BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science Bachelor's degree at Southampton Solent University

This module provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the core disciplines that underpin sport and exercise science. You'll engage with the fundamental principles of sport and exercise biomechanics, physiology, and psychology, developing both theoretical knowledge and applied insight into how these domains contribute to the assessment, monitoring, and enhancement of athletic capability.

This module introduces you to the key psychological factors that influence sporting performance and behaviour across a range of competitive contexts. You'll address real-world challenges faced by performers and practitioners, such as performing under pressure, enhancing confidence, and sustaining motivation. You'll also examine a range of methods used to conduct psychological analysis, including observation, self-report measures, and reflective practice.

This module will provide you with the fundamental biomechanical principles of human movement. Knowing how and why a person moves, will prepare you to work as a practitioner, devising interventions and training programmes to ensure people achieve their athletic potential. You'll complete regular practical sessions using key biomechanical equipment, to help you prepare for working in the real world. You'll also be introduced to the fundamentals of notational/performance analysis, providing a link

This module introduces the foundations of performance assessment and physical training within sport and exercise science. You'll focus on understanding the key physiological factors that influence athletic performance and will learn how to conduct fundamental fitness tests, interpret results, and use evidence-based principles to design basic training programmes.

This module will examine what is considered the athletes lifespan. You'll explore notational and performance analysis, including movement testing and assessment, alongside the physiological demands of sport such as maturation processes, including muscular, skeletal, and hormonal development. You'll also examine core principles of nutrition, sport psychology, and physiology, as well as strength and conditioning, movement quality, and kinesiopathology/pathokinesiology to develop a comprehensive un

This module explores the key lifestyle demands, pressures and support needs experienced by athletes as they balance the requirements of training, competition, education, work and personal life. You will examine the social, psychological and environmental factors that influence an athlete's ability to maintain wellbeing, manage transitions and develop sustainable routines that support both performance and long-term health.

This module explores how skill, decision-making, and performance can be analysed and developed using a multidisciplinary approach. Drawing from sport science, psychology, biomechanics, and coaching theory, you will examine how athletes perform, why they succeed or fail under pressure, and how targeted feedback and training methods can enhance outcomes in competitive environments.

This module strengthens your ability to understand and analyse data within a sporting context. With a focus on how data can lead to informing decisions, you'll explore ideas regarding data collection, cleaning, processing and how these relate to statistics. You'll also be taught how to visualise data effectively so that you are able to communicate meaning from the data to a diverse audience.

This module develops a holistic understanding of working with injured athletes by integrating perspectives