Sport and Active Lifestyles at Sheffield Hallam University

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Sport and Active Lifestyles at Sheffield Hallam
University
Faculty of Health and Wellbeing
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Today's Information Guide

• Being a Sports Student _at_ SHU
• The Sports Degree Portfolio
• Career Opportunities
• Questions Answers
• How can we work together

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Why do a degree?

• Build upon existing skills and competencies to
  produce autonomous, critically reflective
  lifelong learners
• Have the ability to apply knowledge and
  understanding in a variety of settings
• Employable students through an integrated
  learning environment personal, professional and
  transferable skills
• Opens up doors employability jobs without a
  degree?
• Learn more specifically about a 'chosen' area
• Social aspects - FUN! lifelong friends
• Beginning of an independent life

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Sport Portfolio

• 10 'Sport' degrees run by 3 teams with some
  interdisciplinary work
• Sport, Management and Culture
• BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management
• BSc (Hons) Sport Event Management
• BA (Hons) Sport, Culture and Society
• BA (Hons) Sport and Community Development
• Sport and Exercise Science
• BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science
• BSc (Hons) Sport Science and Performance Coaching
• BSc (Hons) Physical Activity Health and Exercise
  Science

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Sport Portfolio

• Physical Education, Sport Development Coaching
• BSc (Hons) Sport Development with Coaching
• BSc (Hons) Physical Education and Youth Sport
• BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching

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Sport Management and Culture

• Entry requirements 200 UCAS points
• BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management
• Thorough grasp of business processors, ability to
  make astute management decisions and develop
  entrepreneurial skills
• Business concepts finance, marketing,
  operations, resources
• Practical work experience
• BSc (Hons) Sport Event Management
• As above - with specific event management modules
  

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Sport Management and Culture

• Entry requirements 200 UCAS points
• BA (Hons) Sport, Culture and Society
• BA (Hons) Sport and Community Development
• Social and cultural aspects related to sport
• Community sport practice, social formations of
  sport, globalisation, the media, sport politics
• Work placement

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Physical Education, Sport Development and Coaching

• Entry requirements 260 UCAS points
• BSc (Hons) Sport Development with Coaching
• 75/25 - Broad, multidisciplinary study of sport
  development and coaching society and political
  links to 'real' world
• Business and enterprise employability skills
  work placement
• BSc (Hons) Physical Education and Youth Sport
• Multidisciplinary and practical study of PE and
  the wider context of youth sport
• National curriculum related
• Work placement
• Fully qualified PE teacher (PGCE) 1 further
  year

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Physical Education, Sport Development and Coaching

• Entry requirements 260 UCAS points
• BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching
• Multidisciplinary study of the art and science of
  coaching social and political issues related to
  coaching
• Development of coaching practice in a range of
  settings
• Work placement

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Student Profile - PEYS

• mature student aged 38, divorced with 2 children
• left school at 16 went straight into work with
  the steel industry
• 9 years of working
• taught taekwndo in spare time, got very good
  feedback from parents with regard to his
  coaching. Trigger to investigate going back to
  college as a route into PE teaching
• told 'you will never get into SHU to do a
  teaching course as you are too old'
• persevered and got into RCAT at Rotherham,
• Access course Maths GCSE at evening class
• voluntary work within a school
• top marks in the Access course and accepted onto
  the PEYS degree in 2005
• he has just been accepted onto the PGCE 2008-09
• his dream to be a PE teacher will finally be
  recognised

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Student Profile - SDC

• age 19
• straight from College to University
• GCSE and GNVQ in Sport and Leisure
• BTEC obtained a DDM
• applied to Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester Met.
  for teaching and to SHU for PEYS
• didint get on her 1st choice and decided to move
  away from teaching to sport development
• 2007 enrolled at SHU on SDC
• triggers to stay attend SHU were staying close to
  home, her friends and the fact that she had a
  good job

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Sport and Exercise Science

• Entry requirements 280 UCAS points
• BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (1)
• Main disciplines sport and exercise
  physiology, biomechanics, sport psychology and
  nutrition Applied and practical approach
• BSc (Hons) Sport Science and Performance Coaching
• As (1) but with slightly less 'Science' this is
  replaced with coaching modules
• Links science to coaching individual and team
  performances
• BSc (Hons) Physical Activity, Health and Exercise
  Science
• As (1) but slightly less 'Science' - explores the
  link between physical activity and health and
  addresses the issue of physical activity as part
  of a healthy lifestyle

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Points mean Prizes or Accessing a Degree Please
see the attached sheet for the allocation
of points in relation to qualifications
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How will I learn?

• The aim of the degrees is to develop autonomous
  learners. A variety of different learning
  environments are used
• Blackboard
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Practical sessions
• Laboratory sessions
• Case studies
• Guest speakers/lectures
• Online virtual electronic learning environments
• Placements
• Business simulations
• 24 hour challenge
• PESDC Conference

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What kind of assessments will there be?

• Examinations
• Class tests
• Online assessments
• Essays
• Business reports
• Placement reports
• Lab Reports
• Group work

• CD Roms Web sites
• 24 hour challenge
• Management simulations
• Portfolios
• Posters
• Oral Presentations
• Peer Assessment

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What sport facilities will I use at Sheffield
Hallam?
Ponds Forge International Leisure Centre
Don Valley International Stadium

• English Institute of Sport

Ice Sheffield
SHU Sports Hall
SHU - Astro turf
SHU Bawtry Road
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Being a Sports 'student' _at_ SHU

• Sport run by students for students
• Access to local, National International Sports
  facilities
• BUSA ranking 20/141 university institutions
• Over 40 different SHU sport teams/clubs to join

• Large student community
• Campus Collegiate Crescent Eccesall Road
• Cheap living costs
• Hallam volunteering
• Ready, Steady, Coach!
• Elite Hallam
• NGB Awards

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What career opportunities are there for me to
aspire towards?

• Sport Scientist
• Sport Nutritionalist
• Exercise Referral
• Sports Coach
• Health Trainer
• Personal trainer
• Sport Development Officer
• Youth Development Officer
• Event Manager
• Partnership Development Manager

• Wellbeing Officer
• PE teacher
• Sport Manager
• Public Relations
• Outdoor Activities Management
• Sport Researcher
• School Sport Co-ordinator
• Post Graduate study SHU
• Private sports consultant
• Further study PGCE, Youth Work etc.

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Other important info

• UCAS form what do admissions tutors look for
  well written, additional experiences/qualification
  s, potential grades, interests what do you
  aspire to
• Tuition Fees - 3,145 per year _at_ SHU, there are
  some scholarships and bursaries. e.g. Hallam
  Access partnership school pupils can access
  300 each taught year,
• Scholarships of 1000 are eligible for those with
  the most UCAS points on the following courses
• BA (Hons) Sport and Community Development, BSc
  (Hons) Sport Coaching, BSc (Hons) Sport Science
  for Performance Coaching, Do what you have a
  passion for, what type of activities do you do in
  your spare time, are you a volunteer?
• Make sure you do research of what and where to go
  (or not to go) 3 years experience life
  changing experience

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Any Questions?

• Enquiries about Sport and Leisure related degrees
  at Sheffield Hallam University
• admissions_at_shu.ac.uk

Fiona Phoenix Sport Management f.phoenix_at_shu.ac.uk
0114 225 5847