Physical exercise and health
Master Degree
Ano Letivo 2024/2025

Course Overview

The Master's Degree in Exercise and Health aims to offer a specialisation in the area of Exercise and Health, to deepen theoretical and practical knowledge of the relationship between exercise, health and healthy lifestyles, as well as to provide an effective response to an increasingly pressing and defined need for specialised training in the assessment and prescription of exercise for different target populations (healthy and those with different pathologies), in the implementation of physical activity programmes, and in the monitoring of these same programmes.
The aim of this course is to prepare future exercise professionals, based on the development of skills for autonomous updating of knowledge, as well as permanent critical analysis of their own practices and the practices of those around them. It also provides advanced training in the critical analysis of the descriptive and mechanistic nature of the plausible relationships between exercise and health, as well as advanced training in the influence of behaviours associated with exercise and nutrition.

Organic Unit: School of Health and Human Development

Duration: 4 Semesters/120 ECTS credits (72 required and 0 optional in curricular units)

Language: Portuguese, English, Spanish

Regime: Presencial

CNAEF Areas:

Occupational health and safety (862)

Study Plan

A3ES Accreditation

Career Prospects

The Master's Degree aims to train specialist technicians who are capable of providing an adequate response to the different needs that are associated with the practice of physical activity and its implication in the field of health and well-being. It is intended that with this course students may come to intervene in the prescription of exercise and organization of Exercise programs, either in gymnasiums and health clubs or in municipal councils and other institutions that promote physical exercise programs.

Specific Entry Requirements

Degree in Sports Sciences, or in other areas related to Exercise and / or Health.

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