BSc (Hons) Football Coaching and Performance Bachelor's degree at the University of Chichester

This module will give you an understanding of the skilled performance of key sports and their social and performance-based context. You will also learn key safety principles and sport-specific frameworks for assessing performance.

This module will give you a comprehensive understanding of the theories and current approaches adopted in coaching football. You will examine different coaching theories and approaches in order to appropriately apply theory to practice in your coaching. You will also develop an understanding of how to help players develop critical decision-making skills and individual technical competence in relation to FA.

This module will provide you with the research skills necessary to support your learning within sport and exercise. It will introduce you to the philosophies that underpin different types of research, and you will learn basic techniques of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.

This module will help you understand how psychological principles can improve physical activity participation, well-being, and performance. You will study a range of cognitive and behavioural psychological factors in the context of sport and exercise. You will also investigate a range of key issues related to physical activity, exercise, sport performance, and well-being and learn strategies to build psychological attributes and improve performance in sport and exercise.

In this module, you will develop skills in health screening, needs analysis, and goal setting for diverse clients and athletes by integrating principles from gym instruction, personal training, and sports performance coaching. Key topics include anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, and nutrition, alongside behaviour change techniques, injury prevention, and professional ethics. Additionally, the module explores business and marketing strategies for personal trainers. You will gain practical experi

The Professional Skills module is designed to support your transition to university study and help you develop key academic, personal and professional skills in your area of study. Throughout the module, you will enhance your communication skills, digital literacy and academic skills to ensure you have the tools to succeed at university and beyond. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills relevant to your future career, including interpersonal skills, problem-solving and self-reflection. The

This module allows you understand how to comprehensively develop and examine association football in the realm of youth provision. You will explore the varying methods used when coaching the young player with a comparison made between academy football and grassroots football. In addition, you will consider the youth development phase of football as you explore the differences between performance and participation coaching through the provision of a football event.

This module acts as an introduction to the dynamic nature of coaching within its current landscape. It will provide you with the essential practice-led learning element of your programme and enable you to demonstrate your competence and skill as a football practitioner.

This module aims to give you an overview of a number of issues related to coaching children in sport and/or providing sports opportunities for them. You will examine the development of the young performer from a multidisciplinary perspective and aims to provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge through appropriate assignments.

This module aims to provide you with the skills and knowledge to design interventions for improving both health and skills-related physical fitness. You will develop the ability to complete a health screening and needs analysis on clients and athletes, establish goals, select appropriate methods of individual physical performance assessments and design interventions to improve physical performance.

This module aims to further your understanding as to the 'why' surrounding physical activity through Physical Education. You will develop your knowledge and personal philosophy as to what you believe you want to deliver, how and why, in accordance with school and Governmental policies.

This module aims to introduce you to the key concepts, skills and techniques associated to performance analysis, and outline its place in the scientific support of individuals and teams. The analysis undertaken could relate to technical, tactical and/or physical aspects of performance, as the use of sports performance analysis is paramount considering the limitations of human memory, such as the volume of event recall and subjectivity.

This module introduces you to the essential tools and methodologies for managing an effective project, including the 'Prince2' and 'Agile' methodologies. You will explore techniques for change management and version control and have the opportunity to explore project planning and use Project Management software.

Assessment: 3,500-word portfolio

You will further develop your skills in research methods and data analysis, with a broad focus on analysis procedures including the qualitative method of interviewing and quantitative methods of analysis of variance, correlation and linear regression. These methods are commonly used procedures in the sport, exercise and health sciences, and understanding of these will also provide a solid foundation for understanding more advanced research methods that you may learn in your future work including

In this module, you will study basic musculo-skeletal anatomy, including features particularly prone to injury in sport e.g. ligaments; incidence of sport injury. You will explore common injuries to the body and their methods of occurrence, as well as first aid procedures and injury assessment. You will also study the role of biomechanics in predisposing factors, psychology and prevention of injury, as you consider treatment methods, rehabilitation and real-world case studies.

This module focuses on the multi-faceted process of the coach-athlete and teacher-pupil relationship, drawing on contemporary psychological research which places this relationship at the centre of athlete and pupil development. This module will explore the sources, nature and synthesis of sports-specific and psychological theory, and its application in the development of sporting competence in athletes and pupils.

You will examine selected adaptations of association football in relation to how these adaptations have extended the dominant game. In particular, the module will focus on specific adaptations including but not exclusive to futsal, forms of disability football, walking football, beach soccer and the emergence of the female game. Across all these formats the aim will be to examine how they are different and unique to the traditional and dominant 11v11 game of association football.

This module develops your critical, analytical and performance-based analysis of trends and patterns in the development of playing strategies related to association football. You will gain an advanced understanding of the practices, philosophies and methods of working with players in performance football.

This module acts as an introduction to the theoretical and practical concepts related to the development and mentoring of coaches, as you critically examine the methods and processes through which coaches learn and develop. It will embed theories of learning and critically explore philosophies of education as they relate to the development of competent sports coaches.

The increasing access to and globalisation of sport brings with it a wider range of ethical dilemmas for all those involved, including the coach. This module aims to increase the awareness of how these issues impact on the work of the coach and examine how choices are made using both historic and contemporary examples.

A focus on planning and monitoring training of athletes and how a programme of physiological support can be used to enhance performance. You will engage in current literature identifying the physiological demands of the athletes chosen sport, key measures of physical fitness and how we can enhance them. An athlete's ability to focus on training to gain maximal physiological adaptations, and relax in competition, can represent the difference in making the podium or winning major tournaments.

The research project provides an opportunity to apply appropriate knowledge, concepts and techniques to an in-depth study of a particular question or problem relating to sport, exercise or healthcare. This module aims to foster a greater understanding of the processes to undertake a small-scale research project and marks the culmination of your learning experience over your undergraduate programme of study.

This module focuses on the requirements of effective coaching delivery within groups and teams. It will critically analyse and address the knowledge and skills necessary to work with groups of athletes across key coaching contexts. You will understand how to assess the needs of a group, and the individuals within, and address this in your planning and delivery.