Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching
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Overview
Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching
Introduction
The Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching is an online, flexible learning qualification that enables students to fit Sport Coaching studies around their busy professional and personal lives.
The GradCertSpC will provide practising coaches and those employed in the sports industry the opportunity to develop their professional coaching skills. The GradCertSpC is also available to students who are not currently employed in the industry, but wish to develop skills and competencies to gain employment in performance Sport Coaching contexts.
The programme offers:
- a unique professional certificate that can be completed in a short timeframe
- strong practical element
- leads to a range of careers in Sport Coaching and related fields
- flexible learning option, allowing distance study.
Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching
Entry requirements
To enrol in the Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching you must have one of the following:
- an approved bachelor's degree, or equivalent, or
- satisfactory evidence that, based on relevant post-secondary school study and work experience, you are suitably qualified for entry.
Approval of entry based on post-secondary school study and work experience would be likely to include a minimum of five years of sport-related work experience and accompanying industry qualifications (for example NZRU Advanced Coaching Course Certificate, NZ Football Senior Level 2 Coaching Certificate, or Advanced Youth Coaching Certificate). Approval for course entry in this instance would be determined by a Selection Committee from Te Kura Mātai Hauora | School of Health Sciences.
One or more courses in this degree may also require vaccinations. Check each course page for more details.
If English is your additional language, you are also required to meet UC's English language requirements.
For the full entry requirements, see the Regulations for the Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching or use the admission requirements checker.
How to apply
You can apply online at myUC.
See Admission and enrolment for all information on enrolling at UC.
Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching
How do I plan my certificate?
To complete the Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching you must pass courses with a total value of at least 60 points, including a practical placement.
You may enrol full-time or part-time according to your interests and needs. Usually the Certificate takes 6 months full-time, or up to 3 years part-time.
For full requirements, see the Regulations for the Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching.
Distance study option
The Certificate offers the three compulsory courses as either online distance study or on-campus. If you would like all of your courses to be studied by distance, please ensure your elective course choice is also available by distance.
By enrolling in the GradCertSpC distance courses you will be supported through online resources, discussion forums, recorded lectures, slides, video tutorials, and other electronic media.
Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching
Subjects and courses
The qualification is a unique blend of practical application and theory which immerses you in the sociological, pedagogical, and scientific aspects of sport and sport coaching. Theory and practice are linked through the completion of the practicum course where you can select a performance sport coaching context according to your interests and areas of specialisation.
You will complete three compulsory 15-point courses, and one further 15-point course from 200 or 300-level Sport courses.
- SPCO301 Sport Coaching and Leadership
- SPCO302 Skill Acquisition in Sport
- SPCO310 Practicum 3
- One course chosen from these options
Domestic students
2024 tuition fee estimate: $3,374 (60 points)
2025 tuition fee estimate: $3,577 (60 points)
International students
2024 tuition fee estimate: $15,800 (60 points)
2025 tuition fee estimate: $16,400 (60 points)
2026 tuition fee estimate: $17,050 (60 points)
Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching
Further study
UC has students engaged in postgraduate Sport Coaching research at master's and doctoral level, under an Education or Health Sciences major.
You may also consider the Master of Sport Science to broaden your expertise in the sports industry.
Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching
Career opportunities
The Graduate Certificate in Sport Coaching will develop your knowledge and expertise in contemporary sport coaching skills and also gives you the chance to develop leadership and planning, strength and conditioning, performance analysis, rehabilitation and reconditioning, and nutrition skills.
Useful information:
- Read what other UC postgraduate students have gone on to achieve in their studies and careers in our student stories.
- Te Rōpū Rapuara | UC Careers can help you to achieve the career you want, connect with employers, or find a job.
- For research into career destinations by qualification, visit Te Pōkai Tara | Universities New Zealand website.
- Find out more about what can you do with a degree from UC.
- Come along to an upcoming information event for prospective postgraduate students.
