BA (Honours) Sport Studies

Course description
What you study
This course encourages you to think differently about sport. It introduces you to contemporary issues such as violence, inequality, obesity and mental health and asks questions about the role of sport in addressing these. If you are passionate about sport, believe it has the power to have a positive impact on society and want to be involved in delivering that, this is the course is for you.
Throughout your studies, you are provided with a range of critical insights, creative thinking skills and reflective competences that help you develop your own ways of working. As a result, you become an independent thinker who is able to thrive in a rapidly changing sport industry.
You gain a broad understanding of sport in society and then choose to specialise in areas that reflect your career aims and interests. Key areas include • the politics of sport • sociology applied to sport, culture and society • sport and community development • sport media • sport and social theory.
Placements and work experience
You enhance your career prospects in the sports industry by completing a six week work placement in year two. This gives you the chance to gain experience in the area of sport you are most interested in.
Previous students have secured placements as • equality audit officer at Sheffield United FC • Press Association journalist • cricket coach in South Africa • project officer for Football Unites, Racism Divides • community coach at Sheffield United FC, Sheffield Wednesday FC and Wigan Athletic FC • disability sports officer for West Yorkshire Sport.
In your final year you specialise through a choice of option modules. You then combine your learning and knowledge to develop a research project. Past projects include evaluations of community sports development projects and cricket coaching schemes, explorations of changing fan cultures in football and investigations into the media representation of minority...