Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2010/11 |
AS10087: Sports development |
 Credits:
| 5 |
| Level:
| Certificate |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Semester 1 at City of Bath College | |
| Semester 1 at Swindon College | |
| Semester 1 at Weston College | |
| Semester 1 at Weymouth College |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: This unit provides the student with an in depth knowledge and understanding of the sports development continuum. It identifies the main bodies which influence the development and management of sport and focuses on the pathways and processes to develop sport. Students will analyse the barriers that exist to sports participation and the political interventions used to combat it. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this unit students will be able to: * Identify how the wider cross cutting political issues impact on the sports development process from grass roots to elite performance; * Discuss the impact of social/economic issues within sports development; * Outline and analyse the barriers that prevent sport participation and development and the impact this has in a wider social/economic setting. Skills: * communication; * information technology; * basic management skills. Content: * sport and politics; * social issues in contemporary sport; * barriers to participation; * sport development continuum; * professional bodies and organisations; * funding of sport; * institutions delivering at appropriate levels of the development continuum. |