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Otago's unique Applied Science degrees link the excitement of science and the power of technology with the challenges of business. Applied Science programs help graduates to become innovative thinkers with an entrepreneurial spirit, the very attributes successful New Zealanders are well-known for. As a graduate you'll be in better control of your career, able to contribute to the success of any organization. And if innovation attracts you, an Applied Science degree combined with work experience will provide the right background if you decide to start your own business.

Sport and Exercise Nutrition

Sport and Exercise Nutrition is a rapidly growing area that requires combined knowledge of exercise science and human nutrition and is now a recognised sport science both nationally and internationally.

Sports Exercise Science and Human Nutrition are the sciences that look at the interactions people have with food and sport and exercise. Human Nutrition includes food production, food selection and food service, the consumption of food, how the body uses the energy and nutrients in food. Sport and Exercise Science includes mechanical, physiological and psychological responses to human movement and how these responses affect exercise performance capacity and health outcomes.

So Sport and Exercise Nutrition looks at how sport, exercise and food affect health and human performance, and how nutrition affects sports health and performance. Exercise, sport and food can promote good health and well-being and impact on the development of diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Programme Requirements

100-level

• BIOC 192 Foundations of Biochemistry
• CELS 191 Cell and Molecular Biology
• CHEM 191 The Chemical Basis of Biology and Human Health
• HUBS 191 Human Body Systems 1
• HUBS 192 Human Body Systems 2
• STAT 110 Statistical Methods, or STAT 115 Introduction to Biostatistics (recommended)

200-level

• HUNT 221 Fundamentals of Nutrients and Health
• HUNT 232 Sport and Exercise Nutrition
• HUNT 222 Nutritional Assessment or HUNT 223 International Nutrition and Health
• SPEX 201 Biomechanics or SPEX 202 Motor Behaviour
• SPEX 203 Exercise Physiology

300-level

• HUNT 355 Perspectives in Sports Nutrition
• SPEX 305 Athletic Conditioning and Rehabilitation

Two of:

• HUNT 311 Metabolism, Health and Disease
• HUNT 312 Nutrition in Cancer and Heart Disease
• HUNT 313 Life Cycle Nutrition

One of:

• SPEX 303 Exercise Energetics and Physiology
• SPEX 310 Exercise for Clinical Populations

72 further points, including either requirements for an approved minor or approved second major subject or other approved papers

Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours (BAppSc(Hons)) is also available.