Sport and Exercise Science with Foundation Year

About this course

Sport and exercise science is the systematic study of how the human body responds to physical activity, exercise, and sport, drawing on physiology, biomechanics, psychology, and nutrition to understand performance, health, and wellbeing. It is a discipline that sits at the intersection of biological science and applied practice, asking both fundamental questions about how muscles generate force or how the cardiovascular system adapts to training, and practical questions about how to optimise performance, prevent injury, or use exercise as medicine in clinical and public health settings. Birmingham City University's four-year full-time Sport and Exercise Science with Foundation Year programme is designed for students who want a thorough preparation before engaging with the core degree. The foundation year builds the scientific and academic skills needed for the main curriculum, making th

Where its graduates go

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