SMGT20080 Sports Work Placement

Academic Year 2024/2025

This module is designed to facilitate work placement experience in sports management for students. This module will encourage and enable students to assume greater responsibility for the planning and evaluation of their own learning. The internship is for a minimum period of 6 weeks in the Spring and/or Summer trimester. During this period students are expected to conform to the normal working hours of the host company and complete a minimum of 200 hours work experience.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should be able to:

(i) improve awareness of the broader environment of sport;
(ii) develop new and employment-related skills and gain an understanding of how a sports organisation/business is managed;
(iii) work independently and as part of a team within the parameters of the agreed work plan and time-scale;
(iv) understand the link between academic development and workplace requirements;
(v) make a reasoned assessment of critical incidents and personal and academic capabilities.

Indicative Module Content:

Setting SMART work objectives
Developing a CV, job hunting and interview skills
Assessing own skills
Critically evaluating incidents in the workplace
Evaluating knowledge transfer in the workplace and making links with prior academic learning
A minimum of 6 weeks of a work placement and a minimum of 200 hours of work

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

8
Specified Learning Activities

48
Placement/Work Experience

200
Total

256
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Prior to placement a number of face to face lecturers are given with an overview of the sports work placement, the setting SMART work objectives, writing a CV, making job applications and developing interview skills.
The work placement takes place in the Spring and/or Summer trimesters for a period of 6 weeks commencing in the Spring trimester and finishing by the end of the Summer trimester. Students are not permitted to complete their placement outside of these dates without permission from the Module Co-ordinator. During this period students are expected to work within the agreed working hours of the host company and complete a minimum of 200 hours work experience. More information on the module and assessments is detailed in the Sports Work Placement Student Handbook. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Additional Information:
Students must have successfully completed 50 credits from Stage 1 before undertaking the Sports Work Placement module.


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Participation in Learning Activities: Skills' audit n/a Graded No

20
Report(s): Knowledge transfer report n/a Graded No

50
Participation in Learning Activities: Specification of work placement objectives n/a Graded No

15
Reflective Assignment: Critical Incident Analysis n/a Graded No

15

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
Repeat (CFP) Within Three Semesters
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Ross Neville Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Professor Eleni Theodoraki Lecturer / Co-Lecturer