Bachelor of Therapeutic and Sports Massage

Summary

SIT's Bachelor of Therapeutic and Sports Massage was the first named massage degree programme to be approved in New Zealand.  It has been taught since 2002 and students have been graduating since 2004.  Health care delivery has moved beyond clinical competence and beyond copying previously successful clinicians.  Today's practitioners need to relate to a wider health care team and respond to the expressed needs and expectations of families, pressure groups, professionals and the wider community (Higgs & Edwards, 1999).

Backed by SIT's recognised infrastructures and academic community, the programme promotes research driven education, strong training in a community based clinic, and exceeds suggested industry requirements in both academic areas and clinical practice.

Graduating students from this degree have good opportunities for employment, both nationally and internationally. 

Graduates are critical thinking, reflective practitioners with technical and professional competence, sound reasoning and research literacy, and have a capacity to manage knowledge and its acquisition during their working lives.

The Year 3 programme is available via Blended Delivery flexibility to remain in their home town massage therapy clinics and communities.

Year 3 is comprised of four papers, MT7340, MT7350, MT7360, MT7370. Each paper is 30 credits. All four papers are now taught using blended/HyFlex delivery. These papers will challenge and develop your skills, knowledge and clinical practice in massage therapy. Approximately 320 massage therapy clinical / industry hours are completed within papers MT7350, MT7360 and MT7370.

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