EQF/MQF Level 6 B.Sc. in Sport Management (Top-Up)

Course Description

This course will equip participants with the specialist knowledge and skills needed to produce sport managers as well as the employability skills needed to become a sport manager. It has been designed to meet the requirements of the sport industry and is underpinned by the research and experience of our tutors/lecturers. 

Modules 1 to 10 count for 10 ECTS each , Module 11, the Dissertation Module is double-weighted and count for 20 ECTS. Each 10 ECTS taken equates to a total study time of 250 hours. Total study time includes scheduled online teaching, synchronous and asynchronous, / /teaching, independent study, and assessment activity. 

Modules 1 to 6, during the first year, will develop the underpinning knowledge and skills in areas such as Sport Management and Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Sport Management, Reflective Practice in Sport Management, Sport Finance and Economics, Sport Facility and Operational Management, Research Methods in Sport.

In year 2, Modules 7 to 10, participants will develop skills and knowledge in Politics, Governance and Policy in Sport,, Cultural Intelligence in Sport, Critical Perspectives in Sport and Society, Safeguarding for Managers in Sport, culminating in a final major project. Module 11 Independent Research Project in Sport Management and Leadership. This will develop the participants’ ability to work independently on a project/area of study and research of their choice related to sport management.

The accreditation category of the Programme is Higher Education.

Learning Outcomes

  • Critically discuss management and leadership theories and their implications for sport management practice and the dynamic forces of entrepreneurship and innovation.
  • Critically analyze the role of the reflective practitioner and its importance for sport leaders and managers.
  • Appraise the importance of ways in which finance and economics impact contemporary sport and sport organizations.
  • Identify and assess critically the key factors in managing and operating a sport facility.
  • Analyze critically the principles involved in the design of qualitative and quantitative research, and evaluate critically data collected.
  • Knowledgeably evaluate the importance of good governance and policy in the world of sport.
  • Analyze potential challenges to effective intercultural communication and identify ways to minimize the barriers to cross-cultural communication.
  • Develop a critical understanding of the main debates within social scientific analysis of sport in contemporary society.
  • Evaluate critically key legal, ethical and professional issues which underpin safeguarding practice.
  • Identify a specialist subject within the field of sport and implement effective research to produce a unique and original research project.
  • Analyze contemporary issues that allow participants to apply management and leadership theories in real situations and entrepreneurship and innovation within the context of sport.
  • Devise innovative strategies by integrating economic concepts to address the various economic problems faced by the Sport industry.
  • Apply critically management and leadership approaches suitable to specific sports facilities and events to plan, budget, and market sporting events effectively.
  • Apply an understanding of the advantages and limitations associated with different qualitative and quantitative research methods. 
  • Evaluate critically the global governance structures and policies and their strategic impact of good governance and policies in sport organizations. 
  • Evaluate cultural differences and diversity and evaluation of critical perspectives in the sport industry.
  • Analyze and apply critically sound leadership skills in safeguarding. 
  • Plan for and effectively utilize subject-specific data-collection methods and research methodologies to an independent research project.

Target Candidates

The BSc Sport Management (top-up) is aimed to current or prospective club and team administrators: athletes or coaches, referees, volunteers who work with local and/or international sports organizations. The degree is intended to develop participants to possess the necessary professional set of skills, develop in their respective career and contribute effectively to the overall betterment of the organization they will be employed with.

Course Code Duration Credit Value Next Intake FT/PT
LW/S/011 24 months 120 ECTS November 2026 FT
Contact Hours Placement Hours Self Study Hours Assessment Hours Total Learning Hours
550 0 2330 120 3000

Mode of Training

The skills and knowledge participants acquire throughout the Sport Management degree will equip them with key business and management skills that can be applied in all kinds of organizations.

Participants of this degree (top-up) will have an excellent basis for specially deepening and broadening their knowledge in more specialised areas.

Participants can seek employment in a variety of commercial and non-commercial organizations in the sport sector, in roles as diverse as sports development, volunteer management, operations and strategy. Even so the degree is intended to develop individuals to possess the necessary professional skills, develop in their respective career and contribute effectively to the overall betterment of their own respective organisation. It will further help participants to also develop essential transferrable skills, such as communication, critical thinking, and teamwork.

