Sports Development and Coaching (top-up) BA

Want to champion sport and physical activity? If you’ve already completed a related foundation degree or HND, our BA (Hons) Sport Development and Coaching (top-up) course offers you honours-level skills and knowledge ready to boost your prospects for a career encouraging and enabling people to get active.Sport isn’t just for elite athletes – it’s for everyone. Passionate, effective and inspiring sport and physical activity development professionals and community coaches are needed to get people moving, help them gain skills and confidence in their physical abilities, develop their sporting potential and adopt active lifestyle habits. Our BA (Hons) in Sport Development and Coaching (top-up) course seeks to enhance your existing foundation degree or HND-level knowledge and skills, and expand your opportunities in this varied and rewarding sector.Expertly combining theory and practice, our dedicated team will guide you as you explore the principles, theories and methods of sport and physical activity development and coaching, as well as social, economic, and political factors affecting the industry. You’ll learn about the ways in which organisations work together to provide opportunities for sport, and different approaches used to engage and sustain physical activity among different inactive groups of the population.You’ll have opportunities to support and deliver practical coaching sessions and sport and physical activity projects with community groups, gaining the skills, knowledge and confidence to organise your own coaching projects, sports and activity events. Our ambition is to help you become a skilled sport and physical activity professional, ready for a career helping disadvantaged groups enjoy physical activity and wellbeing benefits.