Sport Science: Strength and Conditioning Bsc (Hons) drafted
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-10-02 | 2023-05-01 |
| 2024-01-08 | 2023-08-01 |
| 2024-04-22 | 2023-11-01 |
| 2023-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Strength and conditioning is a key component of every athlete’s training regime. Home to the Weightlifting Wales National Performance Centre, Bangor is ideally placed to provide real-world experience in strength and conditioning. You’ll have access to the 470 square metre Platform 81 Performance Training Centre, our World Rugby and FIFA standard 3G artificial pitch and state-of-the-art sport science laboratories. You’ll gain a modern theoretical knowledge of sport science, strength and conditioning and develop practitioner skills.
Successful strength and conditioning practitioners require a varied toolbox of skills including scientific knowledge, practical expertise and coaching experience. The Sport Science, Strength and Conditioning degree at Bangor University directly addresses all of these requirements to kickstart your career. You’ll cover the core areas of sport science including, psychology, physiology, anatomy and biomechanics and combine this with contemporary strength and conditioning theory and practice as well as topics from the field of sport coaching such as talent development and skill learning.
Alongside the theory, you'll gain hands-on experience of strength and conditioning in our state of the art indoor and outdoors facilities, as well as additional practical experience in our extensive sport science laboratories. We also offer work placement options so that you can bring these newfound skills to life. Together these experiences you’ll develop the skillset needed by the modern, forward thinking strength and conditioning or sport science practitioner. You’ll be taught by staff with extensive experience as applied practitioners and who are recognised internationally for their cutting-edge scientific research. North Wales offers a stunning natural environment for your studies, and our department, which was established in 1978, is proud to call itself one of the original and longest serving Sport and Exercise Science providers in the world.
Why choose Bangor University for this course?
Additional Course Options
Placement Year
This course is available with a Placement Year option where you will study for 1 additional year. The Placement Year is undertaken at the end of the second year and students are away for the whole of the academic year.
The Placement Year provides you with a fantastic opportunity to broaden your horizons and develop valuable skills and contacts through working with a self-sourced organisation relevant to your degree subject. The minimum period in placement (at one or more locations) is seven calendar months; more usually you would spend 10-12 months with a placement provider. You would normally start sometime in the period June to September of your second year and finish between June and September the following year. Placements can be UK-based or overseas and you will work with staff to plan and finalise the placement arrangements.
You will be expected to find and arrange a suitable placement to complement your degree and will be fully supported throughout by a dedicated member of staff at your academic School and the University’s Skills and Employability Services.
You will have the opportunity to fully consider this option when you have started your course at Bangor and can make an application for a transfer onto this pathway at the appropriate time. Read more about the work experience opportunities that may be available to you or, if you have any questions, please get in touch.
International Experience Year
This course is available with an International Experience Year option where you will study or work abroad for 1 additional year. You will have ‘with International Experience’ added to your degree title on graduating.
Studying abroad is a great opportunity to see a different way of life, learn about new cultures and broaden your horizons. With international experience of this kind, you’ll really improve your career prospects. There are a wide variety of destinations and partner universities to choose from. If you plan to study in a country where English is not spoken natively, there may be language courses available for you at Bangor and in your host university to improve your language skills.
You will have the opportunity to fully consider this option at any time during your degree at Bangor and make your application. If you have any questions in the meantime, please get in touch.
Read more about the International Experience Year programme and see the studying or working abroad options on the Student Exchanges section of our website.
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