Sports Coaching and Fitness (Top-Up)

Why choose this course?
Our BSc sports coaching top-up degree is a continuation of the FdSc degree, and has been designed to offer our students a hands-on approach to learning coaching skills and approaches whilst incorporating our outstanding geographical location within North Wales.

The course:

• Means you will be able to top-up your FdSc qualification to a full BSc degree

• Provides you with all the necessary skills and insight required to work within the sports and fitness industry

• Involves collaboration with external partners to help ensure students leave us with a CV bursting with number of recognised awards and qualifications

• Helps you to get that first foot on the employment ladder

• *is part of a subject area rated 4th in the UK and 1st in Wales for teaching satisfaction in the Sports Science subject league tables, The Guardian University Guide 2023.

Key Course Features

• The course offers real-world opportunities to experience the workplace

• The programme is taught by lecturers from a wide range of backgrounds who are experienced, applied practitioners (from sports coaches to analysts, psychologists, and physiologists) and researchers within the fields of sport and exercise.

• Study in a British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences (BASES) accredited laboratory.

• Field trips to explore the sport and fitness challenges within North Wales.

• Cutting-edge technology including our strength & conditioning suite and human performance lab to support your understanding and enjoyment of the topics covered.

• We have an excellent support and personal tutor system to ensure students are supported throughout their studies.

• Collaboration with external partners ensures you can leave us with a CV bursting number of recognised awards and qualifications, helping to get that first foot on the employment ladder.

• Our partnership with Rugby League’s Widnes Vikings will provide you with the opportunity to access real-world learning experiences within an elite sporting environment and benefit from a wealth of professional knowledge.

Course Modules

The content of the FdSc Sports Coaching degree and the top-up year draws on key principles within sport and fitness. By ensuring consistency throughout the degree, you will discover an enjoyable and rewarding future career.

YEAR 1 (LEVEL 6)

• Applied Professional Practice in Fitness and Conditioning (20 credits): Building on the knowledge and skills developed at L4 & 5 this module enables you to reflect on your personal and professional practice within applied S&C environments.

• Analysing Performance for Improvement (20 credits): This module looks to apply what you have learned through previous years and apply it to a real-world scenario of your choosing. Ultimately, seeing how effective the system they have developed copes in dynamic environments.

• Reflective Practitioner (Special Topic) (40 credits): This module enables you to gain valuable experience within a sport or fitness setting of your choice. Develop personal and professional skills relevant for future employment.

• Independent Discovery (40 credits): This module allows you to conduct a research study of your own. After selecting an environment of your choosing you will collect, analyse, and interpret data from within it, turning all this hard work into a structured written format for submission.

The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.

Teaching and Learning

Wrexham University is committed to supporting our students to maximise their academic potential and the introduction of our Active Learning Framework (ALF) helps deliver this commitment. Grounded in the University’s values of being accessible, supportive, innovative, and ambitious, ALF will support flexible learning that makes the best use of spaces on Campus together with digitally enabled learning opportunities designed to be accessed anytime, anywhere as appropriate. In addition, ALF embodies ways of teaching and learning that create and support a sense of belonging for students – critically important for us as a university that prides itself on being a supportive community.

Incorporating everything mentioned above, our teaching will use a combination of face-to-face and online techniques. There are practical elements that may include off-campus trips to environments that facilitate the learning experience. On average, students will receive 16 hours of taught content through the delivery of ALF per week.
In addition, the university offers workshops and support sessions in areas such as academic writing, effective note-making and preparing for assignments. Students can book appointments with academic skills tutors dedicated to helping deal with the practicalities of university work. Our student support section has more information on the help available.

In terms of particular needs, the University’s Inclusion Services can provide appropriate guidance and support should any students require reasonable adjustments to be made because of a recognised prevailing disability, medical condition, or specific learning difference.

Assessment

For the top-up year, your time with us culminates in the submission of an independent Learning opportunity (dissertation project), in an area that supports your future aspirations.