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A major in Exercise and Health Science ensures you will graduate with a broad knowledge and understanding in the area of exercise and health. When taken with the Sport Science major where Sport Science is the degree-specific major, this combination leads to accreditation as an exercise scientist. Your knowledge and skills also complement other science areas, potentially leading to postgraduate professional training.

About the Course

Are you passionate about exercise and health? Do you want to spread the word and educate others about keeping fit and being healthy? This major develops your knowledge and skills in the exercise and health domain, with relevant training for careers in the health education, exercise rehabilitation, health service delivery, and fitness industries. Your knowledge and skills also complement other science areas, potentially leading to postgraduate professional training. You’ll study a mix of core units to give a solid foundation in the area and are able to choose from option units to ensure you graduate with a broad knowledge and understanding in the area of exercise and health. The Bachelor of Science with a degree-specific major in Sport Science and a second major in Exercise and Health is a National University Course Accreditation Program (NUCAP) accredited course. Upon graduation, you may apply to Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) within two years of completing the course for credentialing as an Accredited Exercise Scientist (AES).

Career Pathways

Employment opportunities exist in the professions of healthy lifestyle programming for the community and industry, sports development, health and fitness coordination and program management, and as an Exercise Scientist. You may decide to move on to specialized postgraduate qualifications in education, teaching, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, corporate training, recreation management, health promotion, medicine or work health and safety.

Further Study

Honors in Sport Science, Exercise and Health provides you with interdisciplinary research skills and advanced knowledge in a select sub-discipline area (exercise physiology/biochemistry, biomechanics, motor development, exercise and health psychology or activity promotion). The honors specialization provides an ideal background for continuance to a PhD or other professional-based research degrees.

You will gain a greater depth of knowledge in your area of specialization, while also developing research skills. You will learn to plan, administer testing, analyses and present data both in written and oral formats. You’ll learn to prepare a written manuscript for peer-reviewed publications as well as independent time and work management skills and to develop leadership potential. You’ll also gain advanced computer, problem-solving and organizational skills.