Course Catalogue

The programme is designed to provide students with Stage 1 training in sport psychology (the first step towards becoming a Sport Psychologist) and delivers the core curriculum outlined by the BPS Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology. The programme also provides a strong research methods element that is designed to provide further depth to the core curriculum by grounding this training in specific sport psychology concepts and making explicit, the links between theory and practice. Specific educational aims are to: Prepare students with the means to enhance their own experience of sport psychology. Prepare students for employment in the field of sport psychology. Prepare students for more general employment through the development of transferable skills. Prepare students to undertake post graduate research in the field of sports psychology. Enable students to demonstrate an integrated and critical appreciation of conceptual and methodological issues in sport psychology. Enable students to demonstrate expertise in appropriate research methods in sport psychology. Enable students to demonstrate mastery of appropriate conceptual material in sport psychology.

Throughout the programme an appropriate mixture of lectures, seminars, online teaching, tutorials and practical workshops encourage critical engagement with a range of theoretical and applied topics. Self-directed reading forms a significant part of the students study time. The programme has a diverse range of assessment modes, including essays, oral presentations, consultancy reports, reflective accounts, research proposal and ethics application and a research paper and viva.

There is an opportunity to complete a placement on the Professional Practice module. This requires students to provide theoretically informed accounts and engage in critical discussion about professional practice issues relating to their placement experience.