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Undergraduate Handbook 2006-2007 (archived)

Module SPRT2161: COACHING IN SPORT

Department: Applied Social Sciences (Sport)

SPRT2161: COACHING IN SPORT

Type	Level	Credits	Availability	Module Cap	Location
Tied	2	20	Available in 2006/2007	None.	Durham

Tied To

Pre-requisites

None.

Corequisites

For Sport in the Community students, Sport and Performance 2, Sport and Exercise Physiology II, Sport and Education, Research Methods, Combined Honours students : refer to degree regulations.

Excluded Combinations

None.

Aims

To allow students to develop:
a personal philosophy of coaching.
a sound knowledge and understanding of the cyclical process of planning, implementing and evaluating coaching programmes.

Content

The module is designed to explore both theoretical issues and practical considerations in coaching.
There is a focus on the coaching of young performers, although other performer groups are addressed.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge

Students should be able to: discuss how to plan safe and effective programmes of work to enhance performance in a variety of sports.
explain how components of fitness can be developed within a progressive programme.
discuss the work of key, relevant agencies.

Subject-specific Skills

explain techniques and tools employed in the analysis of performance and how information obtained may be used to inform planning and coaching.
analyse a range of coaching styles and examine coach effectiveness.

Key Skills

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

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total Hours
Lectures	19	weekly	1 hours	19
Tutorials	2	1 in term 1, 1 in term 3	1 hour	2
Practicals	3	1 in term 1, 2 in term 2	2 hours	6
Other (to undertake a coaching award)	Variable	At students discretion	20 hours	20
Preparation and Reading				153
Total				200

Summative Assessment

Component	Component Weighting	Element	Length/Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Examination	60%	one examination		100%
Assignment	40%	2500 word assignment		100%

Formative Assessment

1 formative assignment (optional) - 1,000 words.

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.