Overview

This top-up degree program allows you to progress on to a top-up route on a full or part-time basis when you have completed a foundation degree in a sport and exercise discipline.

You develop your research and laboratory skills alongside your abilities in critical thinking, problem-solving and reflective practice to enhance your employment potential.

Course details

You develop a multidisciplinary approach to measuring and analyzing activities from sport and exercise. Developing practical data collection techniques from the fields of physiology, psychology, and biomechanics, you evaluate the techniques. You also develop your ability to analyze activities from a holistic perspective and prescribe suitable interventions to enhance performance. For your assessment, you produce a 4,000-word report. As part of the report, you write reflectively about the impact of your module on your personal and professional development.

Applied Sports Psychology

You gain a comprehensive understanding of the theory and practice of applied sport psychology. As well as improving your knowledge and skills, you develop insight and an understanding of the role of the sport psychologist in elite and recreational sport, including both performance enhancement and holistic sport psychology. You explore key issues around providing sports psychology support to individuals and teams. Investigating how to design and implement psychological interventions, you develop an understanding of the ethical issues which underpin professional practice in sport psychology support services. You develop key employability skills including communication, creative problem solving, maintaining professional standards, and critical reflection of your own practice. For your assessment, you complete a 4,000-word case study. You build a profile of an athlete, then design and implement an intervention to address the athlete’s needs in an area of performance enhancement.

Dissertation for Sport And Excercise 

You build on the research skills you have developed throughout your previous study to produce a 10,000-word dissertation. You negotiate a research area with your dissertation supervisor and carry out your research project.

Methods of Enquiry in Sports and Excercise

You develop your understanding of the methods of inquiry associated with sport and exercise. You acquire skills related to research design, reflective practice, ethics, writing research proposals, and data analysis. You also critically evaluate current literature from an area of sport and exercise to inform your research proposal for the study that you carry out as part of your dissertation. For your assessment, you produce a 4,000-word written research proposal and complete the ethical approval process.

Physical Education, Physical Activity And Sport

Physical education is an integral part of the curriculum in most schools and should involve pupils in the continuous process of planning, performing, and evaluating in all areas of activity. Children who participate in sport and physical activity should have a quality experience and be given the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

The assessment for this module is a presentation, group practices, and essay-style saw exam.

How you learn

Modules are delivered on one afternoon and evening (of the same day) each week for part-time students and over two days for full-time students. You experience a range of learning and teaching methods including lectures, seminars, weekend workshops, laboratory sessions, problem-based learning, reflective practice, and independent research.

The program is structured to move from a tutor-led focus in the first term to independent study in the later stages of the program.

How you are assessed

A variety of assessments are used throughout the program to ensure you have a range of opportunities to demonstrate your learning. Assessment includes written reports, a literature review with a critically evaluative summary to inform the dissertation research proposal, a portfolio, and a 10,000-word dissertation.