Sports Coaching and Exercise Sciences

Whether you're a community coach wanting to develop your abilities or an aspiring coach to elite athletes, this course will put your knowledge into practice and ensure you help people participating in sport achieve their full potential. This may involve supporting professional sportspeople, sports teams, community teams, or school groups and working closely with them to improve their individual and group performance. The programme includes sport science and coaching modules to ensure you have a sound understanding of the theory that underpins physical exercise. Coaches must be aware of their ethical and legal obligations to their clients.

Employability is a key theme of the programme and the team are currently working closely with a number of key providers for students to undertake voluntary work to complement their academic programme. During the second year of the programme you will have the opportunity to undertake work experience, where you can complete an assessed work based project in your chosen field.

Modules studied can include:
• Physiological Measurement (20 credits)
• Investigating Careers (20 credits)
• Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology (20 credits)
• Strength and Conditioning (20 credits)
• Foundations of Nutrition (20 credits)
• Skills coaching (20 credits)
• Measurement and Analysis of Sport Performance (20 credits)
• Research and Investigative Project (20 credits)
• Nutrition for Sport Performance (20 credits)

The programme includes a varied range of academic and vocational assessments designed in line with employer consultation to provide you with the key skills and attributes necessary for working within the health related fitness industry. These include; group presentations; portfolios; Laboratory work: progress files; simulations; blogs and; open book examinations.