Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master's degree program in Sport and Exercise across the Lifespan is designed to provide students with theoretical, methodical, and practical knowledge in the field of sports science. The program focuses on planning and delivering comprehensive programs to encourage sport and exercise throughout a person's lifetime.

Facts and Formalities

• Degree: Master of Arts
• Type of program: Consecutive
• Start of program: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 4 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Consecutive master’s programs with access restriction
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.
• Part-time option: Yes

Course Content

The program enables students to acquire knowledge from the field of sports science, allowing them to plan and deliver comprehensive programs to encourage sport and exercise throughout a person's lifetime.

Course Structure

The program consists of three basic modules that provide in-depth knowledge of research methods, project management and development, and socialization in all life phases. Four profile modules form the core of the course of studies:

• “Diagnostics and intervention”: This module involves the theoretical foundations as well as the implementation, evaluation, and interpretation of selected sports-motoric and sports-psychology test procedures in all life phases, and the planning and implementation of evidence-based sports and physical activity interventions.
• “Sports and health”: Students acquire specialist theory and methodology knowledge on the topics of health care, health promotion, prevention, rehabilitation, and motoric development, each from the multidimensional perspective of all life phases.
• “Sports and performance”: This module covers both junior competitive sports in childhood and adolescence and adult competitive sports, providing comprehensive training sciences insights into the planning, structuring, and control of systematic training processes in the various fields of application.
• “Research projects”: The module teaches the theoretical basics of planning study designs and periods of studies as well as the evaluation, visualization, interpretation, and communication of study results.

These profile modules are supplemented with a freely selectable module with sports sciences content and a module on orientation within the vocational field. An examination module with a Master’s thesis and oral degree examination complete the degree program.