Bachelor of Letters in Sports Performance Coaching Graduate Entry

The Bachelor of Letters enables you to follow your interests and aspirations and enhance your career prospects. The Sports Performance Coaching stream will enable you to: use appropriate programming that targets strength, power, hypertrophy and muscular endurance; apply the principles of sport coaching; evaluate existing resistance programs and make modifications if required; explain the link between movement analysis of a chosen sport and the need to perform physiological testing; demonstrate knowledge of how physiological testing fits into the annual plan of strength and conditioning coaches; implement and interpret the results of a variety of field based physiological tests; prescribe exercise as a result of field based physiological testing; design a strength and conditioning program for a chosen team or individual; identify the physiological demands of various sports and apply principles of strength and conditioning to improve athletes physiological functioning; demonstrate knowledge of how skills in sport are acquired and can be improved to enhance performance; demonstrate knowledge of a further area of interest relevant to sport performance (skill acquisition, biomechanics or psychology).