Sports, Recre ation & Exer cise (Level 6)

Course details

This is a course designed to pre­pare stu­dents for a career in sports coach­ing, the sports and leisure indus­try or to pro­vide a path­way to fur­ther study.

Course Con­tent

• Sports Indus­try Practice
• Sports Nutri­tion
• Sports Psy­chol­ogy
• Soc­cer Coaching
• Health Pro­mo­tion
• Exer­cise & Fitness
• Life­guard­ing
• Train­ing Deliv­ery and Evaluation
• Fit­ness Instruc­tor (NCEF) — extra charge
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tions
• Work Prepa­ra­tion and Experience

Entry Require­ments:

Appli­cants must have suc­cess­fully com­pleted one of our three Level 5 Sports related courses.

Pro­gres­sion and Career Options:

Grad­u­ates may apply for entry to a wide range sports related of3rd Level Degree courses in Insti­tutes of Tech­nol­ogy nation­wide. Many of our grad­u­ates have pro­gressed directly onto Year 2 inDKIT and have said that the two years in DIFE served as a very solid foun­da­tion for their degree level stud­ies. Stu­dents who have under­taken the NCEF instructor’s qual­i­fi­ca­tion may work directly in the fit­ness indus­try as instructors.