Sport Management BSc (Hons)
i2i International Soccer Academy

Academic skills when studying away from your home country can differ due to cultural and language differences in teaching and assessment practices. This module is designed to support your transition in the use and practice of technical language and subject specific skills around assessments and teaching provision in your chosen subject. The overall aim of this module is to develop your abilities to read and study effectively for academic purposes; to develop your skills in analysing and using source material in seminars and academic writing and to develop your use and application of language and communications skills to a higher level.

The topics you will cover on the module include:

• Understanding assignment briefs and exam questions.
• Developing academic writing skills, including citation, paraphrasing, and summarising.
• Practising ‘critical reading’ and ‘critical writing’
• Planning and structuring academic assignments (e.g. essays, reports and presentations).
• Avoiding academic misconduct and gaining credit by using academic sources and referencing effectively.
• Listening skills for lectures.
• Speaking in seminar presentations.
• Presenting your ideas
• Giving discipline-related academic presentations, experiencing peer observation, and receiving formative feedback.
• Speed reading techniques.
• Developing self-reflection skills.

The 20-credit yearlong Unilang modules (stages 1 – 5 depending on language) aim to encourage a positive attitude to language learning and to develop and practise the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing introducing the basic/increasingly complex grammatical structures and vocabulary of the spoken and written language (depending on stage) and developing your ability to respond appropriately in spoken and written form in simple and increasingly complex everyday situations.

These modules also introduce you to the country and the culture of the country. In doing this, Unilang modules are intended to encourage and support international mobility; to enhance employability at home and abroad; to improve communication skills in the foreign language and in English as well as cultural awareness.

The module aims to develop your skills of independent working by engaging with a topic of your own choosing. You will develop a critical and in-depth knowledge of a specific area (within the remit of your degree programme) in relation to a research or clinical problem of contemporary relevance to the industry/profession. You will learn aspects of research such as literature searching, filtering and quality assessment, project design considerations, ethical implications and data analysis methods. You will develop skills such as time management, contingency planning and critical thinking to produce a well-planned, coherent and ethical project.

You will learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate a sport event. This module is designed to provide you with a vocationally-relevant sport management experience, founded upon theoretical principles. You are required to work in a group to plan and deliver a sports event, and then individually evaluate one aspect of the event. The module is intended to promote entrepreneurship and creativity as well as personal and collective responsibility by means of a real-life challenge.

On this module you will conduct a critical analysis of sport event literature, evaluate planning models, conduct market research, and reflect on the acquisition of graduate attributes, such as;
· Creativity
· Resilience;
· Teamwork and leadership;
· Advanced communication skills;
· Entrepreneurship and Employability;
· Cultural awareness and ethical behaviour within the sport environment.

Planning, implementing, and evaluating a sports event is challenging. It will test your knowledge and skills across a number of academic disciplines. Similarly, the live project assessments will add a new dimension to your learning experience. They are designed to be authentic, as such you will have a significant degree of autonomy in how you develop your team, conceptualise your event plan, and begin the implementation process. Due to the autonomous, yet supportive, teaching philosophy adopted on this module, you will find it a highly rewarding experience.

Generally through your active engagement with this module, you will develop a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate your professional competencies in a range of skills and attributes, which are transferable and desirable in a number of industry sectors.

The module aims to provide students with the opportunity to build upon and apply the knowledge, skills and experience gained to the teaching of net wall games and individual activities, such as badminton, gymnastics and athletics. Throughout the module you will have the opportunity to further develop your coaching skills and practice but with specific emphasis on utilising these in order to teach the skills and techniques involved in individual activities and net wall games in a school environment. A major part of this module will be the opportunity to develop your practical skills and gain a critical understanding of how to develop these with students in an educational context.

This module aims to enable you to develop an understanding of key elements of the global sport industry. You will be introduced to the contemporary principles of management in international sport business and will learn about economic and social benefits that sport brings across the globe. Topics that will be covered in this module include international sport governance; globalisation of sport; international sport events, bidding for them and their impacts and legacies; managing international sport brands and rights; the impact of technology on global sport; international athlete management and role of intermediaries; sport as an instrument of “soft power”; international sport tourism; and the sustainability of international sport industry.

