Degree Programmes | Health and Human Performance
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Sport Science and Health provides an academic foundation for individuals wishing to develop a career in a range of both sport and health-related environments. Sport and exercise scientists study, research and advise on the scientific factors influencing sport and exercise. From this detailed knowledge, they can give specialist advice based on research for the improvement of individual or team performance.
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Athletic Therapy and Training deals with the prevention, assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries affecting people involved in physical activity, exercise, and sport at all standards. The course also examines how to train physical fitness for reconditioning in sport and for a physically active lifestyle.
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Physical education has is an integral part of the education process, one that promotes the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of the child. Biology is a subject that is fundamental to the knowledge and understanding of the body and how it works, this makes it an excellent subject to combine with physical education.
Mathematics
Physical education has is an integral part of the education process, one that promotes the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of the child. Mathematics is a key subject in the understanding of the modern world, arising in areas as diverse as international financial systems and the use of statistics in sport. This makes the job of teaching mathematics hugely important.
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The MSc in Elite Sport Performance (Level 9 NFQ, 90 ECTS) is a two-year, part-time, distance-learning programme that provides students with an opportunity to complete a programme of study focused on theories and practice of sport performance and develop an advanced understanding of research methodologies and reflective and critical skills.
This programme is aimed at early-career professionals working in the sport domain, and those with aspirations to work in this environment, who are motivated to extend their knowledge and understanding of elite sport performance and deepen discipline-specific expertise through postgraduate study.
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The Professional Doctorate in Elite Performance (Sport) (Level 10 NFQ, 240 ECTS) is a four year part-time, blended learning programme, comprising both research and taught elements. The programme will exploit the working context of students by supporting them to develop evidence-based solutions to their ‘real world’ workplace problems from across the sporting landscape.
Aimed at the next generation of practice leaders in sport, the qualification is designed to enhance and acknowledge the quality of innovation, critical review and systematic application of appropriate theories and research to sport performance. The part-time nature of the course enables students to embed their learning and research within their own professional practice and ensure that the acquired knowledge and understanding gained through the research journey then be integrated directly into the organisations and systems in which they work.
A dynamic and rapidly growing School within the Faculty of Science and Health, the School of Health and Human Performance at DCU is developing an international reputation in health, sport and exercise science and physical education. The School offers a range of professional development modules in a number of exercise, health, physical education and injury related disciplines in state of the art facilities.
Women's Health Modules
The Active Female: Pelvic Floor Function and Dysfunction
This module aims to present and discuss advanced current concepts and practical skills relating to pelvic floor muscle anatomy, function and dysfunction within female sport and exercise. This module aims to teach the learner how to enable their clients/patients to prevent, navigate, manage pelvic floor dysfunction (such as prolapse, hypertonic pelvic floor, incontinence etc) and related musculoskeletal complaints within a context of keeping physically active and achieving high performance in sport and exercise.
Further information is available in the course summary and application form can be obtained by emailing aisling.scally@dcu.ie
The Active Female: Through The Lifespan
This module will cover the significant physiological events that can occur throughout the female lifespan, from the teenager to post-menopause. The module will provide an insight into the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postnatal and menopause discussing clinically applicable physiology and demands and how each stage impacts rehabilitation and exercise in the active female.
Further information is available in the course summary and application form can be obtained by emailing aisling.scally@dcu.ie