Curriculum Information

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Educational Aim

Learning Outcomes

Course Structure

Level 4 Modules

Level 5 Modules

Teaching and Assessment

Learning and Teaching Methods

Employer Engagement

We will sustain and deepen the course’s co-created model by continuing to engage Club Charity employers and EFLitC staff as ongoing contributors to curriculum design and delivery. Key mechanisms will include: 

• Annual Club Mentor Meetings, where mentors and Heads of Educations will help shape future curriculum content, share emerging practice, and advise on delivery approaches. 

• Termly mentor feedback forms, capturing insights into student support needs, success stories, and areas for improvement. 

• Continued use of themed focus groups with Club Charity staff to explore key topics (e.g. coaching, health and wellbeing and professional practice) and identify opportunities for innovation, expert contributions, or assessment co-design. 

• Employer partners will also be invited to contribute live briefs, guest talks, or input into authentic assessments across relevant modules. 

Drawing on the successful partnership model already in place, this engagement will ensure the course remains responsive to sector trends, professional expectations, and localised delivery contexts

Means of Assessment

The assessment strategy employs a progressive approach, moving from structured assessments at Level 4 to more complex, open-ended projects which allow for student choice at Levels 5 and 6 (Top Up). Level 4 assessment focuses on developing foundational knowledge and academic skills through structured portfolios, basic practical assessments, and guided case studies with regular formative feedback. Level 5 introduces more authentic assessment through a performance appraisal, presentations on project developments, more complex practical assessment, and collaborative projects. At all levels, assessment will be based upon real-world challenges that will be co-created with the EFLitC and their network of football club charities. 

The nature of challenge-based learning requires a continuous cycle of reflection and feedback as students use this to identify gaps in their knowledge, understanding and skills. This informal on-going assessment and feedback will be provided by peers, EFLitC staff and Club Mentors as students co-create their knowledge. Given learning outside of Residential Visits will take place on the VLE, the course team would also be encouraging engagement with integrated online tasks (formative assessment), where Module Leaders can engage with students by affirming their views, challenging them and connecting peer-to-peer. Within specific modules, students will be provided opportunities to use self-assessment to develop skills of reflection and set goals for self-development. This will be guided, scaffolded, and reinforced throughout the course through appropriate formative assessment opportunities. 

Students will have different formative opportunities to present assessments prior to summative submissions in the form of presentations and draft assessment plans to peers and Club Mentors. During their WBL students will be expected to demonstrate their knowledge and provide evidence to support their achievement of relevant module LO’s and will receive regular feedback and supervision from their Club Mentor in relation to their development in practice. 

Assessments on this course are designed to reflect real-world industry challenges, with a strong focus on the Health and Wellbeing Accelerator theme. Students plan and deliver inclusive coaching sessions, create wellbeing-focused resources, and reflect on their impact which mirrors key responsibilities in community sport roles. Modules such as Football for Development and Leadership and Organisational Practice also link lightly to Security and Justice, exploring how sport can tackle inequality and promote ethical leadership. Creative Innovation is also evident in modules where students produce digital or creative outputs, such as PE schemes or campaign materials. Overall, the course assessments are varied and authentic, informed by feedback from the EFLitC and club mentors, ensuring they are directly applicable to professional practice. This approach supports employability, while equipping students to contribute to societal goals aligned with USW’s Accelerator priorities. Please see below a table that highlights the modules, assessments and the accelerator they map to: 

Learning Support

Induction 

Induction for level 4 students is delivered as part of a Residential Study Visit to USW. This visit would last approx. 4-days, where students would be accommodated in Halls or the surrounding area. Induction for Level 5 and 6 students would either replicate this or be delivered at another location, where there is less need to induct the students to university level study and the basic requirements of the course. 

If students cannot attend Induction, at any level, then they could access materials on their Course Organisation page on Blackboard. Stored materials would include any resources relating to a session delivered, as well as recordings and where to go for further support. Additionally, the students’ Club Mentor and Course Leader would be responsible for helping the student to catch-up on missed information. 

