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Within the sport portfolio that we offer, we have a range of different disciplines.
For example, in Carlisle we have programmes on Physical Education, we also have a Sport Therapy programme
and foundation degrees in Coaching. Here at Lancaster, we have programmes
in Coaching and Sport Development, Sport and Exercise Science and then Sport, Physical Activity and Health Development.
I think what's really exciting about the sport degree programmes
here at the University of Cumbria is that employers have helped us to design the degrees,
so they're really vocationally geared. This means that students are really
acquiring some fantastic vocational skills and, of course, experience, coupled with the
core knowledge that they need to undertake for the successful completion of the programme.
If I give you some examples, in the final year Event Management module, the students have to plan
and deliver an event over a 10 or 12 week time span. So it might encompass about 100
school pupils. There are great skills there in terms of planning, managing the logistical
aspects of the event, managing finance and then obviously, in terms of the overall evaluation
of how successful that event has been. Because of the strength of our industry relationships,
we've been able to provide more innovative programmes over and above what students would
experience typically through the usual course delivery. One great example is the Street Games project.
This involves about £1000 of funding from a local authority
and students helping to deliver a Friday night youth inclusion project here on our own astoturf.
The BA Coaching and Sport Development course is a really exciting course and there's a
couple of key strengths to the course. The first and foremost is that it's a course which
has been designed with employers in mind. That way, we've built in some of the skills
that employers in coaching and sport development require. So our students benefit from learning
skills on planning, the delivering of coaching sessions, but also sport development topics
such as how to apply for funding applications, how to target under represented groups in sport.
I'm on the Coaching and Sport Development course. I'm in my third year now, so I've
been through all the different years. It's an absolutely brilliant course because you
get a bit of a range of everything. You get the coaching side, the developing side and
you also get a bit of sport science. The background to sport and ethics and all that.
Our first year is very good for students because it has a practical, vocational module, but
it also has some strong, theoretical modules on anatomy and physiology, psychology, sociology
and philosophy. This give our students a good, strong academic underpinning, and when the students
go out into placements in their second year and when they deliver a lot of practical work
in their third year. That practical work is underpinned by the most up to date research
that they've already learnt in their first year.
Well, going to an open day really opens your eyes to the university. It shows you what
facilities it's got, if they're right for you. You get shown around the faculties and
stuff and you get to meet the senior lecturers. Yeah, it's definitely a good idea to come
and have a look at the place. It's quite a small university compared to some, but that's
what I really liked about it, because it was like a nice little family, really.