Sports Coaching with Community Health and Physical Activity with Foundation Year
Entry requirements
UCAS Tariff
A typical offer will require a UCAS Tariff score between 32 - 56. Every application is considered on an individual basis. For further details of our international English entry requirements, please visit our General Entry Requirements pages.
About this course
This course includes an additional year as a foundation year. This begins at the start of the course and will help prepare you for full time undergraduate study. The foundation year is intended for those who didn't meet the entry requirements for the course or want to take an additional year to prepare for study. At the end you will still receive the BSc award.
This course has a shared first year across multiple specialisms. After your first year, if you want to study a different specialism you can choose to change between BA (Hons) Sports Coaching with Physical Education, Sports Coaching with Business, and BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching with Performance Sport.
**Why study at BNU?**
By studying this course with us, you’ll have the opportunity to look at athlete development and analysis when spending time in our state-of-the-art Human Performance Laboratory. As well as the degree qualification, you’ll also have the opportunity to take UKCC coaching certifications and Sports Coach UK awards.
Here at BNU, we always encourage our students to get as much industry experience as possible. Our strong links with industry partners will enable you to seek volunteering and paid work opportunities. This, along with our practical approach to the course, will give you a deeper understanding of the professional environment and type of career that awaits you beyond graduation.
We also pride ourselves on the amazing opportunities we offer our students to start forming their own networks within industry. This means not only will you have access to first-hand accounts from those on the ‘front-line’ while you study, but you’ll also make priceless connections for when the time comes to jump into your first job.
We work with some incredible partners like the National Sports Centre at Bisham Abbey which is home to several governing bodies in sport, Leap (County Sports Partnership), Stoke Mandeville Hospital (the famous birthplace of the Paralympics), Reading Ladies Football Club and the National League basketball team, London United, to name just a few.
**What will I study?**
This pathway introduces you to knowledge of hard-to-reach populations, government policies and strategies related to health and wellbeing, and the organisations that deliver sport and physical activity at the non-elite, participatory level. This pathway would be great for you if you have ambitions of engaging your local community in sport, supporting vulnerable people, working in or helping to set up local community clubs and engaging with your local sports teams.
**Career prospects**
Throughout your time with us we’ll support you on the route to your chosen career. We’ll help you to develop crucial skills, encouraging you to become enterprising, employable and good leaders. We also help you find employment after graduation. Have a look at our Careers and Employability pages to find out more.
Many of our graduates go on to have careers as a PE Teacher, work in education or sports coaching and contribute greatly to society using the skills they gained on this pathway. Some students also enter community work or pursue other sports-related careers after graduation, and your career prospects are exciting.
Our pathway will help prepare you for a range of career possibilities, such as:
- sports coach
- teaching
- sports teacher
- nutritionist
- sports management
- marketing
- corporate position within sport
Modules
**Foundation Year**
**Core**
Preparing for Success: Knowledge and Creativity
Preparing for Success: Self Development and Responsibility
Inquiry Based Learning
Introduction to Sport Development and Performance
**Year one**
**Core**
Introduction to Coaching
Introduction to Research in Sport
Sport in Society
Introduction to Sport and Exercise Psychology
Human Systems and Movement
**Opportunity Modules**
2x 10 credit year one Opportunity modules
**Year two**
**Core**
Coaching and Pedagogy in Practice
Inclusive Practice in Sport and Physical Activity
Performance Analysis
Research Methods
Physical Activity and Sport in the Community
Working in Community Sport and Physical Activity
**Year three**
**Core**
Coaching Leadership
Extended Independent Work
Contemporary Issues in Sport and Physical Education
Strategies in Sport
**Option Modules**
Skills Acquisition
Skills in Leadership, Enterprise and Small Business
Assessment methods
Our programme combines a theoretical and practical approach to teaching to meet your learning objectives. You will learn how to engage with the sports coaching industry in a variety of capacities at both the elite and grass-roots levels.
Assessment tasks are used as far as possible to link theory with practice, assessing knowledge and understanding alongside subject-specific skills as your modules are completed. Team working is incorporated into the programme to help you engage in more complex projects, getting you familiar with how you’ll work with colleagues in your future career.
Assessments are a mix of coursework, including essays and reports, and practical and authentic modes of showing your knowledge, including presentations, portfolios, team projects, lab practical’s, and the production and delivery of coaching plans. Some of the ways you will be assessed include:
essays
reports
case study analysis
presentations
reflective writing and portfolios
team projects
lab sessions
production and delivery of coaching plans
Tuition fees
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Extra funding
Buckinghamshire New University offers a range of bursaries and scholarships. For more information, please visit https://www.bucks.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/financial-support-bursaries-and-scholarships
The Uni
Buckinghamshire New University
School of Human and Social Sciences
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Top job areas of graduates
One of the fastest growing subjects in the country, the number of sports science graduates went from under 3,000 in 2003 to over 10,000 in 2013. Numbers have fallen slightly since 2015, but we still have over 9,000 graduates in the subject. However, the good news is the country's appetite for good health and fitness - and the adaptability of graduates in the subject - means that sports science grads are less likely than average to be out of work. Sports science graduates, not surprisingly, tend to get jobs in sport, fitness and health - coaching and teaching especially - but they're found all over the economy. Management and business are also popular options for graduates from this subject — and sports science graduates are particularly found where drive, determination and physical fitness are an advantage.
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Sport and exercise sciences
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