MSc/PgDip/PgCert Leading and Managing Sport Development
Part-time
Subject to validation
You focus on evaluating strategic and operational aspects of sport development
This course is designed for professionals working within sport development settings such as • local authorities • county sport partnerships • national governing bodies • professional sports clubs • voluntary organisations • private sector consultants.
It is for people who want to develop their theoretical, academic and practical skills to understand, lead and manage changes in sport.
You must have good communication skills, leadership qualities and an interest in working in public, private or voluntary sport settings.
The course helps you to become a self-motivated sport development manager, and develops the interpersonal skills you need to work with individuals and groups in a professional setting.
Managing the rapid changes taking place in sport development, and the relationship with numerous providers of sport and physical activity is crucial, for the successful implementation of government strategies. It requires highly qualified and skilled professionals with excellent leadership qualities.
This course responds to the needs of many new and established professions that are now required to work cohesively, and increases your knowledge of contemporary sport development principles.
Learning is flexible. You can study at a time convenient for you, fitting it around your personal and workrelated commitments. You can also pursue areas of special interest and take modules relevant to your future career.
Through our close links with industry and our extensive research and consultancy activities, we ensure that our courses reflect current thinking. We’ve invested heavily in the sport and active lifestyle programme and our associated research centres. This ensures you have access to excellent facilities and one of the finest suites of sport and exercise science laboratories in the UK.
You also benefit from
• individual study plans agreed with the course leader
• dedicated support from module leaders
• help using distance learning material and accessing other information services
• online access to e-learning and subscribed databases
• the opportunity to network with other students taking the course
Related course
You may also be interested in our MSc Leading and Managing Physical Education and Youth Sport.
Attendance
Part-time – typically two years
You may need to attend for some evening, weekend and study week sessions
Starts September
Admissions office
For further information contact the Course Advice and Information Team, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB. Phone 0114 225 5555, fax 0114 225 2167 or e-mail course-info@shu.ac.uk
For an application form see www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
Fees
For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
For academic year 2010/11
Home and EU students
Typically £1,620 a stage for PgCert and PgDip stages, plus £840 for MSc stage
Assessment
• sport development reports • timed examinations • timed assessments • oral presentations • project reports • work-based learning and consultancy reports • development of research proposals more>>
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