100% Online.

Modules are delivered in the evening, twice a week.

Language of instruction is English.

Assessment

The programme employs an effective assessment strategy that informs and supports the teaching and learning process and is an integral part of this process and will promote attainment and achievement. This strategy incorporates both ‘formative’ and ‘summative’ assessments. This is important in evaluating learning and providing feedback throughout the programme.

Refer to Policy LWP21 – Assessment

Awarding Body

Learning Works

Lecturers

Lecturers will be shortly announced.

Course Structure

Module 1 (LW/S/012): Award in Sport Management and Leadership (10 ECTS)

This module will critically analyse key management and leadership theories and principles relevant to the global sport industry. It will evaluate the core concepts, functions and environments of sport management and leadership and develops participants’ understanding of this discipline through the application of management theory to practice via contemporary case studies. Participants will be taught all about the key skills, roles, competences needed in today’s sport industry, such insights will then give participants that ‘cutting edge’ when applying for that dream sport job. The content of the module will be research-informed and applied and the assessment will reflect this focusing on key functions within sport management.

This module will also afford participants the chance to develop a thorough grounding in management and leadership approaches across a variety of important sporting contexts. Participants will be able to critically consider these approaches and appraise their importance to both sporting governance and development.

  • Appraise critically a variety of theories, policies and practices associated with the management of sport in differing contexts

  • Critically identify synergy and conflict between theories and between theory and practice

  • Critically distinguish the effects of differing management and leadership approaches in a range of sporting contexts

  • Apply strategic problem solving in responding to complex and multi-layered internal and external factors which influence operational and strategic sports management

  • Demonstrate the ability to make decisions on appropriateness of a range of strategies and for informing change at operational and strategic level in the sports industry

  • Analyze, and critically evaluate complex and multi-layered internal and external factors which inform policy, practice, and ongoing change in different sports management contexts

  • Display critically insights to the challenges associated with the roles of sport management professionals to satisfy diverse stakeholder needs across the sports sectors

  • Demonstrate critical awareness of the scale, scope, structure, and dynamic nature of the sports industry and implications from an operational and strategic management perspective

  • Critically evaluate the application of management and leadership theory in different sports contexts

  • Undertake research on a selected sports organisation and produce a case study report, contextualising theory to practice, critically analysing management challenges and providing recommendations to respond

  • Demonstrate competency in academic and professional communication with others (orally and in writing), and demonstrate autonomy and insight in critical reflection in the context of sport management

  • Appraise a variety of theories, policies and practices associated with the management of sport in differing contexts, identifying synergy and conflict between theories and between theory and practice

  • Critically distinguish the effects of differing management and leadership approaches in a range of sporting contexts

  • Strategic thinking and problem solving in responding to complex and multi-layered internal and external factors which influence operational and strategic sports management

  • Demonstrate the ability to make decisions on appropriateness of a range of strategies and for informing change at operational and strategic level in the sports industry

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 2 (LW/S/013): Award in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Sport Management (10 ECTS)

This module will analyse the dynamic forces of entrepreneurship and innovation in the sport industry. Participants will evaluate the impact these two forces have in the development of sport as a globalized business endeavour.  Participants will critically evaluate why the sport industry is such a fertile industry for entrepreneurial activity and innovation and how they can leverage this successfully. The aim is for participants to develop intellectual skills and a deep understanding of theories and concepts by adopting an entrepreneurial approach to the sports industry. It will provide a critical analysis for individuals seeking to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation in the sports industry, whether through starting their own ventures, working within established organizations, or driving change as entrepreneurs.

