Module SPRT2231: SPORTS POLICY AND PRACTICE

Department: APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES (SPORT)

SPRT2231: SPORTS POLICY AND PRACTICE

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• Enable students to gain a clear, critical understanding of sports policy and practice since 1995.
• The knowledge and understanding gained from this module should provide a good basis for the Level 3 module, Sport Policy and Health Promotion.

Content

• The module will focus on sports policy since 1995 and will examine the practical implications of delivering the ever-changing sporting agenda of successive governments.
• Initially, students will examine the sports strategy documents introduced since 1995: Sport, Raising the Game - 1995; A Sporting Future for All - 2000; A Sporting Future for All, One Year On - 2001; Game Plan: A Strategy for Delivering Government's Sport and Physical Activity Objectives - 2002.
• The focus will be on the changing agenda of successive Governments.
• Consideration will be given to the move away from sport for sports sake to a wider concept of sport and its role in delivering an agenda around social inclusion, economic regeneration, crime prevention and health.
• This broad review will be narrowed down into an in-depth consideration of Game Plan covering the four areas of grassroots sport, high performance sport, mega sporting events and delivery. Consideration will be given to the practical application of the policy both nationally and regionally in each of the four areas.
• The module will examine, throughout, the potential barriers and challenges to progress taking into account the new national framework for sport in England which is centred upon 'making England an active and successful sporting nation - a vision of 2020'.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the different sport policies introduced by successive governments since 1995.
• Explore, analyse and reflect critically on the Government's agenda for physical activity in the areas of economic regeneration, social deprivation, crime and health and well-being.

• Examine methods being used to practically implement the Government's programme around physical activity.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Teaching and learning will be centred round lectures and seminars and will allow opportunities for students to reflect and critically analyse government policy.
• Assessment will be centred upon a 2,500 word assignment that will require students to research and report on a specific aspect of sport policy and practice.
• The two-hour unseen examination will require students to review all aspects addressed within the module in order to answer specific questions on theoretical issues and practical considerations emanating from government policy on sport and the practical implementation of policy via specific initiatives and programmes.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Non-compulsory 1,000 - 1,500 word assignment.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University