Undergraduate Courses
View a list of taught modules, within the current degree programme.
Below is an overview of the courses offered within the School of Sport and Outdoor Studies at St Martin's.
Sport and Exercise Science - DipHE/BSc (Hons)
Location: Lancaster
This popular degree course offers you a challenging, interesting and rewarding three-year programme of study with good prospects of subsequent employment. The course is designed to promote knowledge and skills related to the scientific study of sport and exercise.
Sport Studies DipHE/BA (Hons)
Sport Studies and Sport Development DipHE/BA (Hons)
Sport Studies and Sport History DipHE/BA (Hons)
Location: Lancaster
The Sport Studies course team at St Martin's believes that it can offer you the experience of a lifetime. If you choose to study at St Martin's you will be taught by staff who are exceptionally well qualified in their subject areas and in groups small enough to ensure that you have the opportunity to get to know your peers and the course team. In addition, you will be coming to a School with excellent facilities and which was rated 'excellent' for its teaching, learning, student achievement and care of its students in the Quality Assurance Agency's inspection. You will be able to study Sport Studies on its own or in combination with Sport Development or with Sport History.
Coaching and Sport Development DipHE/BA (Hons)
Coaching and Sport Performance DipHE/BA (Hons)
Location: Lancaster
These two new degrees offer students the exciting opportunity to study Coaching with a specialism in either Sport Performance or Sport Development. You will be taught by coaches with national reputations in Football and Athletics,. The degrees focus on the links between theory and practice and enable you to gain work experience in either Sport Performance or Sport Development.
Physical Education BA (Hons)
PE and Sport Development BA (Hons) [Joint Hons]
PE and Health Development BA (Hons) [Joint Hons]
Location: Carlisle
This degree programme offers you a challenging, interesting and rewarding three-year programme of study with good prospects of subsequent employment. The programme is designed to promote knowledge and skills relating to the study of Physical Education, Sport Development and Health Development and offers the opportunity to follow a specific career pathway in either health-related exercise or sport development, or teaching physical education (via a 4th-year postgraduate (PGCE) route in Secondary or Primary schools).
Outdoor Studies - BSc/BA (Hons)
Location: Ambleside
The outdoors is becoming an increasingly important part of people's personal and professional lives; career opportunities and professional pathways are opening up every day in the fields of environmental study, education, development training, outdoor skills training, leisure and recreation. This innovative 3 year degree combines academic and practical study of the outdoors to meet personal and professional development needs and aspirations.
Foundation Degree in Outdoor Studies
(Full-time or Part-time)
Location: Ambleside
Foundation Degrees are new initiatives to combine academic study with vocational relevance. Key points:
* 2 years full-time or 3-5 years part-time. The chance to 'earn and learn'
* Entrance requirements of one A2/ACVE/'A' Level + GCSE Maths and English. Mature students over 21 are welcomed with experience and non-standard qualifications
* Partnership with the Outward Bound Trust
* Placements in outdoor centres and other outdoor and environmental organisations
* The School of Sport and Outdoor Studies has a good record of employment and links in the outdoor industry.
Adventure Recreation Management BA (Hons)/DipHE
Location: Ambleside
The globalisation of travel has provided unlimited opportunities to quench that thirst on journeys of personal discovery and pleasure. From the thrill-seeking gap-year student to the retired executive getting off the beaten track and experiencing the real world is the way to travel in the 21st century.
Adventure is big business much of it provided by specialists possessing a track record of success gained from their personal adventure travel experiences. Competent, personable professionals are needed to ensure safe and secure exciting experiences professionals who know their business, can work under pressure and keep a smile on their faces!