Sport and Exercise Practice

This unit is designed to provide students the opportunity to develop and apply theoretical knowledge in a range of professional sport, exercise and physical activity settings through professional practice placement. Engagement in professional career environments will foster the development of specific practical and non-practical skills needed to obtain the required graduate outcomes for employment within the industry. This unit involves practical placement, which, will contribute to the professional accreditation standards required by the governing body. Students will be supported by VU staff on an internal placement of at least 15 hours, which must be completed prior to approved external placements. This unit will required students to draw on the skills and knowledge developed in previous units within the degree.


Students must have a valid working with children check, current police check and, first aid and CPR certificate prior to commencing placement.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Integrate discipline-specific knowledge and skills in to order to provide safe and effective exercise-related interventions for apparently health client groups;
2. Critically review the ethical and legal responsibilities of the Codes of Professional Practice in accordance with ESSA and use ethical reasoning to identify, solve problems and recommend professional practice improvements;
3. Scrutinise data with the intention of differentiating between functional or clinical outcomes;
4. Prescribe an exercise protocol that has been devised through the analysis of physical assessment data in understanding an individual’s goal and motivations and evaluate its effectiveness; and,
5. Integrate knowledge already acquired from studies in exercise science, sport science and human performance to demonstrate appropriate behaviour as an entry level practitioner.