The Bachelor of Sport and Exercise (Physical Education) will prepare you for a satisfying career working with youth in sport and exercise. WHAT IS IT LIKE? The Bachelor of Sport and Exercise (Physical Education) will provide you with the perfect foundation to use your talents in a professionally satisfying and productive way. Physical education has long been recognised as an important part of an overall education. This major will provide you with the knowledge and skills to perform and teach aspects of physical education, exercise and sport in educational contexts. As a graduate, you’ll become knowledgeable about aspects of physical education, particularly human development, and the breadth and potential of human movement education. You will be able to demonstrate the application of key pedagogical principles in movement education especially as they relate to youth. Gain crucial sport and education skills This major takes an interdisciplinary approach to study. As well as gaining practical competency in a range of physical activities, you will enhance your critical skills and gain insights on movement education from a socio-cultural and biophysical perspective. You will gain an illuminating, big-picture view of the potential of physical education, taught well, to be a major positive force in society. You will take a set of compulsory courses common to all the BSpEx majors, then select courses specific to physical education. Careers With the Bachelor of Sport and Exercise (Physical Education) you could go on to become a physical education teacher by undertaking one year’s further study: choose graduate diploma study in either secondary or primary school teaching programmes. The secondary diploma qualifies you as a teacher of health and physical education. Many graduates with this major become secondary school teachers in health and physical education, with opportunities for employment in New Zealand and overseas. You may also work as a sports coordinator in a school or with local sports organisations, working alongside health workers and other educational staff. Structure At Massey a credit system is used for our degrees. To complete a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise the following is required. Total of 360 credits completed. That’s 24 courses of 15 credits each Up to 165 credits (11 courses) completed at 100-level At least 195 credits (13 courses) completed above 100-level. Of these 75 credits or more must be from 300-level courses All majoring courses must be completed