School Sport and Sport Coaching (Top-Up)

In alignment with this, units will address areas such as contemporary issues in sport, sport psychology in coaching practice and negotiated research (dissertation).

Additionally students will have the opportunity to transfer skills, developed through their coaching practice, and apply these to the expanding physical activity and health agenda, in particular reference to childhood obesity and other school age issues (such as sedentary behaviour).

The programme will also provide opportunities for students to develop their understanding both academically and vocationally through practical reflective practice. To further enhance this, the applied nature and research based element of the course helps students to interact with the industry and allows opportunities to network and develop employability links with people already operating in the professional sport sphere. The programme seeks to promote independent learning and aims to produce graduate reflective practitioners who are able to assimilate, evaluate and critically appraise information based on key contemporary topics of sports coaching and school sport. It also aims to equip graduates with a range of skills which will support future progression into either employment or higher-level learning.

In addition to academic study, there will also be the opportunity for learners to represent the college football team in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) league. This team will also provide students with the opportunity to apply the theory from their studies in a practical setting (i.e. applying sport coaching theory to real life situations).