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BSc (Hons)

Sports Coaching and Development (Top Up)

The Sports Coaching and Development (Top Up) degree will consolidate your learning from a Foundation Degree in an associated area and prepare you to work in a multitude of coaching, teaching and development roles.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Online

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • Home students

    £9,535*

  • Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.

Focusing on both the sport and business-related knowledge needed to develop professionals for the sports industry, you will consolidate your learning and start to specialise your work-based learning experience in line with your career ambitions.

DESIGNED FOR

Students that have completed a Foundation Degree (or equivalent), either from a partner college or a professional sports club through the English Football League in the Community.

Career Paths

  • Teaching
  • Community Sports Coaching
  • Professional/Elite Coaching
  • Sports Management Roles
  • Sports Development Roles

Skills taught

  • Communication 
  • Problem Solving
  • Leadership
  • Teamworking
  • Analytical Skills

Course Highlights

Blended & Work Based Learning

Students will undertake their studies at a local EFL club. Your lectures will be produced by USW staff, but you will watch these remotely at your club's learning environment.

Residential Visits

The residentials provide an opportunity for students to build relationship with peers, complete synchronous lectures, undertake practical assessments and hear from industry experts such as international and professional coaches.

Academic Support

The EFLitC employ a team of Higher Education Programme Officers (HEPO’s) to support learners on the programme. The ADO’s travel the country and provided a range of services such as 1-1 tutorials and academic skills workshops.

UEFA B License

Eligible students will get the opportunity to apply for a place on a UEFA B Licence course which is exclusive to USW students and sits outside the regular domestic courses operated by FAW Coach Education.

We make a difference in practice, not just on paper. Our courses are designed by people who offer jobs - and taught by people who have real work experience.

Football coaching student talking to a group of children during a coaching session at the Sport Park
Three sport students during placement at a football stadium
Group of football students taking part in a training session at the sport park
Two sport students sat together at a table focusing on a laptop

Module Overview

The BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching and Development (Top Up) course is a natural progression from the FdSc Sports Coaching and Development course delivered at a Partner Club hub (EFLitC) or a Partner College (Merthyr or Coleg Gwent). And has two distinct routes of study: Blended or On-Campus Learning.

To study this degree, you will need a formalised affiliation with a professional sports club under the formalised affiliation with a Club Community Organisation through EFLitC. Your lectures will be produced by USW staff, but you will watch these remotely at your club's learning environment. 

Creatively Teaching Physical Education, Health and Wellbeing  

Critical Issues in Sports Coaching and Leadership  

Strategic Sports Development 

Leadership in Sport 

Applied Professional Project

If you choose the on-campus route, you’ll gain direct entry onto Year three of the BSc Sports Coaching and Development course delivered out of our world-class USW Sport Park facility.

Applied Professional Project

Dissertation

Leadership in Sport

Critical Issues in Sports Coaching and Leadership

Creatively Teaching Physical Education, Health and Wellbeing 

Work-Based Learning

Applied Sports Coaching

Strategic Sports Development

Contemporary Issues in Sports Development  

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

If you choose the Blended Learning route, You will complete work-based learning that is managed by your Club Mentor and supported by USW staff through tutorials and a mentoring programme. It is expected that you will complete between 7 and 14-hours per week of work-based learning.

If you choose the On-Campus route, Most lectures/tutorials will be small groups (around 20-40 students) which provides a more interactive and personal approach. Most modules are studied over the year for 24 weeks (two 12-week terms) but some are delivered more intensively during a term.

Teaching staff

Each student will be supported not only by academic module leaders but will also be encouraged to engage in 1 to1 academic support coach sessions throughout the year with the course specific Personal Academic Coaches. 

Lecturers on the sports coaching degree have all worked in the sports coaching and/or development industry; some have played and coached at a professional/elite level. 

Staff have experience of coordinating and managing sport in local authorities, sports clubs and national governing bodies of sport, and bring this real-life knowledge and experience into the classroom. 

Placements

As part of the Applied Professional Project module, you’ll complete 140-hours of placement. Within this you’re required to design and manage a project, delivering some form of activities for your placement host. Students can take a work placement with one of our partner organisations such as Wales Golf, StreetGames, Hockey Wales, Welsh Netball and Sport RCT.

Facilities

We have a brand-new specially designed sporting performance facility that focuses on coaching. Our full-size indoor 3G pitch is built to the Fifa Pro standard. 

There are audio and video recording software to support the coach education programme that students will be immersed in during studies. We are the only university in England and Wales to offer this facility. 

Our facilities are regularly used by international professional teams, such as the Wales National football team and Cardiff City Football Club, as well as the touring New Zealand, South Africa and Australia rugby squads. This confirms the high quality of our pitches and the versatility of our equipment.

Careers and Employability

Possible career paths

Students graduating from this degree may progress to roles as Community Sports Coaches, Sports Development Officers, various positions within the Leisure industry, Sports Managers and business owners. Students will also access further study required to become a Primary or Secondary School Teacher.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

This course is delivered predominantly online and not available to International Students wishing to reside in the UK on a student VISA as formal affiliation with a UK EFLitC sports club is required.

The successful completion of an appropriate Foundation Degree or equivalent. USW considers all applications on an individual basis which means that we could make offers based on qualifications, personal profile and experience.

Additional Requirements:

In addition a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check is required (additional cost applies, no offences are considered spent).

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

UK Full-time Fee

£9,535

per year*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Bursaries Cost of Living Support

ADDITIONAL COSTS

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment. 

*Obligatory

University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

How to apply

You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time.)

Advanced entry

If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.