During this course, youll learn how to enhance health and human performance, and how to advocate for and champion a healthy, educated and active society. Youll encounter a range of teaching methods, including practical sessions, and develop key skills you can use in any career, including creative and critical thinking. <br>Youll study anatomy, behaviour change, coaching, nutrition, physiology, psychology, sociology and more, understanding these topics as they apply to people of all ages and in contexts from general health through to elite sport performance. To gain on-the-ground experience, youll do a six-month INTRA programme work placement in third year.<br>As a Sport Science and Health graduate, you could go on to work as a performance analyst, performance coach, laboratory technician or health promotion officer. Alternatively, you could go on to a masters or professional doctorate in elite sport, health promotion, strength and conditioning, nutrition, psychology, physiology, physiotherapy or advanced entry medicine.<br>You may opt for further study in related areas, including physiotherapy, nutrition, clinical exercise, strength and conditioning, coaching and education.<br>Our INTRA programme provides six months of paid, relevant work experience to students. This will give you a genuine competitive edge with employers when you graduate. The course provides a broad foundation of knowledge, skills and experience for those wishing to pursue employment in: Sport (e.g. coaching, sport development, sport science support, sports industry), Health (e.g. health promotion, cardiac rehabilitation, corporate health advisor)<br>Graduates of the course also work as exercise consultants on specialist programmes in the gymnasium, sports or fitness clubs to help their clients to meet their goals and administer appropriate methods of assessment. After compiling and interpreting the results of this assessment, they design a suitable exercise or training programme. This could be of a technical, physiological or psychological nature. The course will also provide you with opportunities for further study in a wide variety of related specialist areas, including physiotherapy, nutrition, clinical exercise, strength and conditioning, and coaching and education.