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Programme Overview

The BA Sport and Leisure Studies Sports Psychology programme is a three-year full-time course aimed at individuals interested in careers within the sport and leisure industries. This programme provides a broad knowledge base, enabling graduates to understand and develop skill sets to interrogate, create, promote, lead, and manage the potential, promise, possibilities, and power of contemporary globalised sport and leisure.

Programme Information

This programme guides students toward specialisation in areas such as sports management, sports psychology, sport and leisure in society, or sports coaching sciences. It prepares graduates for employment in public or private sectors in contexts of commercialised and professional sport, sports development, community development, mass participation, sports coaching, and facilitating psycho-social wellness through sport and leisure.

Admission Requirements

• The following candidates will be considered for admission: a candidate who is in possession of a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required Grade 12 certificate with university endorsement; a candidate who is a graduate from another tertiary institution or has been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution; and a candidate who is a graduate of another faculty of the University of Pretoria.
• Candidates who achieved an APS of 30 in Grade 11 and comply with the minimum subject requirements and achievement levels of these study programmes will automatically be granted placement in the study programmes, subject to the availability of space.
• To retain admission, learners will be expected to obtain an APS of at least 28 in Grade 12.
• Prospective students who have already been granted provisional admission in these study programmes, but obtained at least an APS of 27 in Grade 12, will be considered by the Admission Committee should space be available.

Minimum Requirements

• Achievement Level | APS | Afrikaans or English
  • NSC/IEB | HIGCSE | AS-Level | A-Level
  • 5 | 3 | C | C | 30

Programme Structure

The programme is structured over three years, with a total of 444 credits required for completion.

Year 1

• Fundamental modules:
  • AIM 101: Academic information management 101
  • AIM 111: Academic information management 111
  • AIM 121: Academic information management 121
  • ALL 110: Academic literacy 110
  • ALL 125: Academic literacy for Humanities 125
  • UPO 101: Academic orientation 101
• Core modules:
  • SLK 110: Psychology 110
  • SLK 120: Psychology 120
  • SRM 110: Foundations of recreation and sports management 110
  • SRM 120: Leadership in sport and recreation 120
  • YCS 110: Foundations of sports coaching sciences 110
  • YCS 120: Teaching and learning in sport 120
  • YSL 110: Foundations of leisure and recreation 110
  • YSL 120: Sport in society 120
  • YSP 110: Foundations of sport, exercise and performance psychology 110
  • YSP 120: Psychology of sport coaching 120

Year 2

• Fundamental modules:
  • RES 210: Social research: Introductory methodology 210
• Core modules:
  • SLK 210: Psychology 210
  • SLK 220: Psychology 220
  • YCS 210: Fundamentals of human movement 210
  • YCS 220: Motor behaviour 220
  • YSL 210: Sport tourism 210
  • YSL 220: Sport development 220
  • YSP 210: Applied sport psychology 210
  • YSP 220: Psychology of well-being in sport 220

Year 3

• Fundamental modules:
  • RES 320: Social research: Methodological thinking 320
• Core modules:
  • SLK 310: Psychology 310
  • SLK 320: Psychology 320
  • YSP 320: Theoretical frameworks in sport and exercise psychology 320
  • YSP 310: Psycho-social issues in sport 310

Additional Requirements

• Students who are deemed to be at risk of their level of academic literacy are compelled to take ALL 110 and ALL 125.
• Students who are deemed NOT to be at risk of their level of academic literacy are compelled to take language modules to the value of 12 credits from the list of language modules.
• Students will be required to obtain an accredited Level 0/1 Coaching Certificate in one sport of choice in YCS 120 at their own cost as part of the degree requirements.
• Students will be required to obtain a Community Recreation Leader Certificate in YSL 110 at their own cost as part of the degree requirements.