Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport
Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport
The Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport develops your knowledge, understanding and skills needed to enhance the conditioning of high performance athletes. You’ll build strategies to optimise individual and team performances, within the context of a multidisciplinary environment and its culture and leadership structures, and to do so in an…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Graduate Diploma in High Performance Sport develops your knowledge, understanding and skills needed to enhance the conditioning of high performance athletes. You’ll build strategies to optimise individual and team performances, within the context of a multidisciplinary environment and its culture and leadership structures, and to do so in an ethical manner characterised by a concern for respect, equity and social justice.
The high performance sport industry is a global, multi-billion dollar entity that provides employment opportunities for a range of professions, including sport scientists, coaches and managers. In Australia, there are employment opportunities in professional and semi-professional sporting teams, Australian and state institutes of sport, academies of sport, and other sporting organisations. These opportunities extend to the international market.
ACU strongly encourages students to be fully vaccinated. With our industry and community placement partners requiring vaccination, and with public health orders regularly changing – students can avoid interruption to their studies, placement and graduation requirements by becoming fully vaccinated.
Further study
The degree is designed as a pathway into the Master of High Performance Sport.
Careers
Examples of the types of work settings the course prepares you for:
sports scientist
high performance manager
strength and conditioning coach
professional coach
fitness coach
rehabilitation coach
performance analyst
fitness advisor
sports science manager
football or other sport manager
team manager
REQUIREMENTS
An applicant must also comply with the Admission to Coursework Programs Policy.
To be eligible for admission to the course, an applicant must:
a. hold a Bachelor degree or higher in Exercise Science, Sports Science, Human Movement or a related discipline AND have evidence of relevant industry experience; AND
submit a supporting professional referee’s report regarding suitability for this postgraduate program and/or experience in the industry; or
b. hold a Bachelor degree in Exercise Science, Sports Science, Human Movement or a related discipline, with a grade point average of at least 4.8 on the ACU 7 point scale; AND
submit a supporting professional referee’s report regarding suitability for this postgraduate program and/or experience in the industry; or
c. have completed one of the following ACU degrees:
Graduate Certificate in High Performance Sport
Graduate Certificate in Performance Analysis
Graduate Certificate in Exercise Rehabilitation for Sports Injuries
Graduate Certificate in High Performance Sport (40 cp RPL);
Graduate Certificate in Performance Analysis (20 cp RPL);
Graduate Certificate in High Performance Sport Leadership (20 cp RPL);
Graduate Certificate in Exercise Rehabilitation for Sports Injuries (30 cp RPL);
Graduate Certificate in Sports Analytics (20 cp RPL).
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS) – 6.5
- Pearson Test of English (PTE) – 58
- Test of English as a Foreign Language – Academic (TOEFL) – 79 (Writing – 24, Reading – 19, Speaking – 20, Listening – 20)
- ACU English Language Test – B
- Cambridge Advanced English (CAE) – 176
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Australian Catholic University (ACU) is an Australian education provider that is ranked in the top 2% of universities worldwide and the top 40 of Generation Y universities. Study options are offered in the areas of arts and humanities; business and IT; education; law; nursing and health sciences; philosophy and theology; psychology; sport and biological science. A degree at ACU involves much more than classes and study. Throughout the degree, students will hear and learn from industry leaders who bring their expertise to ACU to inspire a new generation of leaders. ACU has campuses across Brisbane, Adelaide, Ballarat, Blacktown, Canberra, Melbourne, North Sydney, Rome, and Strathfield.
