BSc (Hons) Sport Performance (Top-Up)

Be on the ball with sports performance and specialise in an analytical or supportive profession within the exciting sports sector. Our Sport Performance Top-up Degree allows you to graduate with a full bachelor’s degree with honours, equipping you with everything you need to kickstart your sports performance career.

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Go for gold with our exciting degree programme enabling you to work with athletes to develop their knowledge of nutrition and physiology. As a sports performance specialist, you will apply your acquired knowledge to a professional context while enhancing your specialist knowledge and softer working skills.

You will use industry software such as STATS to perform sports analysis. Industry simulation assessments could also lead to paid analysis links with OPTA, analysis of BUCS events, and analysis of sports events with community and professional teams.

Your research dissertation will allow you to explore a personal area of interest which can then feed into your career specialism. You will develop transferable academic skills desired by employers including communication, critical thinking, problem solving and teamwork.

This course is subject to validation by The Open University.

Fee

£7,950 (per academic year)

Location

University Centre

Start Date

September 2021
September 2022

Duration

1 Year Full Time

Course Code

UCAS Course Code: 2C45 Institution code: L21

Study Mode

Full time

What you learn

Modules may include

Applied Nutrition for Athletes
Sport Science
Performance Analysis in Practice*
Research Methods
Dissertation

*Students also gain a Performance Analysis (STATS) Level 2 professional qualification on completion of this module.

Benefits/ skills you will develop

Developing students to become lifelong-learners is central to the learning and teaching strategy for the programme and as such, all the learning and teaching methods across the programme are designed to encourage all students to take a more independent approach to their learning.

You will develop a range of academic skills such as: presenting, referencing, research and writing, as well as many skills required by employers such as: communication, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and the use of IT.

You will also complete a research dissertation on an appropriate topic of your choice.

Assessment

Entry requirements

Foundation Degree in a Sports-Related subject with a 55% module average in year 2 (Level 5) or a Higher National Diploma in a Sports-Related subject based on a 50% merit or above profile in year 2.

GCSE Grade C in English and Maths (or equivalents).

In the absence of formal learning qualifications applications are welcomed from persons who can demonstrate relevant work experience, including work in a voluntary capacity (e.g. working at a professional club/organisation with full time elite athletes). The course structure actively supports claims for Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL).

International qualifications will be assessed against these criteria. Speakers of other languages will need to possess an IELTS band score of 6.0 (with no-less than 5.5 in any one element) or a recognised English Level 2 qualification.

Students will be subject to the DBS (Disclosure of Barring Services) process which will be applied for at the start of the course.

All applicants will be interviewed to assess their suitability for this programme of study and may be asked to provide evidence to support their application (e.g. accredited qualifications from sporting National Governing Bodies).

What’s next

Programme Specification

Course Handbook

The Open University Regulations

Staff Profiles

Student Testimonies/Case Studies