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1 Course Inormation Form (CIF) The CIF provides core inormation to students, sta teams and others on a particular course o study. Section 1 - General Course Inormation Course Title Qualiication MA Sport Development Management Master o Arts Intermediate Qualiication(s) Awarding Institution University o Bedordshire Location o Delivery Mode(s) o Study and Duration AB Full-time over 1 year Part time pathway typically over 2 years Core Teaching Pattern 3 FHEQ Level 7 Proessional, Statutory or Regulatory Body (PSRB) accreditation or endorsement PSRB Renewal Date University o Bedordshire Employability accreditation Route Code (SITS) Subject Community Not applicable Not applicable MASDMABF Sport Science and Physical Activity UCAS Course Code Relevant External Benchmarking Studying at Masters Level The Subject Benchmarking Statements and Academic Standards or a Master s award in General business and management 2007 (QAA /07) are used to ground this degree. The degree expects you, as a student, to be able to demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding o organisations, the external context in which they operate and how they are managed. The degree will be a challenging learning experience and an integration between theory and practice. As a student you will relect on your knowledge, experience and practice, using peer and tutor interaction as one o the key Course Inormation Form (CIF) - February QAP0021 Page 1 o 11

2 processes. Further details o these benchmarks can also be obtained by accessing The course meets the QAA subject benchmarking or M-level courses. The assessment criteria or the degree address the QAA descriptors o the attributes o a graduate at Masters level. To relect the sport-speciic nature o the subject-matter, the programme is designed to promote and develop excellent perormance in the management o sport and development and is purposely aligned with the Hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism 2008 (QAA /08) subject perormance indicators Section 2 - Published Inormation Material in this section will be used on the course web site to promote the course to potential students. The text should be written with this potential audience in mind. Course Structure The Units which make up the course are: Unit Code Level Credits Unit Name Core or option SPOxxx-6a 7 30 Leadership and Management in Sport Core SPO Funding or Sport Core SPO Sport Development An International Core Perspective SPO Research Methods In Sport Core SPO0xxx-6b 7 15 Project Management and Development Core SPO0xxx-6c 7 15 Sport Policy and Politics Core SPOxxx-6d 7 60 Sport Development Management Dissertation Core Why study this course The Sport Development Management programme aims to be at the leading edge o international and UK study in sport and development a specialised proessional and research ield that is built upon the role o sport in the development process. The course is designed to empower current and uture leaders working in the public and voluntary, as well as private areas o sport and development management, providing advanced skills and knowledge necessary to enter and excel in this dynamic ield. The course has two primary, though interrelated oci: Firstly, the management and development o sport, with an emphasis on the development and enhancement o sport participation and providing sustainable pathways to policy and practice. Secondly, development through sport, where sport is used as an eective and cost eicient tool or human and social development. The Sport Development Management programme has been developed in response to the demand or these highly skilled sport development managers. The programme integrates a variety o problem and project-based learning and teaching approaches so that students maximise their proessional and personal development. Built around a core o Masters-level analysis and management in sport development, students are encouraged to personalise their studies through appropriate choices o option units to relect their career aspirations. Through a varied and stimulating curriculum units are primarily delivered within a range o learning activities, including lectures, seminars and Action Learning Sets. A comprehensive range o supported blended learning and tutorial support is available to suit the needs o ull-time and part-time students who will be provided with the proessional skills and knowledge to work in this challenging ield. The programme team has a high reputation in delivering teaching and learning, and contains a wide range o currency and experience in speciic subject areas such as leisure, sport, inclusion, management, health and policy development. Course Summary Educational Aims The educational aims o the Sport Development Management masters are grounded in the University s mission to provide a supportive yet challenging teaching and learning environment aimed at ully enhancing your knowledge, proessional skills and employability within the courses two primary, though interrelated subject oci: Firstly, Sport Development, with an emphasis on the development o sporting participation or sport or Course Inormation Form (CIF) - February QAP0021 Page 2 o 11