Induction is driven by a set of four University principles, designed to enable students to identify positively with their course and fellow students, introduce studying at university and support mechanisms surrounding this, and explore expectations for andragogical learning. 

Principles include: - 

• Transition 

• Teambuilding, problem solving and getting to know you 

• Our expectation of Students 

• The who and how of academic and pastoral support 

Staff receive updated guidance annually to help them consider and design meaningful induction activities (Academic Induction Guidance). 

A centrally designed workshop, including resources, explores the Universities values (Professional, Responsive, Creative, Inspiring, Collaborative) is available for all staff to embed into Induction, enabling students to co-create their understanding of the University’s expectations. 

In addition, the University’s Academic Blueprint (outlining module and course essentials) also requires courses to design a six- week immersive project, culminating in a summative assessment. This module not only sets the expectations of active, co-created learning but provides an opportunity for early formative and summative feedback, helping identify students that need additional academic support. 

Students requiring additional help will be offered the services of the Student Support Service and the Progression Team. 

Learner Analytics 

Learner Analytics is used to monitor engagement, but the course team has its own process which has been in operation for many years and have therefore been designed to monitor and support engagement effectively for students on these courses. The following processes are operated in this area: 

• Creation and distribution (to Club Mentors) of a Grade Matrix. This gathers summative assessment scores for all students at all clubs, allowing Mentors to see grades for all their students. 

• Population of a Retention Register, which gathers data on students of concern. This would be non-submissions, lack of attendance, lack of engagement with VLE, missed PAC meetings and health concerns. 

Monthly Monitoring Form completed by Club Mentors where they outline to the course team any concerns they have about their students, which would include a lack of attendance, lack of engagement, health concerns, missed summative assessments or engagement with WBL. 

Office hours 

The course team would normally be available from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm, however, it is appreciated that blended learning approaches requires flexible patterns of attendance across a range of learning, teaching and assessment modalities. 

Tutorials 

Tutorials are available on all modules, mainly relating to summative assessments. 

Seminars 

Not applicable. 

Formative Assessment 

The nature of challenge-based learning and teaching methods require a continuous cycle of reflection and feedback as students use feedback and assessment (both internal and external) to identify gaps in their knowledge, understanding and skills. This informal on-going assessment and feedback will be provided by peers, ADO’s and Club Mentors as students co-create their knowledge. Given learning outside of Residential Visits will take place on the VLE, the course team would also be encouraging engagement with integrated online tasks, where Module Leaders can engage with students by affirming their views, challenging them and connecting peer-to-peer. Within specific modules, students will be provided opportunities to use self-assessment to develop skills of reflection and sets goals for self-development. This will be guided, scaffolded, and reinforced throughout the course through appropriate formative assessment opportunities. 

Students will have different formative opportunities to present assessments prior to summative submissions in the form of presentations and draft assessment plans to peers and Club Mentors. At L6 students will also have an Academic Supervisor who will provide independent project supervision. Club Mentors will further provide support for students to develop their skills on an ongoing basis as part of the weekly WBL. 

During their WBL students will be expected to demonstrate their knowledge and provide evidence to support their achievement of relevant module LO’s and will receive regular feedback and supervision from their Club Mentor in relation to their development in practice. Students will complete a formative midway review at the half-way stage of each placement to identify any gaps and ensure transparency regarding progression. 

Progress meetings 

Students should meet their ADO (individually) at least once during every term at a pre-arranged time. These meetings should focus on the student’s personal and professional development.  Additional progress meetings with module leaders or the Course Lead can be requested and are welcomed. 

Research Supervision 

Students are allocated an academic supervisor as outlined in the University Policy, that outlines minimum expectations for the supervision of taught dissertation/independent learning projects, ensuring students get a parity of experience. This Policy outlines expectations at a faculty, module, supervisor, and student level. 

