BSc (Hons) Sport Physical Education and Development Bachelor's degree at East London

Gain essential skills to boost your career prospects, particularly for roles connected to health and wellbeing fields. You'll engage with digital platforms, industry-led workshops, and real-world tasks to build confidence in communication, research, and digital professionalism. Throughout, you'll map your career aspirations, develop a strong online presence, and learn to identify the skills employers seek. With support from academic staff and career coaches, you'll reflect on your personal stren

This module will focus on physical health and wellbeing in sport and exercise. The module will introduce you to the processes involved with injury and rehabilitation along with discussion on contemporary issues surrounding post-exercise recovery strategies. As with other level 3 modules, this will prepare you for future study at level 4.

Prepare for success in higher education by developing the academic, personal, and professional skills needed for your studies and beyond. You'll learn effective time management, research strategies, digital proficiency, and academic writing techniques, with a strong focus on reflective learning and goal setting. Through interactive workshops, group discussions, and guided independent study, you'll gain confidence in using university systems, working collaboratively, and responding to feedback. T

Practical maths skills are essential across health and education careers. You'll explore statistics, probability, and basic financial numeracy, learning how to apply them to real workplace scenarios. Workshops, tutorials, and digital practice sessions will build your ability to analyse data accurately and confidently. Special emphasis is placed on using tools like spreadsheets and calculators within healthcare and education settings. As you sharpen your mathematical reasoning, you'll prepare for

Essential communication skills underpin success at university and beyond. This module focuses on developing your oral, written, and interpersonal abilities, preparing you to adapt your communication style to different academic and professional contexts. You'll explore contemporary issues in media and communication, build your active listening skills, and learn how to structure persuasive arguments. Group work and interactive workshops provide a supportive environment to practise and refine your

Applied knowledge matters in the sports and exercise sciences. This module offers you the chance to lead and manage a practical year-long project, reflecting the realities of sport PE, sport science, or sport therapy pathways. You'll enhance your leadership, teamwork, research, and presentation skills through hands-on engagement, with continuous feedback supporting your development. By focusing on live projects and real sporting contexts, you'll build a strong base for your future studies and pr

You will be able to develop the academic, interpersonal and communication skills necessary for effective learning and employment in the sport, exercise and physical activity industries. In addition, you will be introduced to professional, ethical and reflective practice skills specific to their discipline. You will then be able to recognise the importance of research and academic skills for university and working life.

This module will introduce you to the body systems and the basis of human performance. The module will also examine the physiological levels of organisation in the human body and their function in facilitating physical activity.

This module will introduce you to the fundamental academic and principal components underpinning sports coaching. A further aim of the module is to consider broader issues (e.g., health and safety, risk management, equality, inclusion) affecting the coach while operating in his/her sporting environment. The module will provide you with the opportunity to develop theoretical understanding of coaching in both a classroom and practical setting. At the end of this module you will be able to deliver

In this module you will develop an understanding of how sport has changed and evolved over time to create sport as we experience it in the modern world. This will be achieved by introducing you to the key historical, social and cultural processes that have underpinned the development of modern sport and which affect its consumption today. As part of this you will study topics such as media and sport, commercialisation, the evolution of the Olympic Games, social differences and ethical issues, su

This module aims to introduce structures, principles and processes underpinning leadership & management within sports-related organisations. You will also develop an understanding of management theory and how to effectively lead organisations, organise people and formulate groups within sports related settings.

This module will introduce you to psychological aspects of sport. This will involve focusing on a range of psychological theoretical frameworks and their application to the sport domains.

The module will be issues based and will build on some theoretical perspectives for the inclusion and exclusion of youth through sport. You will be involved in sociological analysis of issues of equity and social exclusion/ inclusion - e.g. 'race', gender, ethnicity, disability, body pedagogies and contemporary youth sport settings. Theoretical analysis will be used to further develop depth and breadth of understanding of these issues and implications for teachers and coaches.

This module aims to allow you to explore and gain a fuller understanding of both the similarities and fundamental differences between teaching and coaching in relation to children and young people. You will be encouraged to recognise and develop your understanding of what constitutes 'good practice' in relation to both professions as well as an appreciation of how this can be achieved and evaluated.

The main focus of this module will be to engage you in the process of being able to deliver inclusive and engaging practical sports sessions targeting people with different types and levels of impairment. As part of the module you will be involved in the delivery of an event for school-aged children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Along the way to this practical delivery, you will investigate and analyse the wider issues and processes involved in the development of an effective

This module will support you to develop skills that enable you to conceptualise, plan, analyse and interpret experiments that answer real-world problems. The focus will be on research methods as applied to professional practice through the monitoring of change that occurs in outcomes specific to your chosen career path. The module will also continue to develop your level of critical thinking through the interpretation and synthesis of secondary data.

In this module you will gain an insight into the political and policy-making processes and models that underlie sport and P.E. provision, and the governing structures that maintain it. Throughout this module you will examine the organisational requirements at national and local level for sport and PE delivery and development in light of current government policy.

The aim of this module is to prepare you for work in a sector emerging from Sports Development. The role of a Community Sports Development Officer is to plan, organise and deliver inclusive activities for all of the community. This module will also equip you with the skills and knowledge required to support these local initiatives from a community sports organisation's perspective. You will also gain an understanding of the community role that professional sports organisations can have in suppor

This module provides students with the opportunity to complete a substantial research project in an area of their choosing. This module challenges students to critically analyse bodies of research and use this information to construct a suitable hypothesis or research question that can subsequently be explored. The module requires that students exercise initiative and personal responsibility through the management of their project. Students are required to focus their work on responding to a rea

The aim of this module is to encourage you to work independently and under supervision with an academic member of staff to produce a project that demonstrates your ability to research and/or explore an applied topic in sport and exercise science/therapy. You will communicate your findings to a range of audiences such as coaches, clinicians, physical educators and sports scientists. You will choose between our Applied Research Project in Sport 20-credit module plus our Entrepreneurship and Enterp