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Bachelor of Sport and Recreation
Take your interest in sport, recreation and fitness and create a rewarding career for yourself. There is demand for skilled sport, recreation and fitness professionals in New Zealand and overseas.
Sports Major
- Coaching
- Exercise Science and Nutrition
- Health and Physical Education
- Management
- Outdoor Education
- Sport and Exercise Science
Coaching Major
This degree prepares you for a coaching career in sport, recreation, health and physical education, and the growing area of coach development.
Coaches work with athletes of all skill levels, from beginners to high-performance athletes, and there's a large number of coaching positions available in the areas of performance analysis and performance sports.
Gain understanding of the coaching process, and work with athletes of different skill levels through your workplace experience.
Key Features
- Modern athlete-centred coaching practice
- Workplace experience with national and regional sporting bodies or schools
- Wide-ranging coaching skills, from beginners to high-performance athletes
Exercise Science & Nutrition Major
The Exercise Science and Nutrition major covers the skills to help people make healthier choices. You study approaches to lifestyle management and healthy living to prevent lifestyle-related diseases.
Exercise science and nutrition are becoming more and more important as the developed world struggles with the effects of our modern lifestyle. There’s an increasing focus on lifestyle choices, physical activity, exercise, nutrition and other factors that affect health in the community.
The Exercise Science and Nutrition major is supported by the AUT Human Potential Centre, a research centre for physical activity and nutrition based at AUT Millennium.
Key Features
- Workplace experience in district health boards, schools and health organisations
- Closely linked to the AUT Human Potential Centre
- Major research and postgraduate opportunities
Health & Physical Education Major
Health and physical education is vital in helping young people develop the confidence and skills to be connected and active members of society. This major prepares you for this rewarding career.
The Health and Physical Education major is unique, integrating hauora, health promotion and the socio-ecological aspects that support health and physical education in New Zealand schools. You explore how people learn and how to support learning in health-related and movement-based subjects.
Key Features
- Progressive approach to health and wellbeing
- Foundation for a career in health and physical education
- Hands-on experience through workplace experience
Management Major
Develop expertise in sport management, marketing, facilities and events management, sponsorship, sport development, high performance sport leadership, law and finance.
Management skills are needed across the sport and recreation industries. The sports field isn’t like a traditional business and neither are the management skills needed to succeed in this area. With the large number of professional athletes, sports organisations, facilities and events in New Zealand, people with specialist business and management skills are in high demand.
Key Features
- Sport management skills are in demand in New Zealand and overseas
- Workplace experience in major New Zealand sporting bodies
- Covers a broad range of expertise
Outdoor Education Major
A qualification in outdoor education gives you the skillset to work in the outdoor and adventure industry, teaching and leading others.
AUT outdoor education graduates work in many fields. They teach in schools, work in outdoor pursuit centres, operate adventure tourism ventures and often progress into management.
Encounter New Zealand’s unique environment and learn from some of the country’s most experienced staff in outdoor education. AUT staff have worked and adventured in some of the world’s most exciting places including Antarctica, Nepal, North and South America, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Alps of France, Austria and Switzerland.
Key Features
- Workplace experience in outdoor education camps, adventure tourism centres or schools
- Passionate staff with first-hand experience in outdoor education and adventure
Sport & Exercise Science Major
Sport and exercise science focuses on improving sports performance, based on anatomy, biomechanics, nutrition and physiology, fitness assessment and exercise prescription.
The Sport and Exercise Science major is supported by the Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), based at AUT Millennium. Investigate issues related to human movement, physical conditioning, sports and exercise nutrition, exercise prescription and assessment, movement, exercise physiology and strength and conditioning.
Key Features
- Workplace experience with high-performance and recreational athletes, fitness centres, schools and sporting bodies
- Access to the latest ideas from the Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand
- You can register with REPS (Register of Exercise Professionals)
Standard pathway
Love sport and recreation, and want to study papers from across our majors? Tailor your study to your interests with the flexible Bachelor of Sport and Recreation standard pathway, and select papers from different disciplines within sport and recreation.
Key Features
- Flexible – tailor your degree to your interests and career goals
- Prepare yourself for a career in a fast-paced environment
- Offered at the AUT North or South Campus
Master of Sport and Exercise
With the Master of Sport and Exercise you can build on your existing knowledge and complete applied research in an area of sport and recreation, under the guidance of AUT's expert staff.
Your research project is equivalent to one year of full-time study. AUT is New Zealand’s top ranked university for sport and exercise science research, and through your research you work with some of the leading researchers in this field.
Master of Business Sport Leadership and Management Specialisation
Advance your understanding of sport leadership and management, and research a topic of your interest with the Sport Leadership and Management specialisation in the Master of Business. Sport Leadership and Management research at AUT has investigated leadership, sport participation, governance, inter-organisational linkages, law and policy, economics, marketing, consumer behaviour, sponsorship, advertising, social media, sport tourism, as well as event management.
Key Features
- An area of growing importance in New Zealand
- Staff who are internationally recognised as experts in this field
- Applies business and management techniques to the sport sector
- Explores different fields within both sport and business
Bachelor of Sport and Recreation (Honours)
Take your understanding of sport and recreation further, and research an area of your interest with the one-year Bachelor of Sport and Recreation (Honours).
This postgraduate degree is aimed at high-achieving students in the Bachelor of Sport and Recreation who want to advance their skills and make their CV stand out.
Research skills are highly valued in the sport and recreation sector and this programme can lead to a range of exciting careers. It can also serve as a direct pathway into the PhD. The Bachelor of Sport and Recreation (Honours) draws on papers from AUT’s Master of Sport and Exercise and Master of Health Science.
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