About Sport Coaching in University of West of Scotland

OVERVIEW

Our MSc in Sport Coaching aims to advance your coaching skills through the application of science to sport in your coaching context. It draws on a range of disciplines including sport psychology, sport conditioning, and performance analysis. Whether you coach children, elite youth performers or talented masters athletes, the course is designed to provide support in the application of scientific principles to challenge and enhance your coaching practice.

You will be supported by experts with extensive experience in sports practice and research. This support will be tailored to your coaching needs and the environment you coach within. For example, coaches with an interest in developing psychological skills with their athletes may focus on the development of a sport psychology intervention or educational workshop to meet their athlete’s needs. You will have the opportunity to specialise (e.g. strength and conditioning, performance analysis, sport psychology) within the two Supervised Experience modules and work with a highly experienced, research-active supervisor to develop bespoke interventions for your coaching context.

PROFESSIONAL ALIGNMENT

The MSc Sport Coaching is designed to provide opportunities to advance practical and reflective skills that articulate to the United Kingdom Coaching Certificate (UKCC) Level 4.

Work-based learning is central to this MSc. All activities and assessments draw upon students’ experiences from employment or work-based learning in the coaching sector. There are opportunities to undertake continuous professional development (CPD) and work-based learning to enhance both coaching skills and employability. For example, opportunities will be available through our partnerships with Glasgow Rocks (professional basketball team) and St Mirren Football Club. You will be supported in developing portfolios towards the UKCC Level 4 generic competencies. Such experiences and skill development are central to this MSc and offer real-world application of science to sport, critical analysis and reflective practice.

This course prepares for the following:

• British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) pathway for Supervised Experience (all MSc modules are mapped to BASES competencies)
• United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) professional accreditation
• United Kingdom Coaching Certification (UKCC) Level 3 or above

CAREER PROSPECTS

UWS sport graduates have gone on to employment with:

• Professional sports clubs
• National sporting associations, governing bodies and other related sporting agencies
• Local authorities
• Schools, further education and higher education institutions
• Self-employment/set-up own business
• Community projects/voluntary organisations

Graduates are equipped to collaborate with performers as a coach, strength and conditioner or in sport science support. The MSc can prepare elite performers to study their own performance and to develop the necessary skills to help their future performance or prepare them for work opportunities after retirement from sport.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Students must have successfully completed at least one year of undergraduate study with recognized institution.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS      :    6.0 with no skill below 5.5
• TOEFL    :    78
• PTE         :    An overall score of 54 with no element below 51

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University of the West of Scotland The Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

The annual tuition fee for a variety of courses are given below.