Programme Specifications

Programme summary

1. Programme Aims

• Analyse and evaluate leadership and business challenges and responses facing sport business professionals
• Develop students as leaders in sport through practical application and team work, analysing and evaluating problems and responding to sport leadership and business challenges in real time
• Develop a critical understanding of the social, environmental and economic issues that are essential to leadership and management in the sport industry
• Develop students' critical thinking to assess the development, evaluation and implementation of innovation as a process and its application to sport leadership and business
• Develop leaders in sport who have the leadership and business skills that have specific application to the challenges confronting sport organisations at the global, national and local level 

2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:

• UK Quality Code for Higher Education, The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, April 2012, especially Part A: Setting and maintaining academic standards:
  • The Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (FHEQ), the QAA, August 2008
  • Master’s Degree Characteristics, the QAA, March 2010
  • The Higher Education Credit Framework for England, the QAA, August 2008
• The Quality Code, Part B: Assuring and enhancing academic quality
  • Chapter B1: Programme Design, Development and Approval
  • Chapter B3: Learning and Teaching
  • Chapter B4: Enabling student development and achievement
  • Chapter B6: Assessment of students
• Subject benchmark for the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism group

(http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/HLST08.pdf)

• Master’s Degree Subject Benchmark for Business and Management, the QAA, 2007
• Accreditation by the Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management.

3. Programme Learning Outcomes

3.1 Knowledge and Understanding

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• K1 Leadership and strategic capabilities in a local and global sport context.
• K2 Cognitive and behavioural leadership habits which lead to appropriate actions where innovation and influence are required.
• K3 Their own capacity for leadership and business as well as leadership in others through and examination of and reflection on the actions of leaders and followers.
• K4 The role of leadership in establishing ethical business practices and organisational integrity in the sport environment.
• K5 Critically evaluate the ways in which study of a complementary subject deepens knowledge and understanding of the influence of Leadership in sport. 

3.2 Skills and other attributes

a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• C1 Develop a thorough grounding in the main leadership theories, concepts, and issues.
• C2 Understand the relevance of leadership theory and business practice to the sport environment and the student’s biography of experience.
• C3 Understand the nature of leadership construction in a social context.
• C4 Learn how to leverage sports and lead sport organisations for greater social, environmental and economic good. 

b. Subject-specific practical skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• P1 Engage with leadership and management theories and to apply them to their own circumstances.
• P2 Explore the nexus between leadership and business knowledge, personal ambitions, work/life integration, and experiences.
• P3 Analyse contemporary issues that allow students to apply leadership theories and explore leadership in ‘real’ situations within the context of sport.

c. Key transferable skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• T1 Develop skills in the assessment of leadership, business practice, and the identification of leadership development.
• T2 Develop conceptual understanding of the influence of leadership and business practice on individual and group behaviour in organisations.
• T3 Challenge the ethical and moral standards and priorities that leaders apply to business and professional behaviour.
• T4 Identify leadership and management styles and strengths and map steps to improve leadership capacity.
• T5 Develop research skills that will allow students to complete a research project.

4. Programme structure

List compulsory and optional modules in each Part semester (Code, title, modular weight).

*Students will pick a second subject from the list of nominated second subject modules (below) in the first semester:

Second Subject Modules:

**Students must choose and complete any 1 of the optional modules in semester two to complete the MSc Sport Leadership

Note – Students who want to take New Media and Analytics for Sport Business as their optional module in Semester 2 MUST take Sport Business Statistics and Analytics as their optional module in Semester 1.

5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award

In order to be eligible for the award, candidates must satisfy the requirements of regulation XXI.

All modules available in the Special Assessment Period (SAP) unless specified in the Module Specification.

6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the Purposes of Final Degree Classification

Not Applicable