Health and Physical Education

Interested in health and wellbeing? Studying how we learn and applying it to a health and wellbeing context will provide you with skills to help others understand the importance of maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle.

If you’re considering school teaching, studying health and physical education could prepare you for teaching junior or senior health and physical education classes in New Zealand schools. You’ll learn to plan, teach and evaluate learning experiences in health education and physical education.

Major must include

120 points from the courses below, with at least 30 points at level 7.

If you’re studying the Bachelor of Sport, Exercise and Health and want to see what courses to take, you should refer to the Health and Physical Education major in the Bachelor of Sport, Exercise and Health.

Minor must include

60 points from the courses listed below including SPOR631, with at least 15 points at level 7.

Level 5 courses

• SPOR524 Sport, Health and Physical Activity in Education
• SPSC502 Exercise Physiology I*

Level 6 courses

• SPOR631 Health and Physical Education: Curriculum in Action
• SPOR632 Skill Acquisition*
• SPSC604 Applied Sports Biomechanics I*
• SPOR641 Te Pūtake o te Waiora OR SPSC607 Performance Psychology

Level 7 courses

• SPOR722 Health Education and Youth Wellbeing
• SPOR723 Teaching and Learning Approaches in Sport, Health, and Physical Education

_{*This course is only available in the Health and Physical Education major.}