3 sport s sake (at all levels) and the role and delivery o sport as a social instrument through which personal, community, national and international development objectives may be achieved. Secondly, Sport Management, with an emphasis on the core management practices associated with sport organisations and study o core knowledge, skill sets and leadership qualities necessary to implement strategies towards achieving a variety o sport development outcomes within and across local, national and international environments. Overall, the course has been designed to support you in acquiring the necessary personal competencies, practical skill-sets and subject expertise needed to become a theoretically inormed and relective practitioner able to implement a wide range o development programmes, as well as manage people and organisations to achieve desired sporting aims and development outcomes within national and international contexts. Entry requirements UK student: EU students: International students: Non standard entry Special entry is available or those with no degree but with extensive management experience PSRB details NA Graduate Impact Statements The course has been designed to develop graduates who are able to: Plan and manage activities to make a positive impact upon individuals and communities within a local and global context Operate independently and collaboratively within a variety o organisational settings to coordinate and tactically deliver a wide range o strategic sport development programmes. Demonstrate a high level o independence and lexibility in the leadership o sport development programmes. Higher Education Achievement Report - Additional Inormation NA Learning and Teaching Lectures, seminars and tutorials will be used extensively, but, in addition, a great deal o participants time will be spent in small groups and workshops, involving, or example, discussion o case studies, simulation exercises, preparation or assessments, and work on presentations. Although lectures are held weekly in term time it is clear that the private study demands on this type o course are considerable. 1. The teaching and learning approach o the course is through blended learning. This means a combination o pedagogic approaches, including using the latest approaches to learning technology, action learning, and independent learning. You will acquire a toolkit o diverse and complex skills and knowledge necessary or your development as a creative organizational change agent. Student-centered sel-support groups, both ace-to-ace and/or via virtual contact, will be used throughout the course. There are thus a variety o pedagogic approaches in which the ocus o the learning is experiential to enable you to practice, experiment and evaluate in the workshops and other ace-to-ace opportunities, and to use the online technology and related acilities or knowledge acquisition and research. 2. The course oers opportunities or collaborative learning both in ace-to-ace groups and online where there is increased use o collaborative learning tools such as discussion boards, blogs and wikis. Some may be acilitated by lecturers, other sta or even by our industry partners. Others may be initiated and run by students Course Inormation Form (CIF) - February QAP0021 Page 3 o 11

4 (peer-managed). These tools oer you considerable opportunities to learn rom others in the group and extend your learning experience beyond the boundaries o the ormal session. 3. The teaching strategy will be eclectic enabling you to gain the necessary underpinning theoretical knowledge and research that will enable you to actively explore, relect and critically evaluate your own perceptions and knowledge. This approach will also help you to become an autonomous and sel-directed learner. This means you will be conident o your capabilities as an independent learner and researcher and able to manage your own learning in line with your busy work schedule, using your learning skills to develop a depth and breadth o subject-matter knowledge, relecting and analysing the implications o this or your understanding o innovation and changing sport and development context and applying this new understanding in practical situations accordingly. 4. There will be an initial induction at the start o the course. The aim o the induction is to amiliarize you with your student colleagues and the course team and to give you a very practical insight into the MA learning experience. Attendance at this week long induction is required beore continuing on the course and will include team building and project-based work. The induction will be acilitated by members o the course team and will ocus on learning through critical relection, peer and lecturer eedback, and sel analysis. You will also be introduced to the dierent acilities and resources at your disposal. It is an essential element o the course and will ensure you approach the learning on the course eectively rom the start o the semester. 