Sports Studies

Course summary

These courses are designed to provide highly specialist, work-related qualifications in a range of vocational sport sectors. They provide learners with the knowledge, understanding and skills to prepare for employment in the sporting industry. Both of these qualifications aim to develop knowledge, understanding and skills of the principles of Sport and Physical Activity. Students will gain an insight into the sector as they investigate opportunities for delivery to a wide range of participants, whether it is to mobilise sedentary people to improve their health or to support regular participants in improving performance and fitness. Students will also gain core skills required for employment or further study in sectors such as communication, analysis, organisation and adaptation. The course covers a wide range of centre-assessed units with practical and wider project-based assessment opportunities, as well as externally examined units on the body systems and the long and short-term impacts of sport and physical activity; how sport is organised and the purpose of sports development; health and safety requirements; the purpose of, and how to conduct, research in sport and physical activity; how sport businesses are organised and what success looks like to them.