  • Carry out independent decisions based on analysis, intuition and risk management in the fast-paced industry of sports

  • Create opportunities, solve problems, drive innovation

  • Manage setting goals, prioritizing tasks

  • Manage time effectively

  • Collaborate effectively with stakeholders adhering to high standards of transparency in business operations

  • Be responsible for pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors autonomously as a solo entrepreneur or as a leader within the sport industry

  • Develop a long-term vision guiding entrepreneurial decisions and innovations

  • Identify entrepreneurial theories and frameworks needed to foster entrepreneurial activity for individuals based on the experiences of successful sports entrepreneurs

  • Analyse critically the challenges faced by entrepreneurs

  • Critically evaluate the ways in which entrepreneurial-minded individuals can thrive in sports organizations despite resisting innovation and favouring the status quo

  • Identify new opportunities and translate them into viable business opportunities

  • Appraise critically innovative technologies and their potential application in sports

  • Apply entrepreneurial theories to analyse the position of a sport organization and determine options available in the context of the sport industry

  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of what a business model is and how this can be applied to a sport industry

  • Analyse critically market trends, challenges, innovation, and sustainability issues in the sport industry

  • Appraise critically sustainability issues within the business development context

  • Critically evaluate the role of entrepreneurship in the context of innovation and business development in the sport industry

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 3 (LW/S/014): Award in Reflective Practice in Sport Management (10 ECTS)

This module will analyse critically the importance of reflective practice and how it has become to be recognised as a core element of professional expertise. Reflective practice can refer to the ability to analyse one’s own practice, the incorporation of problem solving into learning by doing, or application of critical theory to the examination of professional practice. It will allow participants to explore critically how each of these forms of reflective practice raises several significant issues for sport management practitioners, particularly in terms of the way they view their practice arguing that all forms of reflection are vital to skilful sport management practice. This module affords the chance to participants to analyse the fact that critical reflection provides unique opportunities to understand the practitioner’s world, and, in so doing, to provide opportunities for emancipatory practice.

  • Apply reflective analysis of theoretical traditions of reflection

  • Evaluate critically the notions of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action

  • Analyse critically principles that ought to underpin reflective practice in sport management

  • Critically evaluate methodological issues requiring further research and examination

  • Identify and evaluate critically the meaning of reflective practice, reflective learning theory and related literature

  • Evaluate critically the importance of reflective practice in the context of leadership practice and the role of the sport leader

  • Appraise the importance of reflective practice by engaging with learning activities

  • Analyze critically different levels and processes of reflection

  • Apply reflective writing to demonstrate your learning development

  • Evaluate critically and in-depth, your experience of reflective practice in action

  • Critically analyze the factors that limit engagement in reflective practice

  • Identify ways in which such issues could be overcome to improve future reflective practice

  • Apply reflective analysis to confront and solve complex and challenging leadership problems

  • Analyse to reflect on the complexity and challenges of leadership practice using Case studies

  • Evaluate critically leadership and management challenges within specific organisational contexts such as Sport

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 4 (LW/S/015): Award in Sport Finance and Economics (10 ECTS)

Finance, financial management and economics are crucial to understanding contemporary sport and financial matters. Principles develop within the sports industry together with an understanding of the way economic concepts permeates all aspects of the industry. The module will provide participants an understanding of the national and international finance and economic framework that influences markets and determines the economic environment within which sporting industries operate. It will also introduce participants to concepts on which the behaviour of all economic agents including individuals, firms, organisations, and governments are based.

  • Analyse critically the key financial and economic concepts and theories and how they apply within the sports industry

  • Critically evaluate the economics of labour markets and income determination

  • Appraise critically how markets work, the market environment, and the behaviour of sport organizations

  • Critically analyse the role of the government and comprehend the macroeconomic environment

  • Identify the effects of globalisation and the international economic environment

  • Analyze critically the importance of finance and economics in contemporary sports

  • Evaluate the division between business and sport

  • Appraise critically finance and economic concepts that underpin the structure of professional sport

  • Analyze critically the financial operations of sport organizations

  • Appraise why good financial management is important to the viability of sport organizations

  • Demonstrate financial and economic analysis tools, about sport organizations, sport events, and the industry both nationally and internationally

  • Reflect critically on the literature in the discipline interpreting in a different, proper, and better light certain management, financial, and economic decisions, including disciplining ones, imposed by high level sport organizations both nationally and internationally

  • Analyze critically certain correct financial methodologies to key decisions, like a club purchasing a new player, a sport entity investing in a new facility

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 5 (LW/S/016): Award in Sport Facility and Operational Management (10 ECTS)

The aim of this module is for participants to focus on 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.