5. Each study unit will have dedicated integrated materials, which can be accessed via the University virtual learning environment. These give you the necessary underpinning knowledge and research directives and they are written speciically or this course by the relevant academics within the team. You will receive inormation to help you with time management to ensure that you complete each unit o study within a speciied timescale. In addition e-portolios, podcasts, wikis, and voice-to-voice seminar tutorials may be used, but please be assured technical training and support will be provided where necessary. 6. Action learning involving the use o real-lie problems and scenarios will be integrated into the workshops and other ace-to-ace sessions. This lexible process allows action, improvement and change together with relevant research to be achieved at the same time. You will gain knowledge and understanding which will allow change to be processed in an inormed way, and similarly your understanding will be urther inormed by that change. This process o learning can be replicated in the workplace to help and enable transerence o learning and is sel-development related and relective in nature. The teaching strategy is designed to support you through the process o becoming an agent or change and innovation in the ield o sport and development management. Your learning experience while studying with us will give you the opportunity to explore, experience and develop your management, including entrepreneurial and social enterprise, abilities according to your personal and business needs as well as enhancing your leadership style. In this way you can construct and interpret new meanings or the way you conduct your proessional lie Developing your employability In addition to the provision o such a variety o learning and teaching strategies a dedicated ocus on developing your Employability is embedded in the course curricula to support your career choices right rom the start. Throughout your studies opportunities to seek proessional accreditation through a range o relevant proessional bodies are currently in negotiation (or e.g. we are liaising with the Chartered Institute or the Management o Sport and Physical Activity and awaiting conirmation o their revised terms o business) and opportunities to gain various coaching awards are encouraged Department (s) Sport Science and Physical Activity (University web page: Assessment You will be required to undertake a variety o assessment approaches that vary depending upon the learning outcomes o the unit delivered. The range o assessment styles includes: written reports and essays, oral presentations, e-portolios, phase tests, collaborative projects. In addition you will undertake practical assessments related to the design, planning and delivery aspects relevant to a wide variety o sport development and sport management projects. Course Inormation Form (CIF) - February QAP0021 Page 4 o 11

5 Assessment o these activities will be based on tasks which develop vocational skills, underpinned by subject knowledge, requiring higher levels o cognition in the upper levels o the course. As you progress through the levels o study the marking criteria or all assessment styles undertaken will be that much more rigorous, with the expectation you progressively demonstrate a more theory driven understanding o sport development and management issues and practices. All assessments are graded individually although in many instances you will be required to work collaboratively with your peers in order to examine a wide variety o sport development and management issues and practical implications as this relects the type o work undertaken in the sport sector. Ater Graduation Career: We anticipate that when you complete your degree you will possess the ability to become a positive change agent in any organisation and an obvious champion or the added value o a dynamic and innovative organisational culture. You will also have had extensive and continuous opportunity or relective and critical evaluation o your capability as a team worker and leader to enable you to respond to and succeed in the everchanging and complex globalizing socio-political environment o Sport Development. The course may also equip you with the Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurial skills necessary to start your own business or expand the business you are in. The course includes a proessional and personal development strand that will be assessed (The Sport Manager). This will enable you to enhance your employability skills, relect on the skills and knowledge you may need to accelerate your career and bring value to your current and uture employment. This relates to a key theme in the Education Strategy that oers you the opportunity to participate in a curriculum that is ocused on employability and that enables all students to maximize their opportunities. During the course you will have extensive networking opportunities within the wider course team as well as the University and our industry partners. You can talk through career and urther development opportunities with your tutor as well as your peers and wider circle. Whatever you decide to do you will have a toolkit o knowledge and capabilities developed rom the course that will support and enable you. The Sport Development Management programme will help to showcase your abilities making you more attractive to employers or senior positions in the sport sector. Further study: Your tutors will always be there as a source