Course type

Bachelor Degree (AQF Level 7)

Special admission requirements

Nominate with QTAC as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.

Post admission
requirements

This course may have specific admission requirements such as immunisation, a Suitability to Work with Children Card, a federal police check and/or other conditions that students must comply with. Students must complete all professional experience placement requirements by the prescribed deadlines and maintain currency of these requirements in order to stay admitted in the course.

You will find your course requirements here:

https://www.jcu.edu.au/professional-experience-placement/preparation-checklists

Course learning outcomes

James Cook University’s Bachelor of Exercise Physiology (Clinical) meets the Exercise and Sports Science Australia standards for Exercise Science membership and Exercise Physiology Accreditation.

On successful completion of the course, the graduate will be able to:

• Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and technical knowledge and skills, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts, in the disciplines of clinical exercise physiology and sport and exercise science

• Critically review, analyse, synthesise and apply evidence in clinical exercise physiology and sport and exercise science practice, across a range of social, personal, economic and environmental contexts

• Assess health status and formulate, implement and critically evaluate sustainable management plans to promote and optimise the health and welfare of apparently healthy individuals and/or populations and those who present with acute or chronic health conditions

• Communicate clearly and coherently through well-developed English language and numeracy proficiency, appropriate for graduate entry into the clinical exercise physiology and sport and exercise science workforces

• Demonstrate appropriate professional behaviour, clinical reasoning and sound judgement in problem solving and decision making, in the provision of client-centred practice that is contemporary, evidence-based, legal, ethical, safe and culturally sensitive

• Reflect on current skills, knowledge and attitudes, in order to plan and implement ongoing personal and professional development needs

• Contribute to the design and delivery of safe, sustainable and effective collaborative allied health services.

Townsville

Maximum time to complete

11 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. Students may be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense. (Note: health professional courses generally involve extensive professional or clinical placements).

Further information about placements can be found at Enrolment Policy – Coursework Students.

Accreditation requirements

Students must successfully complete all subjects listed to be eligible for accreditation with Exercise and Sports Science Australia.

Supplementary exam for final subject

Not applicable

Maximum allowed

6 credit points

Expiry

Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 20 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the candidate has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree.

Approved abbreviation

BExPhysiol(Clin)

Exit with lesser award

Students who have completed 24 credit points of their course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Diploma of Tertiary Studies.

Eligibility

By invitation of the Head of School

Normally an overall grade point average of 5.0 (i.e. credit average) is required across their undergraduate degree and/or a grade point average of 5.0 in the third year of their undergraduate degree, with credits or better in specific discipline areas.  A minimum of a pass grade in a basic statistics subject is also required.