This module is focused on you gaining experience with the sport, exercise and rehabilitation industry using a variety of professional and career development opportunities to suit your own needs; including, but not limited to work-based experience, shadowing professionals, attending workshops/courses/conferences, and careers events. Therefore, much of the learning on this module takes place away from the classroom and out in the sport, exercise and the rehabilitation industry. This module is designed to provide you with the opportunity to undertake an individually tailored programme of professional and career development activities, which you design, relevant to your own sport/exercise/rehabilitation-related career interests and needs. In addition, you will develop your knowledge and understanding of the value of professional and career development activities in enhancing employability within the sport, exercise and rehabilitation industry. It is an opportunity to take the learning you have gained in other modules and put it in to practice within the real-world settings.

This module provides you with an understanding of the role of physical activity and exercise in relation to health, the theories of behaviour change and how the theories are applied in practice. In the first half of the module, you will gain an understanding of the physiology of physical activity and exercise, and how this can prevent and manage a number of health conditions in a range of populations. The latter half of the module focuses on providing you with an insight of behaviour change including factors that influence behaviour change and an understanding of how such models can be applied in practice. The module will review current health promotion strategies and initiatives to enable you to develop your skills and competencies in evaluating empirical evidence and in designing health-based intervention strategies.

This module will enable you to develop a critical understanding of real-world issues concerning equity, inclusion, diversity and sustainability

across a broad range of sport and contexts. Topics will include (but are not limited to) gender inequality, institutional racism, disability,

sexuality and athlete activism. This module will provide an opportunity to discuss, debate and challenge your own and others’ biases and

assumptions relating to sport and workplace contexts. You will gain an understanding of the impact of these complex issues on professional

practice and individual wellbeing in sport organisations and will work on developing creative solutions that can be applied in practice, to

address these problems.

In this module your focus will be sport facility and operational management. These areas are intrinsically linked and are usefully explored together. The module will focus on issues and skills relating to strategic planning, marketing, programming, management of operations, finance, technology, security and information. The module will provide you with the opportunity to critically consider the operation of sport facilities, by integrating concepts and theories from sport specific, leisure management and business literature.

The third sector is an umbrella term for a wider variety of organisations. It includes social enterprises, charities and the voluntary and community sector which is one of the largest providers of sport in the UK (and many parts of the globe). This module provides comprehensive understanding of third sector sport management through three integrated blocks.

Volunteering and Workforce Management: You will explore who volunteers in sport and why, examining motivations, barriers, and demographic patterns through sociological and psychological lenses. The module covers practical volunteer management including recruitment strategies for underrepresented groups, inclusive induction and training approaches, recognition and retention methods, and supporting volunteer wellbeing and preventing burnout. You will understand workforce strategies and volunteering policies, examining how national frameworks translate to local practice. Critical attention is given to managing hybrid workforces of volunteers and professionals, understanding role boundaries, expectations, and potential tensions. Throughout, issues of emotional labour, class dynamics, and cultural differences in voluntary action are explored.

Policy, Governance and Operations: This block examines the political and policy environment, including impacts of austerity on voluntary sport, Civil Society strategies and their implementation, resource dependency and power dynamics, and relationships with state and commercial sectors. You will understand different organisational forms including charitable incorporated organisations, community interest companies, sport club foundations, and social enterprises. Financial management focuses on practical approaches to income diversification, grant dependency and alternatives, managing restricted funds, and financial sustainability during economic uncertainty. Partnership working is explored through real examples, understanding forced collaboration, competitive tensions, building effective networks, and managing power imbalances.

Inclusion, Innovation and Future Challenges: The final block addresses equality, diversity and inclusion in depth, examining intersectional barriers including race, class, disability, gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, age, and socio-economic factors. You will explore accessibility in its broadest sense, as physical, cultural, financial, and social, developing co-production approaches with excluded communities and anti-oppressive practices in voluntary sport. You will explore community asset transfer as opportunity and challenge, digital transformation and its inclusion implications, climate change and environmental sustainability, and international models of voluntary sport provision. Impact measurement is addressed practically, understanding funder requirements whilst maintaining community-centred definitions of success.