o advice and help should you want to progress your development urther. There is the possibility that MA graduates will continue their studies with doctoral research. The course is aimed at sel-directed and motivated individuals and it is unlikely you will sit still. Alumni will be particularly welcome to input into subsequent delivery o the MA. Student Support during the course All students will be allocated a Personal Academic Tutor (PAT) at the start o the course. The tutor will provide individual academic guidance through your time at the University and will be able to act as a reeree, writing reerences or voluntary or paid positions that you apply or during and at the end o your degree. Meetings in small groups or one to one will take place each academic year and review your academic progress, career intentions and suggest actions that you can take to improve your learning. The course operates an extended induction programme, starting with pre-course guidance, through an initial induction week and then into the course which is located within core units that all students will ollow. Lecturers are able to reer to and advise students about a range o support services including PAD (Personal and Academic Development which oers academic support resources) SID (Student Inormation Desk which oers a drop in and online service or academic and non-academic advice, or example on learning support, arrangements or students with disabilities or speciic learning diiculties or guidance on mitigating circumstances or assessments). Lecturers will also reer students to the on-line resources that are able to support your learning, or example the Study Hub on-line within the University VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) called BREO (Bedordshire Resources or Education Online) or the material that can ound on the Learning Resources website. Extensive use is made o BREO to provide supporting materials or each unit that you study and to deliver interactive learning experiences. Students with disabilities The course is ully inclusive and welcomes students with disabilities. During the application process disabled students are invited to the university to discuss their needs with the Course co-coordinator, individual members o the academic sta, as well as sta rom the Health and Well Being Team. The course should not present any Course Inormation Form (CIF) - February QAP0021 Page 5 o 11

6 barriers to students with disabilities that cannot be overcome using the university s policy on support or students with disabilities. All applications identiying disabilities are ollowed up by letter or at interview to establish the level and type o support required. The Health and Well Being Team will discuss any issues you may have and can give advice on the nature o speciic disabilities and the reasonable adjustments which can be made to accommodate disabled students is available rom the Disability and Dyslexia Support Team See and BREO disabilities site - or general inormation. Course Inormation Form (CIF) - February QAP0021 Page 6 o 11

7 Assessment Map Unit Code C / O Weeks Level 7 SPOxxx-6a C s SPO022-6 C PR - Oral WR - I SPO026-6 C CW - Ess CW - Ess SPO021-6 C s s SPOxxx-6b C PR Oral WR - I SPO-xxx6c C CW -PT SPOxxx-6d F= Feedback Key: PR_ Post CW - Ess PJ - Diss Assessment type Invigilated exam Written assignment Portolio Report Project Oral Practical skills assessment Sub-categories Unseen examination (Ex), Case study examination (Ex-CS), Computer-based examination (Ex-CB), Summative in-class test or phase test (Ex-PT), Other orm o examination e.g. open book, seen exam (Ex-OT) Essay (CW-Ess), Case study (CW-CS), Literature review (CW-LR), Relective writing (CW-RW), Data exercise (CW-Data) Portolio (CW-Port), e-portolio (CW-ePort), Journal (CW-Jour) Individual report (WR-I), Business report (WR-Bus), Group report (WR-Gr), Laboratory report (WR-Lab), Poster (WR-Post), Problem-based report (WR-Prob), Field work (WR-Field), Work-based report (WR-WB) Project report (PJ-Proj), Dissertation report (PJ-Diss), Exhibition (PJ-Exhib), Arteact (PJ-Art), Collaborative activity such as a wiki (PJ-Coll) Oral presentation (PR-Oral), Viva (PR-viva) Laboratory-based (PR-Lab), OSCE (PR-OSCE), Perormance (PR-Per), Placement - where work-based skills are assessed (PR-Plac), Practical skills assessment not included elsewhere (PR-OT) Course Inormation Form (CIF) - February QAP0021 Page 7 o 11

8 Section 3 - Academic Inormation This section will be used as part o the approval and review process and peer academics are the target audience. Course Learning Outcomes Drawing on the generic employability competencies and student employability proiles (Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Subject Centre, Unit 25) and the drat benchmark statements or sport courses (QAA, 2008), as well as the content o the programme, upon successul completion o this course you should be able to:- LO1 critically assess and demonstrate a systematic understanding o relevant knowledge about the economic, environmental, sociopolitical and technological change issues relating to sport business and development management, their external context and how they are managed, including international developments and corporate