Course details

Summary

Be a major positive force for youth with physical education

The Bachelor of Sport and Exercise (Physical Education) will prepare you for a satisfying career working with youth in sport and exercise.

WHAT IS IT LIKE?

The Bachelor of Sport and Exercise (Physical Education) will provide you with the perfect foundation to use your talents in a professionally satisfying and productive way.

Physical education has long been recognised as an important part of an overall education. This major will provide you with the knowledge and skills to perform and teach aspects of physical education, exercise and sport in educational contexts. As a graduate, you’ll become knowledgeable about aspects of physical education, particularly human development, and the breadth and potential of human movement education. You will be able to demonstrate the application of key pedagogical principles in movement education especially as they relate to youth.

Gain crucial sport and education skills

This major takes an interdisciplinary approach to study. As well as gaining practical competency in a range of physical activities, you will enhance your critical skills and gain insights on movement education from a socio-cultural and biophysical perspective. You will gain an illuminating, big-picture view of the potential of physical education, taught well, to be a major positive force in society.

You will take a set of compulsory courses common to all the BSpEx majors, then select courses specific to physical education.

Careers

The Bachelor of Sport and Exercise (Physical Education) may see you working as a sports coordinator in a school or with local sports foundations, working alongside health workers and other educational staff.

You could also become a physical education teacher with one year’s further study: choose graduate diploma study in either secondary or primary school teaching programmes. The secondary diploma qualifies you as a teacher of health and physical education.

Many graduates with this major become secondary school teachers in health and physical education, with opportunities for employment in New Zealand and overseas.

Structure

At Massey a credit system is used for our degrees. To complete a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise the following is required.

• Total of 360 credits completed. That’s 24 courses of 15 credits each
• Up to 165 credits (11 courses) completed at 100-level
• At least 195 credits (13 courses) completed above 100-level. Of these 75 credits or more must be from 300-level courses
• All majoring courses must be completed

Entry criteria

Students must have successful completion of a qualification equivalent to the New Zealand Year 13 - NCEA Level 3 University Entrance.

English Language Requirements:

• IELTS score of 6.0 (no band less than 5.5)
• TOEFL iBT score of 80 overall (min 19 in Writing)
• PTE Academic score of 50 Overall (min 42 in communicative skills)
• Cambridge English score of 170