Sport Development & Coaching Sciences

BSc (Hons) Sports Development & Coaching Sciences

Delivery method: Full-time (including a 40 week industrial placement)
Course Reference: BSSDCS

Course Overview

An exciting degree bringing together the disciplines of sports development, sports management and coaching. The number of graduates entering the sporting industry is increasing. Potential employers are increasingly looking towards vocational expertise and experience to compliment academic qualifications.

Our course is specifically designed to address this issue with the third year of the course being spent on an industrial placement in the sporting industry. This placement will give you the opportunity to gain the industrial experience and relevant sporting skills that employers are seeking from today’s graduates. The major limitation with many degree courses currently offered in sport-related disciplines is that they do not reflect the employment opportunities available upon graduation. This degree was developed after extensive consultation with industry and concentrates upon the areas of sports development, coaching and management, the areas identified by industry as those requiring well- qualified graduates.

The structure of the course was developed following discussion with specific organisations including UK Sport, Sport England, Sports Coach UK, the Institute of Sport and Recreation Management, and some of the sport National Governing Bodies. As well as the Industrial Placement, our students also experience work-based learning in years 1 and 2, during which they develop their skills in coaching, development and management environments. Our students therefore graduate with an academic degree, a range of specific vocational experiences and the key personal skills required to excel in employment.

Why BU?

• Research staff and sports lecturers work with industry on major events such as the London 2012 Olympics and the local hosting of the sailing events in Weymouth and Portland
• We have nationally recognised provisions for cricket, golf and tennis
• Our sports courses offer the opportunity for you to gain extra sporting qualifications such as National Governing Body coaching awards
• On and off campus sport and leisure facilities.
• Scholarship programmes available to support elite student athletes