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BSc Sport Coaching

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Institution
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Sport Coaching
Duration
3 years full time or 4 years full time including foundation year. Also available part time and can be up to 8 years. The part-time students join the full-time students for all modules. Therefore, most of the modules are completed between 9am and 6pm on weekdays.
UCAS code
C603
Typical offer
A-level BB

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff: 104-112 A level: Three A levels to include grade BB. No specific subjects required. Welsh Advanced Skills Baccalaureate considered as a third subject. BTEC/Cambridge Technical: DMM IB: Higher Level Grade 6. No specific subjects required.

About this course

BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science, combining sport coaching with exercise science. Core topics include Ethics & Professional Practice. Practical experience begins in the first year, and the course emphasizes critical reflection. The programme includes professional placements, interactive lectures, seminars, and a final project.

Modules

  • Professional and Academic Development
  • Coaching Practice: Design and Delivery
  • Understanding Sport Coaching Relationships
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Sport Coach as Educator
  • Placement: Developing Personal and Professional Practice
  • Coaching with Performance Data
  • Nutrition: Macro and Micronutrients
  • Fundamentals of Strength and Conditioning
  • Personal Training for Public Health
  • Sport, Health and Society
  • Sport Performance Analysis
  • Sport Development: Context and Challenges
  • Sustainable Development and Sport
  • Dance Education
  • Models-Based Practice
  • Sport Ethics
  • Creating Sport Content – Video for Social Media
  • Final Project
  • Placement: Sport Coaches as Agents-for-Change
  • Coaching the Coach
  • Strength and Conditioning Coaching
  • Nutrition in Sport and Exercise
  • Ethical Issues in Sport
  • Sociology of Sports and Physical Cultures
  • Sport Development in Action: Policy, Process and Practice
  • Applied Interdisciplinary Practice
  • Managing High Performance Sport
  • Digital Voice: Communicating Sport Through Podcasting