Sport and Exercise Science (Coaching and Physical Education) with Professional Placement

Reasons to choose Kingston

• This course is endorsed by the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES).

• You’ll gain the CIMSPA Coaching Assistant qualification after successfully completing your first year.

• You can choose to take a four-year sandwich degree, with a year's overseas study or an industrial placement to give you a career head start.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course
On this course, you’ll develop practical coaching skills and study the science behind coaching, performance, leadership and sports analysis. You’ll have access to sophisticated equipment to measure athlete responses to exercise and analyse sports movements and skills.

Modules cover coaching, performance analysis, psychology, human physiology, anatomy and biomechanics. A project or dissertation on a selected topic will develop your independent learning skills. Our modules will help you develop your coaching philosophy and physical education teaching practice.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
You’ll be ready to develop a career in sport development and coaching-related roles in both public and private sectors. There are opportunities to work with athletes in national and international competitions, as well as in grassroots sport. You may choose to progress onto Kingston University's PGCE Secondary Teaching in Physical Education.

Example modules

– The Science and Practice of Coaching
– Coaching and Physical Education
– Performance Analysis in Sport

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.

Teaching includes lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical laboratory experience with access to high-specification physiology and biomechanics laboratories.

Assessment includes continuous assessment (eg essays, laboratory reports, presentations), dissertation/research project and exams.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• BASES, British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences