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Programme Offerings
Full-Time
Educational Aims of the Course
The MSc in Sports Performance Analysis aims to develop the students’ theoretical knowledge and practical skills in sport(s) performance analysis. It will provide a contemporary theoretical and practical performance analysis curriculum that develops ‘evidence informed practitioners’ with transferable skills necessary for employment in sports performance roles requiring initiative and personal responsibility, decision-making in complex situations, the interpersonal skills to disseminate complex information in an understandable format to professional and lay audiences. It embeds across the curriculum independent learning-ability required for continuing professional development in their sports performance analysis careers to provide innovative and contemporary solutions to sports performance analysis across individual and/or team sport settings.
Specific Course Aims.
• Offer an opportunity to develop and progress a career by providing a rigorous, in-depth, and relevant focus on applied and academic sports performance analysis skills.
• Develop students’ understanding, and their ability to apply knowledge and analyses to various contexts through a range of opportunities, including the use of their own work experience, case studies, performance analysis scenarios, presentations, and problem-based learning exercises.
• Provide a framework that supports students to develop their confidence and capabilities in using appropriate techniques and research methodologies to pursue their chosen project.
• Promote a lively, creative, and collaborative learning environment, where dialogue and exchange are supported and students from a broad range of backgrounds are encouraged to engage in experimentation and heuristic learning.
• Foster a critical, analytical, and reflective approach that enables students to determine their research ambitions and identify and test appropriate methods to achieve them.
• Enable students to develop and present a substantial body of practical and theoretical work, demonstrating an appropriate level of professional and intellectual attainment that supports further study or professional practice.
• Develop the students’ understanding of recent/up to date sports performance analysis technologies and practices.
Learning Outcomes
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
In Semester 1 and 2 (September to May) students will engage with a blended-learning approach through live online lessons, face-to-face lectures and tutorial/seminars which constitute the formal elements of the course and are essential activities that will support the development of learning outcomes. The face-to-face sessions are action-oriented and student-centred to encourage ‘deep’ as opposed to ‘surface’ learning, and give students the opportunity to apply their understanding to various performance analysis scenarios. In addition, students will have online tutorials with their tutor(s),and will have asynchronous online activities (reading, tasks, and assignments) to do in their own time. In Semester three, students will work both face-to-face and online with their individual supervisor on their research dissertation. The blended approach undertaken on this programme includes: (1) Online asynchronous material (readings, tasks, lectures, discussion boards); (2) Online synchronous (live) sessions (seminars, workshops, practical’s guest lectures); (4) Face-to-face and online tutorial support.