Program Overview

Programme Overview

The BA Option: Sport and Leisure in Society is a three-year full-time programme aimed at those interested in careers in the sport and leisure industries. This programme provides a broad knowledge base, equipping graduates with the understanding and 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, and mass participation, sports coaching, and facilitating psycho-social wellness through sport and leisure.

Admission Requirements

• 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.
• The above-mentioned is not applicable to selection programmes.
• 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.
• The Admission Committee of the Faculty of Humanities will consider these students once the results of the National Benchmark Test (NBT) are available and depending on the availability of space.
• The Faculty will assess satisfactory performance in the NBT in the light of its commitment to ensure that an appropriate proportion of the applicants will be drawn from the historically disadvantaged category of the population.
• Applicants with an APS of 30 but who do not comply with the subject requirements must write the NBT.
• Life Orientation is excluded when calculating the APS.

Minimum Requirements for 2016

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

Programme Structure

The programme consists of fundamental, core, and elective modules. Fundamental modules include Academic Information Management, Academic Literacy, and Introduction to Literature in English, among others. Core modules cover aspects of sport and recreation management, sports coaching sciences, leisure and recreation, and sport psychology. Elective modules offer a range of options from languages (Afrikaans, English, German, French, etc.) to subjects like History, Geography, and Sociology.

Core Modules

• First Year:
  • Foundations of Recreation and Sports Management
  • Leadership in Sport and Recreation
  • Foundations of Sports Coaching Sciences
  • Teaching and Learning in Sport
  • Foundations of Leisure and Recreation
  • Sport in Society
  • Foundations of Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology
  • Psychology of Sport Coaching
• Second Year:
  • Sociology of Work: Globalisation
  • Gender, Family and Households
  • Demography, Health and Society
  • Cultural Sociology
  • Sports Facility and Event Management
  • Business and Governance of Sport
  • Sport Tourism
  • Sport Development
  • Applied Sport Psychology
  • Psychology of Well-being in Sport
• Third Year:
  • Social Theory
  • Labour Studies
  • Rural and Urban Sociology
  • Sociology of Religion
  • Theoretical Frameworks in Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Psycho-social Issues in Sport
  • Sport and Leisure in Community Development
  • Sport, Recreation and Social Change

Elective Modules

A variety of elective modules are available, including but not limited to:

• Afrikaans
• English
• German
• French
• History
• Geography
• Sociology
• Introduction to isiNdebele Grammar
• Sepedi for Beginners
• Setswana for Beginners
• isiZulu for Beginners

Academic Literacy

The academic literacy of all students who enrol at the University of Pretoria for the first time and all new students enrolling with the Faculty of Humanities for the first time will be assessed at the start of the academic year by means of their NSC marks. Students identified as being at risk in terms of their level of academic literacy are compelled to obtain at least 12 credits in the academic literacy modules.

Notes

1. 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.
2. Students will be required to obtain a Community Recreation Leader Certificate in YSL 110 at their own cost as part of the degree requirements.

General Regulations

The General Regulations (G Regulations) apply to all faculties of the University of Pretoria. It is expected of students to familiarise themselves well with these regulations as well as with the information contained in the General Rules section. Ignorance concerning these regulations and rules will not be accepted as an excuse for any transgression.