Sports Studies

Course summary

Why study sport? BTEC Sport is a course designed for students who wish to progress into a career in sport or undertake further study in this area. The course covers a variety of core units that make links back to the working world of sport, together with developing your knowledge and skills in a wide range of sporting disciplines that can be applied during their working lives or in continued education. The course also combines well with a large number of other subjects and supports entry to higher education courses in a very wide range of disciplines (depending on the subjects taken alongside). What will I learn about? The course consists of four units taught over 360 guided learning hours: • Anatomy and physiology • Fitness training and programming for health, sport and wellbeing Includes research elements based on a given case study, together with supervised assessment of skills and coaching • Professional development in the sports • Application of fitness testing