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Foundation Degree in Science - FdSc
Aston Villa Foundation
Full Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
This course will be delivered across Villa Park, Aston Villa Brookvale Inner City Academy, Alexander Stadium, and Birmingham City University campuses. These facilities will expose you to state-of-the-art sport and development environments and access to cutting-edge resources and designated sport areas. This course content is designed to ensure graduates develop the pedagogical practice required to coach participants of different ages and abilities across the School and Community delivery areas of the Aston Villa Foundation. After graduation, you will be positioned to gain employment in sports coaching and community-based development roles. You can also continue your undergraduate studies at Birmingham City University on their BSc (Hons) Sports courses. We will help you develop an understanding of your coaching philosophy and explore industry and socio-cultural factors influencing the broader context of sport and the work of the Aston Villa Foundation. You will apply the theoretical underpinnings of coaching and have access to hands-on experiences across various community settings. Furthermore, you will learn about sport development principles and how they align with community work by addressing societal and contemporary issues. This course will allow you to understand the work of Football Foundations across primary school and alternative education settings, focusing on the work that community sport plays in complimenting the national curriculum. You will learn about the contemporary information that educators within this sector require. Furthermore, the course will explore health and well-being environments, which will help you embed mental and physical attributes in your coaching practice. This is also an opportunity for you to gain the knowledge and skills needed to negotiate different challenges in your future profession. To help build these skills, you will go on placements where you will work face-to-face and gain first-hand experience in a coaching, community, or school environment, which will enhance your future employability and personal network.
This module will support your transition to Higher Education by helping you build your skills and become more independent and self-managed in your approach to study, learning and time management. You'll develop skills and techniques used in the study of sport, as well as looking at the way in which research is conducted across sporting disciplines. This will help you begin to develop a more scientific and academic approach to your studies.
This module will provide you with a core foundation of knowledge in Physical Education (PE) and School Sport. It is intended that you will be aware of how PE differs to School Sport, but also how they can be interlinked.
The aim of this module is to introduce the theories and methods of coaching. This will include topics such as athlete development, coaching models, coach education, interpersonal relationships, and contextual influences on coaching. The module will focus on delivering a blend of lectures, seminars, and practicals.
This module provides an introduction into equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and allows students to understand the importance of these for inclusive practice. By promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, students will gain a greater understanding of how these principles will help any individual fulfil their science- and practice-based potential, irrespective of their background or circumstances. In so doing it will also help to better serve society by attracting the widest possible talent to the sport, as well as fostering a greater diversity of scientific ideas, research, practice and technology.
This module will provide you with the practical and theoretical background to coaching across a variety of community settings. This will offer you the opportunity to engage with session planning and delivery across different age ranges and ability levels. This will include lesson planning-, short-, medium- and long-term goal setting and demonstration of outstanding delivery against a community coach quality assurance framework.
The module will provide an exploration of intervention strategies across school and community settings. A range of specialist community intervention areas are covered, along with the application and integration of specialist technical knowledge and skills within diversionary activity and outreach work. Specific focus will be on the planning, delivery, and evaluation of sessions that engage young people and raise aspirations through high quality sports activity, which will equip you with the skills to support the development of participants from a variety of backgrounds and settings.
This module aims to develop and utilise pedagogical skills in a real-world setting, whilst providing an opportunity to critically develop learning and experience, and work on a live piece of investigation with the placement provider. Application of subject knowledge as well as curriculum and syllabus design will be key to the successful completion of this work. This module will also provide an opportunity to develop essential employability attributes (e.g., interpersonal and intrapersonal skills).
This module explores the development and application of knowledge, skills, and expertise in elite coaching practice. This module's specific focus will equip you with the ability to design, deliver, and evaluate a session within an elite environment, primarily focusing on technical, tactical, physical, psychological, and social coaching competencies.
Within this module students will learn about the reasons for physical activity promotion and the barriers to physical activity participation. Students will identify the recommended daily guidelines for physical activity, whilst exploring health and social strategies to improve lifestyle through facilitating physical activity behaviours.
This module is underpinned by the need for developing practitioners to be aware of contemporary sports coaching and development issues. You will identify key principles and research that support students to engage in sports. Furthermore, what local, national, and international initiatives and policies are available to promote a physically active and healthy lifestyle. Contemporary issues will be explored in an interactive format whereby you can share thoughts, debate, and generate ideas for future health-related initiatives, further enhancing your subject knowledge.
This module is a key part of the BSc Sport and Exercise Science, Sports Therapy, Sport and Exercise Nutrition, and PE and School Sport Programmes in that it is studied in preparation for your Level 6 Final Year Project . Information and activities on more complex inferential statistics will be presented building on from your level 4 research module.
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