Sport coaching bsc(hons)

Year 1

• Fundamentals of Coaching

  This module will enable you to develop your understanding of roles, responsibilities and processes of coaching. The content focus is on consideration of the many foundation skills and knowledge bases required to create a successful coaching environment. You will reflect on your coaching experience in order to re-conceptualise coaching, and practice your coaching skills in unfamiliar and challenging contexts. The module will also explore implications to coaching of policy and legislation.

• Practical Application of Coaching

  This module will give you the opportunity to apply fundamental coaching principles in a range of different settings. The module targets the planning, application and reflection of foundation skills which are generic to all coaching contexts. You will be challenged to display fundamental coaching skills in increasingly challenging contexts. Alongside this practically oriented module, you will contribute to on-going analysis and discussion of coaching case studies.

• Who Runs Sport?

  Understanding why sport is structured and organised in the way it is has become the most important factor for anyone thinking of developing a career in sport. This module will introduce you to issues of governance, government, policy initiatives, funding and media coverage. Content includes a view of the relationships between sport and sports coaching, sport and health/physical activity, sport and physical education, the sources of funding for sport and why sport is such 'big business'.

• Sport Practical, Physical Activity and Performance

  This module will introduce several sports and physical activities from four categories (invasion games, divided court games, aquatics and also striking and fielding games). The combination of physical activity, knowledge, and applied physiology knowledge will enable you to develop a greater understanding of the demands on the activity. You will acquire the breadth of understanding necessary to provide the basis for further developments in one or more of these categories at levels five and six.

• Science of Movement

  This module combines the study of physiology, psychology and biomechanics into a module designed to meet the needs of PE, sports studies and sports-coaching-based students.

  You will develop an understanding of muscular and cardiovascular aspects of human development and movement. You will study skill acquisition and gain an understanding of motor control. Finally, you will develop biomechanical understanding through recording, analysing and evaluating human movement and performance using qualitative analysis.

• The Scientific Study of Sport and Exercise

  This module will provide you with basic skills in critical analysis, interpretation and analysis of numerical data, and research methods, which are fundamental for a sport and exercise science graduate.