Graduate Certificate in High Performance Sport

The high performance sport industry is a global, multi-billion dollar entity that provides employment opportunities for a range of professions, including sport scientists, coaches and managers.The Graduate Certificate in High Performance Sport aims to help students develop the knowledge, understanding and skills needed to enhance the conditioning of high performance athletes, with the aim of optimising individual and team performance, within the context of a multidisciplinary environment and its culture and leadership structures, and to do so in an ethical manner characterised by a concern for respect, equity and social justice.

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Online

Online/Off-campus - 6 months

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Structure

40 credit points. The Graduate Certificate in High Performance Sport is designed as a program of structured learning that includes relevant professional practice-related learning.

Subjects

  • High performance sport
  • Sport and exercise science

Entry requirements

  • To be eligible for admission to the course, an applicant must have completed:hold a Bachelor degree or higher in Exercise Science, Sports Science, Human Movement or a related discipline
  • OR hold a Bachelor degree or higher AND have evidence of relevant industry experience. OR submit a resume alongside their formal application, demonstrating suitability for study and evidence of relevant industry experience and/or prior learning over a sustained period.If applying as part of the Australian Government's Higher Education Relief Package (2023) initiative, applicants also must:be over 18 years of age at commencement of course
  • be a domestic applicant
  • not be currently enrolled at ACU.

Study Pathways

The degree is designed as a pathway into the Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport and the Master of High Performance Sport.

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