Online Resources and Digital Support 

All modules are linked to UniLearn, the USW integrated system, which supports assessment, learning and teaching activities through technology. Video capture, podcasts and short video clips will supplement face-to-face taught components of the course (during Residential Visits), providing context and additional learning to support student’s development. 

Students will also engage with other digital resources during their time on Residential Visits and while in-situ at their CCO and have the opportunity to engage with several synchronous or asynchronous learning opportunities designed to facilitate CPD. 

Library Services 

Core texts to be purchased by the EFL Trust and made available within each participating CCO learning hub. 

Students able to access 158 HE institutions throughout the UK via the Sconul Access service. 

Librarian to deliver introductory presentation during induction and provided recorded summary to be hosted on the Course Organisation page. 

All module reading lists to be access via the E-Library. 

Postal loan and scan delivery service made available to all students. This service is for USW students wanting to request a USW book by post or, to request a digital scan of a print-only copy of a USW journal article or book chapter to their email. 

Review the reading list to ensure that it is reflective of the societies we aim to serve e.g. cultures, religions, ethnicity. Ensure that there is an even split of Male/Female authors within the lists. 

Review blackboard reading list engagement. 

Club mentors to review club core textbooks to see how well utilised these are. 

Student Development and Study Skills (SDSS) 

This department is collaborated with mainly in two ways. Firstly, they are invited to deliver guest talks to our students at appropriate times during the Residential programme. This is often scaffolded and targeted, dependent upon the level of study and time in the year. This all starts with a Welcome Talk during Year 1 Induction Residential, which is when the online offerings are also shared with the student cohort. 

Advice Zone 

The AZO is a familiar place of contact for our students and provide support in a range of ways, but most popular are queries around University level items that require signposting, or for more information on the Extenuating Circumstances process. 

Disability Advice Team 

The Disability Service provides a confidential and professional service where students can discuss individual requirements relating to disability. This includes students with physical, sensory, mental health or unseen disabilities, specific learning difficulties (e.g., dyslexia) and autism. 

Advice and support are available for all students who have additional learning needs or require reasonable adjustments to be made. Students are encouraged to discuss additional needs or support with personal tutors, the Course Leader and their Practice Educator. 

https://disability.southwales.ac.uk/ 

Mental Wellbeing 

Students requiring help in this area can speak to?The Wellbeing Service?at USW or contact Nightline (a confidential listening service run by USW students for USW students). This information is made available to students via the course handbook. 

Progression Advice Team 

This team supports students particularly when entering the LOE process. They’re collaborated with to understand the students’ needs and will communicate with academics who refer students into the process. If a student’s decides to re-engage, support is gained from this team to develop this. 

Careers Service 

This service has been engaged from the outset to ensure that employability skills and compassionate leadership are scaffolded. Their involvement will be embedded within delivery through delivery upon residential study components. Careers material will also be embedded across L4-6 of the course the designated work-based learning modules. During Residential Study Visits, students will get the opportunity to attend forums such as these, where the academic team would engage with USW Careers to facilitate such delivery.  

USW Careers team are utilised to ensure employability skills are scaffolded across the module enabling them to be explicitly developed, revisited, practices and their relevance linked to the workplace. Methods of assessment within the module are authentic and simulate skills required in the workplace and through the next three years of study at undergraduate level. 

Course Exit Points

Progression Route

Entry Requirements

Admission to the course is typically through the following qualifications:

Inclusive Curriculum Statement

The University of South Wales operates a policy of inclusive learning, teaching and assessment to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to fulfil their educational potential. Course teams will have considered ways of designing out any potentially disadvantageous element of courses during the course design process. However some specific needs may remain, details about how to apply to have your needs assessed can be found at: http://unilife.southwales.ac.uk/pages/3040-disability-and-dyslexia-service/

Addendum for Delivery at a Partner Institution

N/A