Applied Sport Science

Our degree course offers a comprehensive sport science experience, where you'll explore the scientific principles and techniques that underpin health, wellbeing and sporting performance. You'll also focus on the specific knowledge and skills required when testing, assessing and evaluation human movement and performance.

As part of your degree, you’ll learn to work with athletic populations, demonstrating and applying the four key subdisciplines of sport science: physiology, psychology, biomechanics and nutrition. These central themes provide the basis of a thorough appreciation of human performance in the context of sport and exercise.

In addition to the core modules, in this Applied Sport Science course, bespoke modules focus on the skills required for lab and field-based testing of a range of athletic populations. You will learn how the human body functions when engaged in sport and exercise and how to interpret and evaluate its responses to different physical challenges.

As a student in Writtle, you’ll take part in practical sessions using specialist sports facilities and equipment. You’ll learn to work safely and ethically as an applied sport scientist in the Writtle Performance Centre, our academic testing laboratory and public-facing testing facility. You’ll get opportunities to be involved in a range of activities, from strength and conditioning training for team sport players to testing the VO2 max of elite runners.

Through your experiences on the course, you’ll develop essential employability skills in both an applied and research setting, and effective practical skills that are in demand from top-level clubs, sporting organisations, and clinical practice.

As well as our three-year degree course, you have the option of studying over 6 years part-time. You'll study the same modules, but sometimes in different years or in a different order.