Why Sport and Exercise Nutrition
How will you learn
*PD:Approval is the new name for SkillsActive (the Sector Skills Council for fitness qualifications). This enables us to award students with level 2 gym, level 3 personal trainer, and level 3 exercise referral qualifications.
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Year 1
Core modules:
Year 2
Core modules:
Option modules. One from a list that may include:
Year 3
Core modules:
Option modules. Plus choose one from a list that may include:
Final Year
Core modules:
Plus choose one module from a list which may include:
Careers in sport and exercise nutrition include: Performance Nutritionists, for example with the four UK Institutes of Sport, professional and amateur sports clubs and individual athletes; health promotion eg Health and Wellbeing/Lifestyle Coaches, Weight Management Practitioners; Sales eg supplements, gym equipment, in-store brand ambassador; Academia as researchers and lecturers; and Research and Development and New Product Development for food companies.
Previous Huddersfield Sport and Exercise graduates have gone on to work in education, research, teaching, community and social services in organisations including the NHS (Dietetic Assistant), Huddersfield Giants RLFC (Community Development Officer), Halifax RLFC (Performance Analyst), Barnsley Council (Senior Public Health Officer), Kirklees Active Leisure (Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor), Huddersfield Town FC (First Team Performance Analyst), Liverpool FC (Academy Fitness Coach), Everton FC (Lecturer and Coach), Manchester United (Sports Performance Analyst), Leicester City FC (Women’s First Team Performance Analyst), Project Sport (Sports Coach) and Nuffield Health (Performance Lead).**
*Percentage of graduates from this subject area who were in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 18/19, UK Domiciled).
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Insurance-Single: 300 GBP/year