Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Sport and Exercise Psychology (C680)

Bangor University

Sports and exercise psychology is the study of the psychological factors that influence sports, athletic performance, exercise, and physical activity. Sports and exercise psychologists investigate how psychological factors influence elite athletes’ ability to perform under pressure and how participating in recreational sport and exercise can improve health, mental health and wellbeing.

In Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Sport and Exercise Psychology, students will learn about what sport and exercise psychologists do, how they do it, and why. They will learn from expert staff about a range of topics from how sport performers thrive under pressure to what motivates exercisers to engage in physical activity.

An unusual focus of this course at Bangor University is its examination of psychophysiological factors, like brain imaging and in-depth heart rate monitoring, to better understand how psychological and physiological processes interact with, and relate to, the sport and exercise behaviour of elite athletes and recreational exercisers.