Nutrition For Sport And Exercise - Msc/pgd/pgc in Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK

Nutrition For Sport And Exercise - Msc/pgd/pgc in Cardiff Metropolitan University

Course Overview

Nutrition improves performance; whether in elite sport, amateur fitness or exercise among the general population.  This course will enable you to gain the evidence-based knowledge and skills needed to become a professional Sports and Exercise Nutritionist.  The course has been designed to enable you to join the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENr), the professional register for qualified sports and exercise nutritionists in the UK.

You'll be taught by experienced registered SENr practitioners to ensure you enter the workplace with the skills you need to positively impact performance of whoever you are working with.

Learning & Teaching​

The course is primarily designed to be studied part time through blended learning. Each module is taught using a combination of interactive distance learning and a 2-3 day block of face-to-face teaching here on campus. Students tell us they really value the flexibility of this approach enabling them to combine their studies alongside other commitments.

We take full advantage of our excellent facilities during the campus teaching blocks. You will have lots of supervised experience devising meal plans in our consumer kitchen, fitness testing in our exercise physiology labs, consultation skills in our clinic rooms and anthropometrics practicals.

Employability & Careers​

Vocation modules in professional practice enable students to work with selected sports teams, clubs and individuals to improve their performance with nutrition. This is undertaken in a flexible manner to fit with the interests and career aspirations of each individual student. All work is supervised closely by registered practitioners to ensure clear skills development within the SENr code of prifessional conduct.

The course has been designed to enable you to join the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENr), the professional register for qualified sports and exercise nutritionists. This is an important quality maker which recognises that your skills and knowledge have been benchmarked against those required in this competitive job market.

Some graduates will go onto work with elite sport but many will apply their skills to a wider range of individuals including amateur sport and promoting good nutrition to improve health in the wider population. There is a strong emphasis on transferable skills throughout the course, for example dietary assessment and consultation skills.

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