Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science

The refreshed Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science delivers a nationally consistent, practice-centred curriculum built around 20 shared core units and two contemporary majors - Sport Performance and Exercise Rehabilitation. First-year foundations have been tightened and sequenced to build capability early (e.g., Physiological Foundations → Applied Exercise Physiology → Adaptation to Exercise), with biomechanics, motor control and learning, psychology and exercise programming integrated into authentic labs and field tasks. A key outcome of the redesigned first year is eligibility for Aus. Active Personal Trainer registration, enabling most single-degree students to register and practice after Year 1 (and typically after Year 2 in double degrees). Mid-course, a strengthened checkpoint unit in Exercise Assessment and Conditioning introduces secure, skills-based assessments to ensure students can design, justify and deliver safe, evidence-based programs before entering practicum. The majors have been modernised with specialist options preparing student for their chosen career progressions. Professional learning is capped by a two-stage practicum: Professional Experience 1 (internal, supported) and Professional Experience 2 (external). Across the pair, students complete placements at a minimum of two sites and 140 hours (including 90 hours of exercise testing, prescription and delivery), and undertake secure capstone assessments (including an Objective Structured Clinical Examination - OSCE) to validate graduate readiness. The program is aligned to ESSA standards to achieve graduate Accredited Exercise Scientist registration and builds ASCA accreditation requirements into the strength & conditioning sequence (e.g., resistance training and athlete preparation units), with the expectation that students in ESSA-accredited courses will be positioned to achieve ASCA Level 1 accreditation as a minimum.