governance; LO2 assess and apply relevant knowledge to a range o complex situations taking account o the development and progression o the relationship and expectations between markets and customers and other stakeholders; LO3 demonstrate a critical awareness o current issues across the Sport Development and Sport Management ields which is inormed by leading edge research and practice appropriate to each, including the concepts, structures and processes in the planning, production, and management o sporting goods and/or services; the design and implementation o sports policy; the politics o public and voluntary sports provision. LO4 analyse and evaluate sport and development managerial problems in a range o organisational contexts, and to choose, implement, communicate and deend appropriate solutions. LO5 understand and synthesise the inancing o the business enterprise, the sources, uses and management o inance and the use o accounting or managerial and inancial reporting applications; LO6 synthesise and apply practically the range o theory and practice relating to the sport management and development o people within organizations and across sectors. Course-speciic regulations NA Teaching, Learning and Assessment The teaching strategy is designed to support you through the process o becoming an agent or change and innovation in the ield o sport and development management. Your learning experience while studying with us will give you the opportunity to explore, experience and develop your management, including entrepreneurial and social enterprise, abilities according to your personal and business needs as well as enhancing your leadership style. In this way you can construct and interpret new meanings or the way you conduct your proessional lie. The assessment strategy is as ollows: 1. The underpinning philosophy o all the assessments is developmental, building on your knowledge, expertise and capabilities to ensure that you are an able and conident leader and manager. This emphasis will enable you to explore, experience and develop your understanding o sports leadership, management, development, and innovation within the context o your personal proessional needs. 2. The completion o an extended applied research project or Dissertation designed to simulate a realistic management situation, giving you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to use the knowledge and skills acquired through the taught elements o the course. 3. The overall aim o the assessment strategy is that you will receive regular and constructive eedback Course Inormation Form (CIF2013-4) Page 8 o 11

9 rom your course tutors, and student peers within the group. The team will support you to help you to use and integrate this eedback as part o your continuing proessional and sel-development. To ensure you are enabled to do this you will be provided with group and individual tutorial support rom the team as well as be encouraged to be part o the course committee. This, in turn, links to The Sport Manager personal and proessional development unit oered on the course. Your tutor will give you the active guidance to plan the next stages o your learning. This opportunity or supported sel-relection will enable you to take charge o your learning through developing critical evaluation and planning skills. 4. To acilitate and maximise learning or all students a range o assessment methods are used throughout the course and you will be required to undertake a variety o assessments. These assessments include individual and group written eedback assignments and projects, action learning reports as well as presentations. They are all rooted in authentic and practical workplace scenarios to enable learning to be transerred to the workplace. The assessments are designed to test knowledge and understanding o the appropriate underpinning theoretical input and research, but also to demonstrate your skills. An appropriate sample o all assessed work will be subject to multiple marking and external moderation to ensure appropriate quality standards and intended learning outcomes are achieved as well as consistency and airness to all. The course will maintain a balance between examinations and assignments (group and individual) and may employ other ormats including online tests and presentations. The inal project, the Integrated Management Project, pulls together all aspects o the course through a detailed review o a speciic organization. 5. Apart rom the ormal assessments there will be an emphasis on sel, peer and group assessment. However all ormal assessments will be marked, graded and moderated by proessional tutors only. The aim is or you to become an independent and sel-directed lielong learner and you will not only gain the skills and advantages o using sel-relection but you will gain more eedback rom the conventional tutor-student written eedback. This will be used primarily as part o a ormative assessment process within the units, rather than in the summative part, where moderation by others may be used. Additional Academic Inormation Initial Assessment You will submit an assessment within the irst 6 weeks and gain early eedback on your work in the ollowing unit: SPO022-6 Funding For Sport Week 6 A presentation identiying and evaluating a prospective project which requires unding. Improving students learning The course aims to enable you to become an autonomous learner and a relective and creative change agent who is able and willing to relect on experience and explore and anticipate uture opportunities, and then applying your learning to ensure innovation. The workshops and other ace to ace ormat o sessions in particular, will be organised to inspire you and give you space to release inhibitions, keep you motivated and engaged and acilitate risk taking, experimenting with new problem solving techniques that you can transer to your workplace. In order to ensure this happens the course has the ollowing continuous development design eatures. Course Inormation Form (CIF2013-4) Page 9 o 11

