Sports Management BA (Hons)

Year two

• Experience and Employment in Sport 

Experience and Employment in Sport

This module aims to provide students with an opportunity to experience the workplace and to develop skills and knowledge in a relevant discipline. The module will help prepare students for the workplace by raising awareness of workplace issues, and encouraging them to reflect on their own personal and professional development. It will also help students to define and then develop the specific work-related skills that they need in order to become more employable. Students will be encouraged to share experience in order to encourage learning and to help them articulate their strengths.

• Fundamentals of Accounting 

Fundamentals of Accounting

This is a core module for all business management programmes and recognises the importance of accounting and solid budgetary control. This module introduces students to the role and nature of financial accounting in business operations and highlights the concepts that encompass responsible financial management. Students will learn to understand key items of information contained in the published financial statements of companies and other organisations. The module includes the preparation of accounting statements, with emphasis on their use, interpretation and limitations.

Please note: this module supports your progress towards the CMI Level 5 Diploma in Management and Leadership, the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting and the CIPFA Professional Accounting Qualification – Certificate Level.

• Managing Sporting Events 

Managing Sporting Events

This module provides an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all sizes and types.  The module provides a framework of the sports event planning process, using short and long-term strategies, and an overview of operational strategies. By the end of this module students will not only have an enhanced theoretical understanding of the concept of sports event organisation and management and the importance of a strategic approach, but know how to implement strategies that can achieve successful sports events over the short and long-term.

• Research Methods in Sport 

Research Methods in Sport

This module aims to provide students with a solid grounding in the theory and practice of research in sport management as preparation for the Leve 6 (year three) independent project and dissertation work. Students cover relevant theory from a research perspective and are presented with realistic research situations through which it is possible to consider different approaches to the study of sport management and the major research methods and techniques employed. 

• Sports and the Law 

Sports and the Law

This topical module aims to examine the laws that apply within the sports context. It will give students a sound understanding of the legal principles surrounding professional and amateur sport and its regulation including: dispute resolution, anti-doping, employment law, criminal law and negligence in a sporting context.

• Sports Journalism and Media Relations 

Sports Journalism and Media Relations

This module is designed to enable students to develop a solid knowledge and understanding of how sports news operates in the context of global communications.  It will allow them to apply core principles of journalism to sports reporting and public relations.   In addition students will be able to write about sport to a minimal professional and ethical standard.  Finally students will have the opportunity to produce different types of sports media content for multiple platforms.

• Starting a Business Venture 

Starting a Business Venture

Starting a business is an exciting venture for anyone to take up. In this module theory and practice combine to provide students with the skills to set up their very own business. This module takes students on a journey starting with identifying gaps in the market right through to preparation of a business plan and all stages in between. This module is designed to ensure students are aware of the best conditions for business success They are also given the opportunity to present their business idea to a panel of business leaders in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ format.

• Marketing Strategy and Implementation Optional

Marketing Strategy and Implementation

(Optional)

In order for a business to survive or grow it needs to employ marketing techniques as part of a strategy to generate awareness, interest desire and then action. This module looks at current approaches and techniques for managing the development and implementation of marketing strategies. Sessions cover various marketing models that are used in business and public service. Students are also made aware of the integral role social responsibility and ethics has in marketing. They will also discover the analytical tools that help marketing managers make effective and important marketing decisions.