The BSc (Hons) in Sports Coaching and Performance is a four-year honours degree programme that provides students with an advanced sport science education embedded with an applied coach education. The programme combines coach education with sport and performance science, applying theory to practice within multiple coaching environments.

 

The course has four distinct elements:

1. Coach Education Modules address key characteristics of applied and practical coaching within talent environments
2. Sports Science Students will learn to evaluate, research, assess and advise on coaching, training, competition and recovery practices in all areas and levels of sport. A sports scientist works with coaches, teams and individual athletes to provide scientific support in preparation for competition. This course merges both the role of the sport scientist and the coach.
3. Strength and Conditioning (S&C) focuses on the physical development of athletes of all ages, focusing on age specific strength and conditioning together with injury rehabilitation and prevention in order to improve elite sporting performance.
4. Sport in society examines the role and position of sport in society, providing students with the opportunity to learn about sporting environments and the challenges that can exist for coaches and athletes within those environments.

 

Unique features

• The sports-specific education is delivered and academic credit is given to students for completion of National Governing Body awards and progress though the coach development pathway. Students must pay the costs associated with these NGB awards.
• The programme is designed specifically to develop coaching skills, abilities and perspectives to enable the coach to pursue career pathways in coaching.
• Additional points can be awarded to individuals with outstanding sporting achievement. Typically 20 - 50 additional points may be added. Bonus Points Scheme
• A year-long internship is undertaken in the third year of the programme. This distinctive feature offers students the opportunity to develop real-world high-level experience prior to graduating within the areas of coaching, sport science, performance analysis and strength and conditioning. The internship is beneficial in helping students to develop a professional aptitude, strengthen personal character, provide a greater door to opportunity and enhance their employability. By investing in the internship the student gives themselves a broad spectrum of opportunity and bring in class learning to the performance environment and gain the experience of working in the real-time world of sport.
• Sports science foundation modules are a key component of the programme, students study the science of elite performance in specific sports, for example, the science of soccer.
• The programme is designed to ensure that students from individual to team sports will be educated in their area of interest. Athletic Monitoring is another key module in the final year, which provides the student with the tools to examine an athlete holistically, incorporating all the skills from coaching, sport science and psychology to enhance theirs and their athletes’ lifestyle management skills.