Sport Coaching BSc Welcome Pack
Welcome to Sport Coaching BSc 2023.
The BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching degree is designed to develop your key coaching skills and behaviours and to understand how our coaching styles and approaches influence our athletes.
The course will develop skills such as long-term planning, reflective practice, conducting athlete needs analysis and understanding pedagogy in different sporting environments. For sports coaches to take a holistic approach to their athletes’ development we need to have an understanding the physiological, technical, psychological, and social factors that feed into the long-term athlete development. As well as developing performance analysis skills and putting all our practical coaching skills into the real world, through our local clubs and organisations.
You can expect to study in your first semester (September 2023-January 2024) the following modules:
- SPO1039 – How to be successful (Module Leader – Dr Emma Buxton)
- SPO1024 – Introduction to Sport and Exercise Psychology (Module Leader – Dr Rob Lyon)
- SPO1041 – Sport Coaching Practice (Module Leader – Matt Wood)
In the second semester (January 2024-May 2024), you can expect to study the following modules:
- SPO1042 – Sport Coaching Science (Module Leader – Dr Emma Buxton)
- SPO1028 – The Social Context of Sport (Module Leader – James Mason)
- SPO1011 – Sport Pedagogy for Coaching (Module Leader – Karen Woolley)
Your Programme Leader
Dr Emma Buxton
Lecturer in Sport Coaching
emma.buxton@northampton.ac.uk
Welcome and Induction Session
We are aware that starting at university can be a big life event and so to welcome you to BSc Sport Coaching and help you understand how everything works, and we would like to invite you to a pre-induction online chat:
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, near the start of term you will be given a choice of certain offers. You can choose between a free laptop, £500 off accommodation and campus credit, however, 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.
Enhancing skills, building networks and engaging in the wider University community
We recommend that you create a LinkedIn profile and join our University of Northampton Sports Network as this can help you with placement positions, jobs and future employment. It is not compulsory, but it will help.
You will need to provide a profile picture on your account and a title explaining that you are a ‘First Year Undergraduate Sport Coaching BSc Student’ and then connect with Saul Cuttell to ask to be admitted to the group.