Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology with 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.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate through their own practice an advanced understanding of the methods and processes of clinical exercise physiology as a creative endeavour and that current scientific knowledge is both contestable and testable by further inquiry;
2. exhibit depth and breadth of scientific knowledge by demonstrating advanced knowledge in clinical exercise physiology, demonstrating the potential to make original contributions to scientific knowledge and integrating their own research findings with the current body of disciplinary knowledge/paradigms;
3. conduct a research investigation under supervision in a research or professional environment by critically analysing a challenging complex or multi-faceted problem, identifying research questions, designing and planning a project, selecting and applying practical and/or theoretical techniques or tools to address a research question and analysing, interpreting and critically evaluating research findings;
4. be effective communicators of clinical exercise physiology by communicating scientific ideas and research findings to informed professional audiences using a variety of modes; and
5. be accountable for their own learning and scientific work by demonstrating initiative and intellectual independence, collaborating effectively and complying with regulatory frameworks and practising professional ethics relevant to their disciplinary area.