Leading Community Sport and Recreation

Examine the educational significance of sport and physical activity, and gain the knowledge and skills required to lead physical activity in your community.

Examine the educational significance of sport and physical activity, and gain the knowledge and skills required to lead physical activity in your community.

For more information, see breadth track handbook

Subjects

  • Sports Coaching: Theory and Practice

    Subject code: EDUC10051
    Level: 1

    Students jumping


    As an introduction to the practical and theoretical aspects of sport and exercise coaching, you will develop leadership, organisational, communication and analytical skills used in coaching and learn how to evaluate and improve your own coaching performance.

    You will lead and participate in physical activity sessions, reflect on your own and other people's coaching practices, and create and present a session plan and a six-week training program.

    At the end of the course you will achieve the Australian Sports Commissions Community Coaching General Principles certificate.

    For more information see the Handbook.

  • Learning via Sport and Outdoor Education

    Subject code: EDUC20070  
    Level: 2

    students at Wilson's Prom
    Students enjoy a trip to Wilson’s Promontory

    Learning does not just happen in classrooms or lecture theatres. You will explore the close connections between learning and experience – particularly though two events: a fun run and a bushwalk.

    By participating in these events and exploring theory in class, you will investigate how learning occurs as experience.

    For more information see the Handbook.

  • Sport, Education and the Media

    Subject code: EDUC20068
    Level: 2

    A group of students look at paintings inside the MCG
    Students on a field trip to the MCG.

    Examine young people’s connection with sport and physical education by considering the tension between sport’s traditional role as a form of moral and social education, and its emergence as a commodity.

    You will learn what constitutes a sport, how we define it and how we determine what’s relevant to children’s sporting education. You will also analyse the many issues to do with race, socio-economic status, culture and gender in connection with sports in Australia and internationally.

    For more information see the Handbook.

  • Sport, Leadership and the Community

    Subject code: EDUC30073
    Level: 3

    Students playing wheelchair basketball

    Explore some of the key issues surrounding sport and its relevance to the broader community. Visit a range of community sporting facilities and hear from the experts what they are doing to address these issues. You will also have the opportunity to participate in interactive lectures and sports activities, and take on a leadership role of your choosing in your own sports club or community, or here at the university.

    For more information see the Handbook.

  • Sports Science & Coaching Applications

    Subject code: EDUC30070
    Level: 3

    Students in a PE class

    Explore the complex educational relationship between coach, athlete, coaching program and social context, and develop an open and reflective approach to your own coaching practice.

    You will gain a deeper insight into the theory and practice of sports coaching, highlighting the decision-making, learning process and scientific concepts underpinning good coaching practice.

    The subject is ideal for students who have completed Sports coaching: theory and practice, and would like to extend and enhance their skills, or for those with coaching experience. However, these are not prerequisites as the skills learned are applicable on and off the sporting field

    For more information see the Handbook.