Course details

Summary

This graduate diploma is designed for those who already hold a tertiary qualification or have considerable professional experience in sport, recreation or health, and want to gain a further qualification in sport and exercise.

Upon successfully completing the requirements you'll receive the award of:

Graduate Diploma in Sport and Exercise
Your award will be issued jointly by Toi Ohomai and Auckland University of Technology.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Career opportunities include:

• sports development
• sports co-ordination
• health promotion
• coaching
• teaching (via appropriate teacher training programmes)
• exercise instruction
• strength and conditioning and personal training
• facility management
• event management

Potential employers include:

• Sport Bay of Plenty
• Bay of Plenty Rugby
• regional sports organisations
• national sports organisations
• district health boards
• Heart Foundation
• cardiac clinics
• schools and colleges

TOPICS YOU'LL COVER
You will choose 120 credits worth of papers, of which at least 75 credits must be at Level 7.

Level 5 papers (15 credits each)

• Knowledge, Enquiry and Communication
• Leadership in Sport and the Outdoors
• Sport and Exercise Science Fundamentals
• Skill Learning in Sport and Recreation
• Innovative Planning in Sport and Recreation
• Sport and Recreation in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Contemporary Issues in Sport and Recreation
• Human Anatomy and Physiology 1

Level 6 papers (15 credits each unless otherwise noted)

• Sport and Recreation in Society
• Industry Experience and Research
• Legal Issues for Sport and Recreation
• Exercise Science
• Applied Sports Nutrition
• Physical Activity and Health
• Human Movement Studies
• Personal Training
• Coaching Practice 2
• Sustainable Sports Event Management
• Introduction to Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Analysing Performance
• Special Topic (15 or 30 credits)

Level 7 papers (15 credits each unless otherwise noted)

• Athletic Conditioning
• Leadership in Sport and Recreation
• Integrated Coaching Practice
• Food, Nutrition and Community Health
• Special Topic (15 or 30 credits)

Entry criteria

• A bachelor’s degree
• OR a relevant professional qualification or experience approved by the group leader (or approved representative) to be equivalent to a bachelor’s degree

English Language requirements:

IELTS Academic score of 6.0 with no band score lower than 5.5; TOEFL Internet-based Test (iBT) score of 60 or higher (with a writing score of 20); TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) score of 550 (with an essay score of 5.0 TWE); FCE, FCE for schools, CAE with a score of 169, no less than 162 in each skill; NZCEL of Level 4 with the Academic endorsement; PToE (Academic) score of 50.