Physical Education (part-time)

Key features

• Employability skills enhanced through varied community engagement projects
• A range of exciting placement opportunities facilitated
• Small class sizes and regular access to facilities
• Access to a full range of National Governing Body and short course awards (incentives available)
• High quality teaching, industry experts and research expertise
• Quality Nike University of Cumbria Sports Kit for use on and off campus
• Exciting career exit routes

Why study with us?

A degree in Physical Education could be your first step towards an exciting career in coaching, sport development, health development or even teaching. If you’re keen to engage in a practically-oriented course that makes the most of your talent or interest in Physical Education, then you may have found your match.

This course provides the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills that support entry into teaching and coaching careers, alongside the opportunity to explore the realms of sport development, or physical activity and health development. At the end of your second year, you will be able to participate in five-week work experience placement, where you can put your knowledge to the test. Some of our students are even offered employment or further development as a result of their placement.

In a recent external examiner’s report, the course was commended for its student support and guidance, and for the variety and quality of its teaching.

What can this course lead to?

A degree in Physical Education can lead to a wide range of career destinations. Some graduates have taken advantage of the opportunities to develop fitness specialism and become personal trainers or work in private gyms; others have opted to get further training to become teachers or physiotherapists.

Resources and facilities

The university's sports centre boasts a large, multi-purpose sports hall and an air conditioned fitness suite with 12 cardio vascular stations, eight fixed weight stations and a free weights area. The facility is run by Register of Exercise Professionals accredited staff. Read more about the Carlisle sports centre.

Entry requirements

240 UCAS tariff points.

GCSEs at grade C or above in English.

Find out more about qualification options from the UCAS tariff table.

Please check selection criteria for any additional entry requirements.

Credit and UCAS requirements Credit: Not Applicable UCAS code: XCC6 UCAS points: 240 Selection criteria

All places are offered subject to successful CRB clearance.

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Modules

Level four

• Research and Study Skills
• Mechanical Analysis of Human Movement
• Psychology of Skill Acquisition
• Curricular Applications of Outdoor Education
• Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
• Contemporary Social Issues in Sport and Physical Education I

Level five

• Contemporary Social Issues in Sport and Physical Education II
• Approaches to Teaching in Physical Education
• Inter-disciplinary Concepts of Movement
• Psychology of Teaching/Coaching
• Health, Physical Activity and Lifestyle
• Community Sport Development

Level six

• Placement
• Investigative Research Project
• Contemporary Social Issues in Sport and Physical Education III
• Assessment of Fitness*
• Exercise Prescription*
• Managing Sports Events*

*option choices

Course summary

The programme has been designed to promote and extend your knowledge and skills relating to the study of physical education, sport development and health development. Students will develop knowledge in all three areas of study at levels four and five and will specialise at level six according to career choices.

All students are registered on to BA (Hons) Physical Education, taking a series of compulsory modules at levels four and five. At level six you have the option of enhancing your physical education degree by choosing two of a number of options in sport or health development.

A special feature is the five week, 80-hour equivalent, work experience placement at the end of the second year, where you apply your learning. We help you secure a placement in a school, in coaching, in sport development or in health promotion. Core modules prepare you for this experience and help you reflect upon it to enhance your personal and professional development. Across the programme assessment includes oral and poster presentations, a special study, coaching and teaching logbooks and portfolios, written and oral reports, including a laboratory report, essays, individual and group projects, and examinations (seen, open book and unseen). Approximately 75% is coursework and 25% examination.

In the transition period between level five and level six you are guided to your study of Physical Education with sport development, or physical activity and health development, whichever best suits your future career aspirations.

Case studies

"The things I like about the course are the opportunities to actually teach, whether it be in lecture time or through the third year placement module. The lecturers are always available to talk to if you have a question or a problem. They are always willing to find out information if they don’t already know the answer." - Dan Grey

"My placement was a very exciting opportunity; it allowed me to see behind the scenes in sport and experience what life would be like working in that environment. The completion of our outdoor education module allowed us to travel to the Lake District for a four-day camp and included hiking, canoeing and orienteering. This was a great class bonding module, it was interesting, exciting and allowed us to learn outside of the classroom." - Jess Lawson