BSc Adventure Sport Science
Entry requirements
Offers are tariff based, 104 - 128 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: A Levels (General Studies and Key Skills not accepted) BTEC National Extended Diploma: DMM - DDM Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM - DDM Sports Leaders UK: Higher Sports Leadership qualifications International Baccalaureate Diploma: accepted Access to HE: pass required Welsh Baccalaureate: We will accept this qualification in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications T-Levels: T Levels in a relevant subject considered on a case-by-case basis Extended Project Qualification: Points can include a relevant Extended Project (EPQ) but must include a minimum 2 full A-levels, or equivalent Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to the outdoors (e.g. practical experience, work experience, Duke of Edinburgh Award).
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science, combining adventure sport disciplines with core sport science. Core topics include fieldwork, data analysis, statistics, research methods, and human behaviour. The course includes a scientific research expedition module and a final-year dissertation. Teaching takes place in field-based settings across North Wales alongside laboratories equipped with a hypoxia chamber.
Modules
- Outdoor Adventure Activities: Practical Skills
- Mechanisms of Body Regulation
- Professional Life Skills
- Neuroscience of Sport Performance
- Physiology of Human Body Systems
- Emotional and Social Foundations in Sport
- Skill Acquisition
- Sport and Exercise Physiology
- Outdoor Adventure Activities: Advanced Skills and Leadership
- Research Expedition
- Research Skills in Sport Science
- Sport Psychology in Action
- Nutrition for Performance and Health
- Dissertation
- Adventure Sports Science: Tourism and Therapy
- People and the Environment
- Personality in Sport and Exercise
- Stress and Performance
- Physiology of Athletic Development and Training Design
- Talent Identification and Development
- Sport and Exercise Medicine