esports BSc Welcome Pack
Welcome to esports BSc 2023.
Welcome to the BSc esports course at the University of Northampton.
Our course focuses on the educational, professional, and ethical principles that underpin esports. It is practical-based, stimulating, well-structured and research-informed, covering a range of topic areas including esports coaching, performance, events, management, marketing and media. We focus too on the applied nature of the course and as a result have a lot of practical elements using our purpose-built laboratories to develop your technical skills and understanding of the key issues within esports. We are also proud to state that we have a partnership collaboration with the International Federation of Esports Coaches (IFoEC) which helps develop our students’ esports coaching and performance specialism and employability prospects after graduation.
You can expect to study in your first semester (September 2023- January 2024) the following modules:
- SPO1052 – Ready Player 1. Gameplay and Academic Skills
- SPO1055 – esports Business Fundamentals
- SPO1053 – esports Event Fundamentals
In the second semester (January 2024-May 2024) you can expect to study the following modules: - SPO1054 – Digital esports Marketing
- SPO1051 – Doing Sport and Exercise Psychology in the Digital Age
- SPO1050 – Understanding esports Media
Your Programme Leader
Dr Lucy Zhu
BSc esports Programme Leader
Welcome and Induction Session
To welcome you to esports, please attend our online session:
Equipment
You are not required to purchase any mandatory kit or textbooks to start this course. As a heavily practical based course students will require sportwear for many modules. We will provide all students with one of our course branded t-shirts, and students can purchase further course branded kit from Kit Locker. While purchasing this is not mandatory, we do encourage students to consider an additional pair of tracksuit bottoms/leggings for circumstances when completing work based learning activities and representing both our course and institution.
Additionally, at the start of term you will be given a choice of certain offers (i.e. free laptop, £500 off accommodation etc.) we would highly recommend and advise you to pick the laptop offer because you will be required throughout the three years of your degree to use different software. Please note that it is not a gaming PC – but it can support Riot Games at least!