BA (Hons)

Sports Coaching & Development

Duration
3 Years
Start
September 2024
UCAS Code
CL65
Delivery
Campus Taught
Foundation entry

Sport is a powerful tool. This course is your chance to harness it. With the coaching skills and knowledge of development, you’ll be in prime position to enable people to achieve their goals through sport.

Why study with us

  • You’ll develop your coaching and leadership skills under the expert guidance of lecturers who are highly qualified coaches and practitioners in a range of sporting disciplines.
  • Most lecturers are active researchers, so you’ll benefit from their passion and cutting-edge expertise.
  • Graduates from our programmes have gone on to a wide range of successful careers. Our alumni have been employed by some of the biggest names in professional sport, in the UK and abroad.
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What you'll do

  • Examine sports from socio-cultural and historical perspectives, along with the study of physical education, health and fitness.
  • You’ll also have the chance to study optional modules in sports management, coaching and development, and learn about major sporting issues and physical education in the UK and beyond.
  • The Sports Coaching and Development degree incorporates completing a range of recognised coaching qualifications as part of your degree.

Modules

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Please note the delivery information for this course is accurate for the academic year 2023/24. The information displayed in this section may not yet accurately reflect how the course will be delivered in 2024/25 but this information will be updated by December 2023.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Academic expertise

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Dr Craig Wright
Senior lecturer in Sports Coaching and Performance Analysis
School of Health, Social Work and Sport

Craig is responsible for the academic management and development of the MSc Sports Coaching. His teaching and practitioner focus is in applied sports coaching and coaching science. This includes performance analysis, performance assessment, applied coaching practice and physical …

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Matt Crowther
Pathway Leader - BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching and Performance
School of Health, Social Work and Sport

As a blended professional, Matt has combined his work as a Lecturer in Sports Coaching whilst continuing to coach Cricket within performance and development contexts. In his role, Matt teaches on a number of modules across the degree, including key coaching and performance module…

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Future careers

With a practical focus on professional skills, our BA (Hons) Sports Coaching and Development degree programme is designed to help you prepare for a career at the front line of sport.

Fees and funding

2024/25
UK
Full-time£9,250 per year
Sandwich year£1,500 for the sandwich year
Part-time£1,540 per 20 credits
International
Full-time£16,500 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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This course is based in the School of Health, Social Work and Sport

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