Serious about sports coaching? This Sports Coaching & Performance Foundation Entry degree will develop your academic knowledge, skills and understanding of the coaching process.
Foundation Entry degree courses are ideal if you’ve got the ability to study for a degree, but don’t have the necessary formal qualifications to directly join an honours programme. It’s a great stepping stone to a full degree.
We’ve shaped a degree to give you the skills, experiences and networks that can thrust you to the forefront of coaching practice. It’s a programme rooted in applied practice – ensuring that you have plenty of opportunities to turn academic theory into action, with vocational experiences in the real world of professional and amateur sport.
With a range of option modules, you can tailor your degree to your passions, strengths and career goals. By focusing on all areas of athlete development, you can create a path into performance analysis, talent development and elite environments. You’ll gain professional body qualifications throughout, so you’ll be ready for a professional career when you graduate.
Whatever direction you take, you’ll cover various topics that aid player development and underpin performance coaching. Then, in your final year, you’ll undertake an independent project – your chance to develop your specialist area of knowledge that will set you apart.
Why study with us
- You’ll explore coaching in a range of settings, including community, grassroots, elite, international and disability sport.
- You’ll develop transferable vocational skills as you progress through the programme.
- There’s also the option to specialise in specific areas that interest you, from match analysis, strength and conditioning to sports psychology and sport and international development.
What you'll do
- The programme covers a range of physical, technical and psychological elements that underpin performance coaching.
- There’s a focus on developing your professional and academic skills as you acquire the knowledge that’s essential for a career in performance coaching.
- You’ll have opportunities to supplement teaching with real world practical experiences and opportunities.
Module overview
Compulsory modules
• TLC130: Foundations in Sport, Physical Activity & Health
• TLC131: Academic and Personal Development in Sport, Physical Activity and Health
Year 1
Compulsory modules
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TL1110: Coaching Toolkit
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TLII: Improving Performance
• TL1112: The Development Environment
Year 2
Compulsory modules
• TL2095: Research and Enterprise for Sport
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TL2096: Performance Enhancement
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TL2233: The Reflective Coach
Optional modules
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TL2026: Performance Analysis for Sport
• TL2072: Talent Pathways
• TL2098: School and Community Sports Development
• TL2105: Sport for International Development
• TL2118: Coaching Practice Experience
Year 3
Compulsory modules
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TL3167: The Critically Reflective Coach
Optional modules
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TL3102: Dissertation
• TL3147: Applied Performance Analysis for High Performance Sport
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TL3158: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise in Sport, Health & Wellbeing
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TL3167: The Critically Reflective Coach
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TL3169: Talent Development Systems
• TL3170: Coaching Practice Experience II
• TL3172: Consultancy Project
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TL3179: The Performance Environment for Sport
Course delivery
This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.
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.
Future careers
As a graduate of our Sport programmes, you could go on to become a Community Sport Coaching Officer, Physical Education Teacher, Sports Development Manager or a Match Analyst. This course opens doors to a whole world of varied career paths in sports coaching.
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