  • Analyze critically the amin characteristics of sports systems and applicable regulatory framework for sport nationally and internationally

  • Critically evaluate the main concepts of strategic planning for the efficient, effective, and economic management of sport facility

  • Appraise the tools to design a sport facility

  • Define analytically several feasibility studies

  • Evaluate critically the diverse types of services and activities that could be part of the sport facility

  • Analyze critical establishing a marketing mix policy to launching and positioning strategies

  • Evaluate various merchandising elements as promotional and communication elements of the sport facility and the sport organization

  • Evaluate the concepts regarding human capital management

  • Analyze critically the various aspects of managing the sport facility within the legal framework and the framework of a good organization

  • Analyze a suitable plan for the maintenance of the sport facility

  • Evaluate critically how to invest and source of financing the sport facility

  • Analyze effectively and efficiently the operating account of the sport facility

  • Analyze critically the concept of risk management and the significance of legal issues in sport facility management

  • Collaborate actively in a multidisciplinary team

  • Negotiate effectively divergent views until reaching consensus

  • Appraise the diversity of opinions to be able to formulate individual opinions whilst respect

  • Appraise critically the different management models for a sport facility

  • Evaluate reflectively the optimal management models

  • Communicate effectively to both sport specialized and non-specialized audience

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 6 (LW/S/017): Award in Research Methods in Sport (10 ECTS)

This module will develop participants’ knowledge and evaluation of the philosophical and methodological underpinnings of the research process. Participants will gain experience of formulating appropriate research questions, research designs, proposals, and analytic techniques for conducting research in sport and management. It will evaluate qualitative research traditions, designing a qualitative research study, collecting, and handling qualitative data.  It will further analyse the linkage between quantitative research design, quantitative data types and questionnaires and descriptive statistics.

  • Critically assess key elements of philosophical debates between and within the natural and social sciences and their implications for sport management theory practice

  • Appraise critically specific qualitative methods of data collection and evaluate the use of such methods in different contexts

  • Evaluate the specific strengths and weaknesses associated with different qualitative and quantitative research methods

  • Critically interpret the results of quantitative data analyses

  • Evaluate critically the challenges and problems involved in the administration and design of research studies

  • Appraise the importance of the review of literature relevant to research topic

  • Critically analyze the principle involved in the design of qualitative and quantitative research

  • Critically compare the difference between qualitative and quantitative research methods

  • Evaluate critically the process involved in designing qualitative and quantitative research within sport and sport related research

  • Analyze the advantages and limitations associated with the different qualitative and quantitative research methods

  • Appraise which statistical tests should be applied to different data types and in different contexts

  • Evaluate critically the connection between the research question, method of data analyses and theoretical development

  • Demonstrate competence in using SPSS and or nVivo

  • Identify critically a topical research aim and set of objectives to be achieved in a research project

  • Select appropriate research methods to address an appropriate aim in relation to specific sport management issues or problems

  • Analyze and review critically literature relevant to research topics

  • Plan and successfully undertake the submission of a Research Proposal which will eventually lead to the submission of an individual research project in sport management and leadership by the end of the course

  • Formulate and conduct aspects of qualitative research strategies, planning and research instruments

  • Develop a quantitative questionnaire

  • Analyze sport related data using Statistical Package for Social Sciences

  • Apply a range of different qualities data analyses techniques

  • Present and analyze critically the results of both qualitative and quantitative data analyses

  • Develop digital technology use and research-oriented skills, especially Statistical Package for Social Sciences

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 7 (LW/S/018): Award in Politics, Governance and Policy in Sport (10 ECTS)

The aim of this module is for participants to develop a critical understanding of the policy making process, policy analyses, concepts, and models in sport. It will analyse sports governance and governance principles, structures, and standards of sport organizations both at national level and internationally.

Participants will also have the opportunity to pursue the following Indicative topics within this module which will include: the political use of sports mega-events; the political economy of sport; sports governance; sport development in international contexts; and moral dilemmas in global sport policy (such as match-fixing, gambling and doping).

