Course summary

The foundation year of this Coventry University degree will be delivered from our CU Coventry campus. Course delivery from year 1 of the degree course onwards will be from Coventry University campus. This course aims to provide you with a solid grounding for a professional career in the sports and psychology sectors. The foundation year covers key themes such as professional skills, inequality, social determinants and communications. It seeks to develop your key skills, such as research methods, scientific fundamentals and promotion techniques. Students who successfully complete their foundation year will then progress onto the Sport and Exercise Psychology BSc (Hons) degree within Coventry University’s School of Psychological, Social and Behavioural Sciences. The degree demonstrates applications of psychology to sport, exercise and broader global contexts. The aim is to provide a holistic understanding of psychological perspectives and their real-life application to sport and exercise environments (e.g. physical activity to promote mental health). The degree includes theory, research, and applications of psychological perspectives, methods, and interventions in global contexts of sport and exercise. This is supplemented by the development of professional levels of transferable, practical and cognitive skills. The aim is to enable graduates to attain the skills and knowledge to confidently progress to their chosen career path in an international arena.   You will develop critical awareness and understanding of the core BPS (British Psychological Society) curriculum. A thematic approach includes specialised and contemporary content across a range of sport and exercise settings e.g., perspectives in sport and exercise, from the origins to future sport and exercise psychology, multiagency sport and exercise psychology, applied sport and exercise psychology, neuropsychology in sport and exercise. mental health and wellbeing, psychology of popular culture, professional practice. Key benefits of the degree

• Opportunity to gain a critical appreciation of how psychology can be applied to real world questions, cross-cultural and diverse situations across global contexts

• Focus on employability: developing transferable, practical and cognitive skills (e.g. critical analysis, problem solving, and leadership) and our ‘Enhanced Skills in Psychology Scheme’ that provides opportunity for work experience, putting you in an excellent position to secure postgraduate education or employment in an increasingly competitive graduate education and job market

• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects enhances international awareness through multi-cultural communication and peer interaction at partner institutions (subject to availability)

• Opportunities to participate in exciting field trips to a range of overseas destinations, which have previously included Europe and the United States