Sport Coaching and Performance (Top Up)

The Sport Coaching and Performance Top Up degree at Birmingham Newman University is an opportunity for you to combine sports coaching with sport science to help you pursue a career in a performance coaching setting.

The degree will allow you to develop your coaching skills by reflecting upon your practical experiences in an academic way as well as being able to apply sport science concepts to your coaching covering disciplines such as biomechanics, physiology and psychology. You will learn to enhance, monitor and analyse performance to inform your coaching practice while having have access to excellent facilities such as the new on-campus 3G artificial grass pitch, sports hall and the Human Performance Laboratory.

The course is taught in dedicated facilities on one campus. The Human performance lab, indoor sports hall, strength & conditioning suite, aerobic conditioning suite, group exercise studio, full size outdoor 3G pitch, dedicated seminar rooms and staff offices can be found within a 100 yard radius of each other. A video tour of our facilities is available to view online.

Why study this course? This BSc Sport Coaching and Performance is an important pathway for those students that want a combination of the coaching pedagogy and sports science content. The course aims to enhance students’ employability, specifically within the sport coaching and performance industry and those seeking to pursue a career and/or further study in a performance coaching setting. Facilities such as the new on-campus 3G artificial grass pitch, sports hall and the Human Performance Laboratory. You are provided with the option to undertake a research-based dissertation or a negotiated Work-Based Research Project. Lecturers on this course are highly qualified and experienced, and regularly present at international conferences, collaborate internationally and publish research in top academic journals.

What does the course cover? There is a strong applied focus, and the module on Developing Young People and Athletes Through Sport alongside the coaching pedagogy and sport science modules will encourage you to bring theory, practice and reflexive practitioners’ skills together in innovative and challenging assessments