BSHSSPCX - BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching - Programme Specification

This programme specification contains details on the learning outcomes and teaching assessment strategies for the BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching award.

To successfully pass this programme the student must complete an individualised three year learning portfolio evidencing their theoretical understanding and practical application of core coaching skills as defined by the UK Coaching Framework and its related legal and ethical standards concerning coach deployability. Portfolio work will see students demonstrating personal and professional skills across the full range of coaching practice and in a range of work contexts including educational institutions, sport development projects and community based initiatives.

These contexts will enable students to develop a personal coaching philosophy grounded in the programme’s core concerns of reflection upon both practice and ‘self’, contextual sensitivity to the needs of distinct athlete populations, notably children and young people, and awareness of the scientific underpinning of sports performance.  Study in the latter years of the programme will ask students to take on ‘work-like’ responsibilities such as the mentoring of colleagues and liaison with external sport related agencies in order to design, execute and appraise coaching projects significant in their scope, resource needs and the associated demands placed upon coach awareness, initiative and team-working skills. These projects will be partnered with, and balanced by, an extended dissertation whose completion will allow the student to demonstrate key academic skills whilst investigating a self-chosen area of coaching practice research.