BSc (Hons) Physical Education and Sport and Exercise Science

Combine your passion for sport, movement, and teaching with a degree in Physical Education and Sport & Exercise Science.

Through this interdisciplinary degree, you’ll be able to study two subject areas. Both distinct in their own specialisms yet interconnected, you’ll learn how each inform each other, giving you a deeper understanding of how both physical education and sports science overlap.

With a strong emphasis on practical and experiential learning, this hands-on degree bridges the gap between theory and practice. You’ll have opportunities to work in a variety of environments including outdoor education centres and different school settings.

What you’ll learn


- Delve into a range of subjects including physiology, biomechanics, psychology, and sociology.


- Understand how young people learn physical skills through practical activities in physical education and sport.


- Apply psychological principles to sport, motivation, and behaviour.


- Develop your practical teaching and leadership skills need to thrive in a teaching environment.


- Personalise your degree through a range of optional modules, tailoring your studies to your preference.


What’s more, as you gain real-world learning through practical activities, this course will set you up for a range of careers including PE teaching, sport coaching, personal training, health promotion, and sport science.

If you want to make a difference through movement, then study Physical Education and Sport & Exercise Science with CCCU.

Location

This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.

A Levels BBC BTEC DMM Access 15 Distinctions and 30 Merits International Baccalaureate 29 Points Combinations A combination of qualifications totalling 112 UCAS points