Bachelor (Honours)
Honours in Clinical Exercise Physiology is an intensive year-long program that enables students to research a topic they are passionate about. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own original research project and conduct research under the guidance of a supervisor who is a specialist in the relevant field. It is the final year of undergraduate study for most students and provides students with an avenue into postgraduate study or into a career as a professional researcher or academic. Students who complete honours can demonstrate to future employees that they have important job skills such as the ability to produce high quality work with minimal supervision and important project management skills.
Honours can be one of the most enjoyable and challenging years of a student's undergraduate degree and is a rare opportunity for students to dedicate an entire year to one area of study that is important to them. In addition, honours offers students the experience of utilising all the skills they have learned through their undergraduate degree to produce a 20,000 word thesis.
A candidate shall:
1. (a) hold an AQF Level 7 Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology from the University of New England or an equivalent AQF Level 7 Bachelor qualification in a relevant discipline; and
(b) have achieved a GPA of 5 or better in at least 24 credit points at 300-level in Clinical Exercise Physiology units.
2. Admission to candidature shall be determined by the Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology Honours Course Coordinator.
3. Readmission to the Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology with Honours will only be permitted with the approval of the Course Coordinator and will only be considered where a completely new research topic is proposed.
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Graduates from this course can be employed in a range of fields including health and physical activity promotion, sports science, health and fitness (personal trainer, strength and conditioning coach, health consultant/educator), clinical measurements (cardiac/respiratory/sleep technician) and postgraduate research/coursework in related disciplines.