Sport, Coaching and Development

Do you want to pursue a career within the sports coaching, physical education or sports development fields? Our BSc (Hons) Sport, Coaching and Development is for you. It has been designed to give you the underpinning knowledge and skills to coach within multi-skill, multi-sport, educational, sport-specific or sport development environments.

Course Aims

• Prepare you for employment within a range of sport, multi-skill, multi-sport, educational or sport development environments.

• Allow you to develop into a critically informed, reflective and adaptable graduate.

• Ensure you can demonstrate appropriate needs analysis tools to critically evaluate the needs of diverse groups in order to design effective, inclusive and individualised coaching programmes.

• Provide you with the knowledge and critical understanding of the concepts, theories and principles central to the study of sport coaching, physical education, sport development, outdoor education and health.

• Give you a broad understanding of the vocationally and academically relevant knowledge to pursue a career in related areas of work.

• Ensure you are aware of the wider applications and impact of sport within wider international, national and local policies and effectively influence the attitudes, understanding and behaviours of key stakeholders.

• Help you to maintain an evidence-based to plan, justify, deliver and evaluate beneficially aligned programmes of learning for long, medium and short term needs of participants.

• Ensure you are capable of communicating effectively with colleagues, clients or members of an interdisciplinary team.

• Help you to manage and critically reflect on your own personal development and continued learning to ensure effective career progression.

Learning and Teaching Approach
This programme is delivered with a variety of learning and teaching approaches. For all modules, theory lectures are delivered that aim to deliver the core content and provide the underpinning knowledge. To complement the theory lectures, students have group seminars/practical sessions that are used to reinforce concepts delivered theoretically.

The teaching methods focus on facilitating a student-centred approach to enhance the independent learning that takes place outside of the classroom.

Contact Time
Contact time includes approximately 12-16 hours a week to include lectures, seminars, practicals and tutorials.

Students are also expected to carry out a significant amount of independent study in addition to contact time (approximately 25-30 hours a week).

Independent study includes reading around the subject, preparing for tutorials and seminars, preparing for, and completing, module assessments and revision for examinations; forming an essential part of a student’s learning journey.

You can expect to receive your timetable during induction week.

Progression

The programme is designed to enable you to progress to postgraduate study in a range of areas including coaching, sport development, biomechanics and/or teaching/pedagogy.

Careers
Upon graduating from this programme, you could follow a career as a sports coach, sports development officer/manager, sport/performance analyst, P.E. instructor, teacher training, sport facility manager.

What you will study

Year 1

• Academic, Employment and Professional Skills

• Functional Anatomy & Biomechanics

• Physiology of Sport Performance

• Foundations of Sports Coaching

• Fundamentals of Sport and Exercise Psychology

• Introduction to Research Skills

• The Sports Development Landscape

Year 2

• Analysing Sports Performance

• Applied Sports Coaching

• Community Sports Development

• Principles of Strength and Conditioning

• Professional Practice and Development

• Research Methods and Analysis

Year 3

• Coaching Specialist Populations

• Dissertation

• Managing Sports Businesses and Partnerships

• Supervised Experience

• Talent Identification and Development

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Assessment includes written assignments, seminars, short answer exams, poster presentations, coaching practical, case studies, presentations and independent projects. Opportunities for feedback on assessments are available prior to the final submission to support your development and achievement. Staff aim to return assessed work within a 20 working day timeframe (not including holidays) so that you can most benefit from the feedback.