  • Apply critically theories, concepts, and techniques of policy analysis to issues in sport, such as match-fixing, gambling and doping

  • Critically identify and discuss the standards of good governance that apply to sports federations and clubs

  • Appraise the need of good governance standards in the corporate management of sports

  • Evaluate critically the importance of governance within the context of three of the world’s leading international sport governing bodies: UEFA, FIFA, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

  • Assess critically emerging and contemporary issues in the field of sport, politics, and diplomacy

  • Appraise critically new developments in sports, politics, and diplomacy such as the impact of technological innovation and evolving values

  • Analyze critically the key concepts used in constructing, implementing, evaluating, and analyzing policy

  • Critically appraise key current issues in policy analysis

  • Evaluate critically selected theories, concepts, and techniques of policy analysis

  • Critically analyze the concept of good governance, its various interpretations, and the principles of good governance

  • Evaluate the role of public authorities and non-governmental sports organizations in the governance of sports

  • Evaluate critically relevant political concepts, such as ‘soft power’, ‘power politics’, ‘political voice and mediation’

  • Critically evaluate the current national and international context of sports management, through research informed understanding of leadership, political and social contexts

  • Identify, assess, and provide justification for appropriate sport management research topic areas, based on a global understanding of current sport management issues

  • Evaluate and critically appraise global governance structures and the impact of good governance in sport organizations

  • Critically evaluate current research contexts and constructs in sport management, understanding the wider impact of sport management

  • Critically measure and evaluate practices of good governance in sport organizations

  • Critically evaluate proposals that translate good governance principles and standards into concrete managerial and strategic decisions in sports organizations

  • Critically reflect on a range of information from a range of sources

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 8 (LW/S/019): Award in Cultural Intelligence in Sport (10 ECTS)

In this module participants will critically understand the diverse world, of sport and being mindful of other people and their cultures, this being key to successful interactions. In this module, participants will discover the impact of culture on one’s personal identity and that there are cultural universals that make up every culture. Participants will have the opportunity to analyse the common differences between cultures and how communication can be enhanced across the different cultures. It will help participants to engage and communicate better with others by understanding some basic differences in culture.

  • Describe the meaning of each of the cultural value dimensions

  • Analyze potential challenges to effective intercultural communication

  • Identify ways to minimize the barriers to cross-cultural communication

  • Analyze how cultural differences can impact on group effectiveness, negotiations, and personal presentation and impression

  • Evaluate cultural differences and diversity in teams and their own work and how to adjust it to apply cultural intelligence

  • Appraise how cultural factors can influence management decision-making

  • Analyse the implications of diversity based on your own experiences

  • Analyze his/her comfort zone and look at the world according to others and their values

  • Develop a roadmap for developing further culture intelligence

  • Appraise the limits of using a foreign language and starting from different cultural frameworks and values

  • Apply active listening skills and ask for clarifications to prevent assumption and misunderstandings

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 9 (LW/S/020): Award in Critical Perspectives in Sport and Society (10 ECTS)

This module will acquaint participants with the principles and applications of social issues within the sport industry. This module is grounded in sociological research and requires critical thinking to investigate the links between many of the major issues facing sport organizations today. Specifically, participants will be able to assess the intersection of race and sports, gender and sports, class and sports, media, and sports, as well as the issues plaguing youth, college, and professional sports in the globally.

It draws on critical sociological and historical perspectives to understand the role of sport in wider society and aims to set the study of sport management in its social context by examining the implications of the various issues for the management of sports organisations.

  • Evaluate theory, arguments, and evidence in relation to identified issues

  • Appraise critically the implications of complex problems for sports managers

  • Critically analyze and articulate how sports impact society as well as how society impacts sports

  • Identify the major sociological issues associated with gender, social class, race, in sports

  • Critically evaluate the relationship between society and sports

  • Describe how competition and the professional commercial model of sport have an impact on society

  • Identify critically and provide examples of contemporary issues in sport and society

  • Demonstrate knowledge of historical, cultural, and comparative sensitivities within contemporary issues in sport and society

  • Critically examine sport culture through application of social theory and empirical research

  • Evaluate ideas for progressive development of sport and exercise based on critical analysis of contemporary social issues

  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of the range and complexity of issues relevant to sport management

  • Identify and explain the importance of key concepts in conceptualising complex issues in sport