10 1. You will be engaged in using assessment eedback. The assessments are planned and designed to ensure you will have suitably designed tasks and assignments with clearly deined criteria and standards. The learning outcomes will be transparent and clear or each assessment. There will however be an openendedness that is inherent in all assessments. For instance you may be asked to set and draw up a scenario or problem solving within your workplace environment as part o the assignment. You will thereore be active within an authentic learning scenario, the situation is dynamic and in real time, and most importantly you will be learning and monitoring a work situation, evaluating and making adjustments as events unold. The aim o the eedback rom the tutor would be to help you to recognise your own input to the problem, and to sel-assess eicacy in the achievement o the learning objectives. You will be encouraged to be open with student peers about eedback rom assignments and to use this knowledge within the sel-study groups. 2. You will be supported throughout the course to take greater responsibility or your own development. Your sel-study groups and the ormal lectures/workshops will enable you to access resources, synthesise and make connections that will work towards solving better understandings and possible solutions to diicult problems. This energetic and active approach to learning will enhance your conidence and sel-esteem and will provide a continuous eedback loop ensuring your motivation to act as a proessional and autonomous learner. 3. The course is designed to ensure there is connectivity between the tutor, the student and the wider course team to maximize learning opportunities. All tutors are experienced in acilitation and active listening skills. Tutors will work with you in a constructive relationship to ensure a clear sense o purpose and positive intention, in line with your own personal and business needs and goals. 4. You will be encouraged to relect and evaluate the implications o your learning style or your preerred patterns o problem solving, decision making and team working. Such eedback enables you to improve your communication patterns, work more eectively with others who perhaps you label diicult and to reduce conlict. Other diagnostic tools may also be used in the workshops. However it is anticipated that personal evaluation o learning relating to creativity and innovation will be the most powerul evaluative process or the assessment o progress and direction. 5. You will be expected to document and record your own personal development throughout the course via a combination o structured relective practice and PDP processes. Academic Integrity The area o appropriate writing, reerencing and plagiarism will be introduced in the induction process and addressed speciically within the research strand o the course and reinorced throughout the units that make up this course. Details may be ound in the course handbook Internationalisation The global importance o sport in terms o popularity and role as an agent o development globally and the extensive coverage o it in the media, mean that materials and examples used in the delivery o the subject content and accessed by students or their assignments and urther reading include examples rom other countries and the drawing o comparisons. The role o sport as a Globally relevant agent o development is speciically covered in units Sport Development in Global Context. Students will also be encouraged to undertake periods o placement or study abroad as part o their course or during the Summer breaks. Sustainability Section 4 - Administrative Inormation This section will be used as part o the approval and review process and peer academics are the target audience. Faculty Education and Sport Course Inormation Form (CIF2013-4) Page 10 o 11

11 Portolio Department/School/Division Course Coordinator Postgraduate Sport Science and Physical Activity Sports Science and Physical Activity Simon Robinson Version Number 01/15 Approved by (c Quality Handbook ch.2) University Approval Panel Date o approval (dd/mm/yyyy) March 2015 Implementation start-date o this version (plus any identiied end-date) Form completed by: Name: Simon Robinson Date: 20/02/ Authorisation on behal o the Faculty Teaching Quality and Standards Committee (FTQSC) Chair: Date:... Course Updates Date (dd/mm/yyyy) Nature o Update FTQSC Minute Re: Course Inormation Form (CIF2013-4) Page 11 o 11