Sport and Exercise Science (with Foundation)

Reasons to choose Kingston

• This course is endorsed by the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES).

• You’ll gain the CIMSPA Coaching Assistant qualification after successfully completing your first year.

• You’ll have access to sophisticated equipment to measure athlete responses to exercise and analyse sports movements and skills.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course
Our degree with foundation year courses are ideal if you have non-traditional or unrelated qualifications or experience, are returning to education or would like some support to prepare for a degree. Subject materials and teaching are tailored to degrees at Kingston. You’ll develop practical, technical and communication skills, and apply knowledge to real-life problems during the four-year integrated degree.

Are you passionate about sport and exercise? Would you enjoy a career where you worked to improve people’s sporting performance, fitness and health? There are increasing opportunities for sports scientists to work with athletes or conduct research.

This hands-on course studies the science that underpins sports participation and how the body’s performance can be improved. Topics include anatomy, biomechanics, nutrition, physiology and psychology, with research-informed teaching linking current knowledge with industry practice. You’ll learn to monitor and assess health, fitness and performance. You will study sports injuries and conduct a project/dissertation on a selected topic.

You may be interested in our other degrees: BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Coaching and Physical Education) and BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Nutrition).

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
There are opportunities in sports management, recreation and health and fitness in the private and public sectors.

Example modules

• Analysis in Sport and Exercise
• Applied Sport Psychology
• Biomechanics of Sport Performance and Injury.

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.

Teaching includes lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical laboratory experience with access to high-specification physiology and biomechanics laboratories.

Assessment includes continuous assessment (eg essays, laboratory reports, presentations), dissertation/research project and exams.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• BASES, British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences