BA (Hons) Sports Business and Sports Law (UCFB) Bachelor's degree at University Campus of Football Business Limited

Provides in-depth knowledge of the fundamental legal principles, institutions and procedures upon which the English Legal System is founded, allowing you to fully understand how the law operates in England and Wales. Introduces legal skills including legal research, legal writing, legal referencing and legal etiquette, as well as familiarisation with alternative legal systems.

Explores how the core parts of the business (marketing, finance, the media, sponsorship, event management, leadership and HR) operate. You will analyse the development of sport and governance of both elite and grassroots organisations.

Introduces you to personal and professional factors relevant to employment in the sport industry, and to enhance your awareness of the industrial landscape. Introduces a wide range of perspectives, philosophies, and principles of critical and ethical thinking which will equip you with the competencies and confidence to achieve your academic and employability goals.

Provides the intellectual foundations to the study of sports law by examining the historical and contemporary debates concerning the relationship between sport and law. Provides key definitions, examines the law of negligence and its application to sport, and analyses legal issues particular to the sports industry, including anti-doping and the interaction between human rights and sports.

Develops awareness of and an understanding of the source and purpose of accounting information to organisational stakeholders. Introduces both Financial and Management accounting and the information they convey to users. Uses case studies to teach how to draft and analyse financial statements and introduces accounting principles and frameworks to aid management decision making, planning and controlling organisational activities.

Explores how different factors have influenced the development of the football business and the framework within which all football-related institutions coexist and the unique role that clubs play in society which distinguishes football business from other environments.

Critically examines how the sport's governing bodies and the law of the land regulate misconduct and criminal activity by sports participants on the field of play, and combat threats to the integrity of sport involving forms of corruption.

Aims to understand and analyse the political and economic contexts in which sport operates, and to understand the structure of the sports industry. You'll develop a higher-level understanding of business and management principles and their application to the sport industry.

Focuses on developing practical skills relevant to a workplace environment. Asks you to apply your knowledge and personal skillset to problem-based learning scenarios, and live projects. You will learn project management skills, develop your personal pragmatism, and enhance your industry-based interests and understanding.

Supports your ability to become an evidence-based practitioner by providing an introduction to the processes involved in conducting research within your discipline. Equips you with the skills and knowledge to critically analyse the work of others and prepares you for conducting your own independent project. Includes identifying contemporary industry-relevant issues, developing project aims and objectives, understanding reflexivity, methodologies and different methods of data collection, analysis

Critically examines the regulatory framework affecting the governance choices made by a range of sports governing bodies. Explores how the decisions of governing bodies can lead to legal challenge and the role and regulatory function of governing bodies by examining a range of legal sports cases.

Provides practical focused training to develop a business idea within a group and produce a pitch deck to be presented to an investment panel, then produce a business plan. Provides skills and knowledge from the world of business underpinned by relevant theories and models. Aims to give you a realistic and viable alternative career opportunity establishing and running your own business.

Explores the web of contractual relationships that operate within sport from an employment perspective. Navigates through the complex web of contractual relations and explores how a unique system of public and private regulation applies to sport. Examines the employee-employer relationship, how contracts are negotiated, what terms appear in contracts, how parties to a contract can be disciplined and how contracts are ended.

Develops your knowledge and appreciation of strategic management in different organisational and environmental settings. You will learn how strategic thinking and planning is applied within football (grassroots/professional) and sporting ecosystems. Provides theoretical concepts and relevant tools for undertaking strategic analyses, considering strategic choices and making strategic recommendations.

Provides you with the opportunity to synthesise the knowledge and skills you will have developed during the course of your studies and independently design, develop and execute an individual professional project. The project aims to investigate an original contemporary industry-relevant issue and will be a platform through which you will demonstrate the knowledge, skills, understanding and expertise you have developed in your discipline. The project will be research- and inquiry-based and will b