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Applied Sport Science at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.

Anglia Ruskin University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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18Jan
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18Jan
Anglia Ruskin University - Undergraduate Open Day - Chelmsford
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18Jan
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Course summary

Develop your knowledge of sports science – exploring areas such as health, wellbeing and performance – on our Applied Sport Science degree in Writtle.

  • Train and work in our Centre for Sport and Health, with its sports laboratory, and strength and conditioning suite.
  • Learn from staff with high-level sports or industry experience.
  • Benefit from a blend of lectures and practical sessions, to give you a practical and career-enhancing learning experience.
  • Gain specific knowledge and skills relating to the promotion of active and healthy lifestyles across the lifespan.
  • Obtain industry experience and relate your studies to the real world through work placement, volunteering and shadowing opportunities.
  • Graduate ready to work in sport, health or exercise roles.
Our degree course offers a comprehensive sport science experience, where you'll explore the scientific principles and techniques that underpin health, wellbeing and sporting performance. You'll also focus on the specific knowledge and skills required when testing, assessing and evaluation human movement and performance. As part of your degree, you’ll learn to work with athletic populations, demonstrating and applying the four key subdisciplines of sport science: physiology, psychology, biomechanics and nutrition. These central themes provide the basis of a thorough appreciation of human performance in the context of sport and exercise. In addition to the core modules, in this Applied Sport Science course, bespoke modules focus on the skills required for lab and field-based testing of a range of athletic populations. You will learn how the human body functions when engaged in sport and exercise and how to interpret and evaluate its responses to different physical challenges. Please note that this course is subject to validation and some details, including modules, may change. As a student in Writtle, you’ll take part in practical sessions using specialist sports facilities and equipment. You’ll learn to work safely and ethically as an applied sport scientist in the Writtle Performance Centre, our academic testing laboratory and public-facing testing facility. You’ll get opportunities to be involved in a range of activities, from strength and conditioning training for team sport players to testing the VO2 max of elite runners. Through your experiences on the course, you’ll develop essential employability skills in both an applied and research setting, and effective practical skills that are in demand from top-level clubs, sporting organisations, and clinical practice. As well as our three-year degree course, you have the option of studying over 6 years part-time. You'll study the same modules, but sometimes in different years or in a different order.

Modules

Year 1: Core modules Introduction to Human Physiological Systems (15 credits) Applied Professional Skills (30 credits) Psychological Fundamentals in Sport and Exercise (30 credits) Bespoke modules Measurement and Evaluation in Human Performance (15 credits) Sport-specific Athlete Testing (15 credits) Year 2: Core modules Exercise Physiology (15 credits) Nutrition for Sport, Health and Exercise Research Skills in Sport and Exercise Science (30 credits) Ruskin Module Strength and Conditioning (15 credits) Bespoke modules Analysis of Human Movement and Performance (30 credits) Year 3: Core modules Applied Exercise Physiology (15 credits) Performance and Exercise Nutrition (15 credits) Major Project or Work Placement (30 credits) Sport and Exercise Medicine (30 credits) Bespoke modules Applied Inclusive Practice (30 credits)

Assessment method

Assessments are designed to elicit knowledge and understanding, and develop your skills. As a rule, modules have more than one assessment style. These include practical assessments – both in small groups and individually, practical portfolios, presentations, reflective logbooks, case studies, critiques of literature, written assessments, examinations – both multiple choice and essay questions, reports, peer and tutor observations, and your dissertation (Capstone Project).

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.0 (Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/applied-sport-science

Student Outcomes

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1
Channel Islands £9535 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

https://www.aru.ac.uk/student-life/preparing-for-study/help-with-finances/undergraduate https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/tuition-fees
Applied Sport Science at Anglia Ruskin University - UCAS