Sport Business Management BSc (Hons)

Sport Management: Strategy And Operations

The ‘Sport Management: Strategy and Operations’ module provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the principles of sport management and enhancing customer service. Through a combination of theory and practice, You will gain a strong understanding of managing, reviewing, and improving customer service programmes within diverse sport settings. The use of simulated and immersive technology (simmersion) will provide a safe environment for trial-and-error learning whilst utilising industry leading facilities. You will also learn how to align customer service procedures with strategic objectives, enabling them to contribute to the overall success and growth of sport organisations.

Module code: SPOR40989

Marketing In The Business Environment

Marketing plays an important role in developing relationships between customers and organisations. This module will develop your knowledge and understanding of the role of marketing and key principles. This module will equip you with the knowledge to adapt to continuously changing consumer behaviour and reflect on how these principles link to your organisation.

Module code: MKTG40334

Exploring Academic Skills And Industry Practice

This module will provide you with the tools to read, decipher and write with strong academic rigour. You will also explore your strengths and weaknesses and relate these to industry practice, before formulating your own SWOT analysis and targeted action plan to improve your employability.

Module code: SPOR40977

Introduction To Management Accounting

All those who work for, or deal with businesses need to understand accounting. This module aims to look at the nature of accounting, exploring the main concepts underpinning management accounting. The main branches of cost accounting and decision making as well as cost minimisation and revenue maximisation are explored using a blend of theory and practice. Also, how to use the metrics for ascertaining business performance and explore the different types of KPIs that help you understand the performance of your organisation or department. The module is aimed at giving you the skills and tools to measure the success of an organisation.

Module code: ACCT40315

Industry Project

Do you want to gain hands-on industry skills and experience and help solve problems or gaps in knowledge? The Industry Challenge project aims to provide an authentic experience of small-scale project and event management to address genuine problems faced by the sector. You will work alongside local industry partners to develop and deliver a project identified by them as a need within the community or organisation.

Module code: SPOR50925

Sport Placement

The opportunity to work and gain valuable experience within industry is a key fundamental of this module. Reflecting upon your individual skill set will enable you to tailor your placement experience to your own development. This is an excellent opportunity to build knowledge, network, develop contacts and above all else gain experience in-line with your own career aspirations!

Module code: SPOR50939

Digital Marketing Strategy

Effective planning and strategies are key to success in marketing. In this module, you will explore the role of digital technology in business and how to develop and implement impactful digital marketing strategies to achieve the ambition and growth of organisations.

Module code: DSMM50001

Operations Management

This module offers you a comprehensive understanding of operations management models, theories, principles, and practices with the ability to analyse and apply the appropriate tools and techniques to solve operations challenges and achieve continuous improvement. The module also includes a thorough review of operations strategy and equips students with the skills to manage future trends in manufacturing and services sectors. This professional knowledge and competence are one of the most sought-after assets in the industry.

Module code: BUSM50014

Management Accounting

You will build on the skills you have learnt in your first year and focus on decision-making techniques such as multi-stage cost allocation, marginal and absorption costing, activity-based costing and variance analysis.

Module code: ACCT50544

Social Media Strategy

Module code: DSMM40002

Digital Content Creation

Digital content creation is becoming ultra-valuable in a world where content is key. In this module, you will develop skills to help you create, plan and schedule effective digital marketing content, including writing techniques for different media formats such as blogging, digital storytelling and podcasting.

Module code: DSMM40001

Corporate Reputation And Ethics

Understanding and managing the corporate reputation is critical to successful marketing in the digital age. In this module, you will investigate a broad range of new and emerging ethical issues faced by modern marketers which impact on corporate reputation. In the digital age, corporate reputation can be damaged in minutes as news spreads across digital platforms. In this module, you will learn how to plan for contingencies, crisis and disaster as well as how to manage and sustain the corporate reputation through creating a range of corporate communications to stakeholders following the tenets of corporate social responsibility.

Module code: MKTG60356

Enterprise In Practice

In this module you will use business simulation tools and immerse yourself in a modern business environment, exploring functional team dynamics to execute business strategy

Module code: BIAE50006

Innovative Change Management

Change is inevitable if an organisation is to maintain competitiveness and currency of practice. This module has been designed to enable the learner to evaluate types and reasons for change within organisations and be able to select and apply theoretical models for its management. The purpose is not only to enable learners to develop the skills to manage change and achieve set objectives, but to do so in a professional manner with open and honest communication throughout the entire process.

Module code: BUSM60021

Project Based Learning

This is your opportunity to complete a project which focuses upon an aspect of physical education &/ sports coaching that you have a specific interest in, which can help facilitate career aspirations/ambitions, as well as providing you with a multitude of research skills. The employability skills developed during this module are transferable across a range of sporting industries and should help provide students with the flexibility to tailor their assessment to support potential career development.

Module code: SPOR60956

Data And Decision Making

Data is of great importance of modern organisations. This module will explore the role and importance of information and data within organisations, tools and techniques for analysing and interpreting the data for the purposes of decision making, and tools and techniques for data presentation and visualisation. In addition, the module will cover the concepts and principles in business statistics.

Module code: BUSM60017

Operations Management In Practice

The ‘Operations Management in Practice’ module offers you an opportunity to scrutinise a business plan and critically review its effectiveness, making suggestions on how operations can be improved. By combining theoretical concepts with practical applications, this module equips you with the necessary skills to excel in an operations-based environment within a leisure facility.

Module code: SPOR60979

Strategic Management In A Global Context

In this module you will consider the strategic position, choices, actions and its impact on multinational’s performance.

Module code: BUSM60019