SE101-4-FY-CO:
Professional Skills and Development 1
2025/26
Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences (School of)
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 02 October 2025
Friday 26 June 2026
30
19 March 2025
Requisites for this module
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BSC C600 Sports and Exercise Science,
BSC C602 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C606 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Placement Year),
BSC C611 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Foundation Year),
MSCIC690 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Placement Year),
MSCIC691 Sports and Exercise Science (Including Year Abroad),
MSCIC699 Sports and Exercise Science,
BSC C603 Sports Therapy,
BSC C604 Sports Therapy (Including Placement Year),
BSC C605 Sports Therapy (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C607 Sports Performance and Coaching,
BSC C608 Sports Performance and Coaching (Including Year Abroad),
BSC C609 Sports Performance and Coaching (Including Placement Year),
BSC C614 Sports Performance and Coaching (Including Foundation Year)
The content of this module enhances key scientific and academic abilities that supports students across all years of study, and provides initial preparation for students' aspired careers.
The four key focuses of this module are:
1. Professional skills: students learn some of the key professional competencies often expected of graduate scientists, including Excel skills, searching for and interpreting research literature, and assessing its value.
2. Research design: students explore design components such as sampling, study design, reliability, validity, and ethical approval.
3. Data analysis, presentation, and interpretation: students learn about data distributions, how to test hypotheses through statistically analysing data, and appropriate graphical presentation.
4. Employability: the module enhances students’ personal development in preparation for placements and employment opportunities in future careers. It includes input from careers experts and culminates in the creation of a portfolio of employability documents (e.g., personal statement).
The aim of the module is to develop academic, scientific and professional abilities relevant to the study of sport, rehabilitation and exercise sciences, and professions related to it.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Demonstrate ability to search for, understand quality of, interpret and reference research literature.
- Use Microsoft Excel to perform basic data processing and information retrieval tasks;
- Demonstrate understanding of research design;
- Understand and demonstrate ability to apply the concepts of validity and reliability to research;
- Understand school ethics, risk assessment and consent forms as appropriate for working with human subjects;
- Select the correct statistical test(s) to analyse data, perform analysis using specified software and interpret and report the test results;
- Demonstrate competence in data presentation including using Microsoft Excel to present data graphically;
- Develop a CV, personal statement and skills portfolio.
No additional information available.
This module will be delivered via a mixture of teaching methods including lectures, computer lab classes and seminars.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Research Design and Ethics Applications Assessment (via Moodle) |
|
25% |
| Coursework |
Professional Skills Task-based Assessment (via Moodle) |
|
25% |
| Coursework |
Data Analysis, Presentation and Interpretation Task-based Assessment (via Moodle) |
|
30% |
| Coursework |
Employability Portfolio |
|
20% |
Additional coursework information
Professional Skills computer task-based assessment (25%)
Research Design and Ethics Applications assessment (25%)
Data Analysis, Presentation and Interpretation assessment (30%)
Employability Portfolio (20%)
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Callum Morgan, email: callum.morgan@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Callum Morgan, Dr Benedict Low (all staff for Personal Tutor programme events scheduled within this module)
SRES Office, email: sres (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address)
No
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Dr Jen Burbage
University of Portsmouth
Associate Head (Students)
Available via Moodle
Of 33 hours, 2 (6.1%) hours available to students:
17 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
14 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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