  • Evaluate critically the significance of social structure, power and inequality when analysing sport in society

  • Critically analyse the rapid commercialisation and regulation of sport

  • Appraise critically the institution of sport as a microcosm of the greater society

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 10 (LW/S/021): Award in Safeguarding for Managers in Sport (10 ECTS)

This module will provide participants with the understanding and awareness necessary for working and safeguarding when managing a sport organization.  It will offer a series of   principles and the capacity to apply preventative measures and effective safeguarding response strategies. Participants will critically evaluate how to identify and report instances of poor practice and abuse. Participants will also appraise critically the legal framework, ethical and professional practice issues surrounding safeguarding.

  • Manage sporting activities in line with the best safeguarding practices

  • Operate safeguarding in its regulatory framework

  • Comply with indicators and warning signs and the strategies of the aggressors

  • Monitor joint learning and appraisal of how agencies can work together to meet the needs of multi complex vulnerable people across different cultures and diversities

  • Critically appraise and examine theories, styles, principles and processes of management and leadership that impact upon safeguarding

  • Develop a deeper understanding of safeguarding in sport and how it applies to different areas across an organisation

  • Evaluate critically appropriate safeguarding responses and the skills and systems required to support it

  • Appraise critically own organizational safeguarding needs and convert these into a draft plan with tangible actions

  • Critically evaluate the complex multi-faceted aspects of vulnerability to risk assess and apply best practice in safeguarding vulnerable people

  • Apply advanced knowledge and critical analysis of relevant research, reports, serious case reviews and literature that impacts on safeguarding practice

  • Critically apply sound managerial and leadership skills in safeguarding

  • Develop and apply key learning from research, literature reports, enquiries and serious case reviews and apply critical knowledge to practice areas

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 190
  • Assessment Hours: 10
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 250

Module 11 (LW/S/022): Award in Research Project in Sport Management and Leadership (20 ECTS)

The final module of this bachelor’s degree is an independent research project in sport management and leadership. Participants are tested on the skills, knowledge and competences acquired through the modules preceding the final one. The research project will allow participants to be able to critically formulate a research question based on their own preferred topic, identify, and critically assess existing literature and gather further data and information. A main factor of the research project is cultivating participants’ independence of thought and the ability to interpret material. Participants are expected to use the correct research methodologies and practices and present an effective research study.

  • Plan and conduct an original and effective research project

  • Manage own time management and critical thinking skills

  • Carry out research independently whilst also seeking assistance from one’s supervisor

  • Incorporate all the learning outcomes gained throughout the programme and all the modules and implement them in the critical analysis and assessment of a research question

  • Identify a research study area and propose research question

  • Conduct a critical review literature review that can synthesize key elements of literature

  • Collate and present data and information to support research arguments according to a particular methodology used

  • Discuss critically the results obtained in the contexts of literature

  • Use various data gathering techniques which are most suitable for the research study

  • Exhibit capability to gather, analyze and present data to be turned into information and knowledge to assist in the solving of a problem

  • Demonstrate capability to draw conclusions based on facts and collected data from the literature review and through the research data collection methods themselves

  • Show understanding of various data collection and analysis techniques

  • Critically appraise and analyze existing literature related to the topic of choice

  • Identify the best techniques for data collection and analysis for the existing literature to successfully conduct the research study

  • Choose the most effective data collection techniques and methods

  • Critically evaluate obtained information and translate them into results to be presented in the research study

  • Present one’s work in a clear and understandable manner using the correct academic format

  • Use technology to source, compile and analyze data in research projects

  • Use technology to formulate and present a clearly articulated report based on the research project

  • Total Contact Hours: 50
  • Supervised Placement & Practice Hours: 0
  • Self-Study Hours: 430
  • Assessment Hours: 20
  • Total Learning Hours of this Module: 500

Entry Requirements

  1. MQF Level 5 (60 ECTS) Diploma in Sport Management OR Equivalent qualification at MQF Level 5 (60 ECTS) in a Sport related area,

    AND

  2. Digital literate

    AND

  3. Have a good command of oral and written communication in English with a level of proficiency in English equivalent to at least IELTS Level 6.

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