develop a reasoned argument and challenge assumptions.
Take responsibility for their own learning and continuous professional development.
Critique the contribution of a range of academic disciplines that have informed the development of the subject as a field of study.
Demonstrate an appropriate degree of progression within specialist fields.
Display an integrated knowledge of the scope and breadth of the subject domain.
Key Skills
Communication and presentation skills.
Numeracy, computing and information technology skills.
Interactive and group skills.
Problem solving skills.
Ability to self-appraise and reflect on practice.
Ability to plan and manage learning.
Practical
Plan, design and execute practical activities using appropriate techniques and procedures.
Undertake fieldwork with due regard for safety and risk assessment.
Plan, design, execute and communicate a sustained piece of independent intellectual work using appropriate media.
Recognise and respond to moral, ethical and safety issues which directly pertain to the subject domain including relevant legislation and professional codes of conduct.
