Career opportunities
As the field of Sports Technology is so broad there are a wide range of career opportunities to consider, for example:
- Performance analyst for high performance sport
- Sports equipment / clothing research and development
- Anti-doping organisation representative Software programmer for sports media companies
- Sports facility manager
- App designer
What is Sports Technology?
Sports Technology is an incredibly diverse, interdisciplinary field that can lead to research in fields such as the modelling of movement, sports performance analysis, athlete workload monitoring, brain-blood flow neurophysiology, and the broadcasting of sporting events (e.g. 3D animation, computational modelling).
Teaching and research in technologies associated with sport already occur in a number of disciplines including:
- Computer Science
- Medicine
- Human Nutrition
- Physical Education
- Physics
- Physiology
- Physiotherapy
- Psychology
Minor-only subject
Please note: this subject can only be taken as a minor.
A minor subject can be included in many of our undergraduate degrees. To earn a minor, you typically must complete a minimum of 90 points in that subject, with at least 18 points at the 300-level.
Your minor can be a subject more commonly taken for a different degree. For example, a BCom majoring in Marketing can include Japanese as a minor subject. To include this subject as a minor in your application, first find a major subject through our Subject Search or Study Match.
You can check what’s required to receive the minor accreditation in the programme details below.
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Compare programmes for this subject as a major and minor (where available).
A minor subject can be included in many of our undergraduate degrees. To earn a minor, you typically must complete a minimum of 90 points in that subject, with at least 18 points at the 300-level.
Your minor can be a subject more commonly taken for a different degree. For example, a BCom majoring in Marketing can include Japanese as a minor subject. To include this subject as a minor in your application, first find a major subject through our Subject Search or Study Match.
You can check what’s required to receive the minor accreditation in the programme details below.
Available as a minor subject for a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Music (MusB), Bachelor of Performing Arts (BPA), Bachelor of Theology (BTheol), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Bachelor of Entrepreneurship (BEntr), Bachelor of Health Science (BHealSc), Bachelor of Arts and Commerce (BACom), Bachelor of Arts and Science (BASc) or Bachelor of Commerce and Science (BComSc) degree
| Level | Papers | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 100-level | SPEX 102 Principles of Exercise for Health and Performance | 18 |
| 200-level | One of: One of: | 18 18 |
| 300-level | SPEX 311 Sports Technology One of: | 18 18 |
| Note: Students should check the prerequisites for 200- and 300-level papers when selecting their 100-level and 200-level papers. | ||
| Total | 90 |
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