Why study BSc (Hons) Sport Management transcript

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Sports management is such a great career to study because there's so many different pathways, whether you're interested in managing your own sports centre, whether you'd like to set up a business, or if you want to go into event organisation or sports development, there's so many different doorways and the whole point of doing a sports management degree, is once you graduate it gives you all those career pathways to follow. So what sets our Sports Management degree course apart from others, is the fact that we not only offer a traditional sports management program, but as well as that, in year two and three, you have an opportunity to progress into a different pathway if you prefer. So if you're interested in focusing on football and business, then there are specific option modules in the second and third year that you can go through, or if you're interested in looking at the wider and more diverse sport and leisure industry, we've got an outdoor and adventure pathway which gives you a number of different careers as well. What makes us unique, is that we offer a combination of traditional theory, so you study lots of different academic texts and theories and concepts all about sports management, but then you apply them in the real world, so we've got lots of different opportunities for you to undertake work placements, to liaise with guest speakers, to go on industry visits and so all that theory that you're studying, you can put into practice. We've got a network of employers that we work closely with in the community and we encourage you to try and get some paid or voluntary work experience.

Course Leader of BA (Hons) Sport Management, Dr Lynsey Melhuish is stood at the side of a sport hall. Throughout are cutaways to the sports building at Solent University, shots of groups of students working together in the university library, large groups of students training outside on a football pitch, students in kayaks on a lake, a person wind surfing, a students rock climbing, students in a lecture theatre listing to an academic, a student walking into an empty St Mary's Stadium in Southampton, and finally a screen showing lots of graphics of logos of partners to the BA (Hons) Sport Management course including; Boulder Shack Climbing Gym, Active! Nation, iFly indoor skydiving, Costwold Outdoor, Skern Lodge, Camp America, National Citizen Service, FTY, PGL, Surf Snowdonia, Zip World, Hoops Velo, Team Solent Kestrels, What the footie, Edmondo.

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The course has offered quite a lot of opportunities, just yesterday there was trip down to a sports like football centre, which was really good and really enjoyable, and then you got the opportunity to set up events like this and just gain the experience. So the facilities we've got, we've got like the sports halls like this, we've got the gym upstairs, we've got Test Park which has got like cricket, astroturf, pitches, rugby pitches, full size football pitches as well, so the facilities on offer at Solent are really high quality.

Student of BSC (Hons) Sport Management, Thomas Appleton is stood in the university sport hall with students playing basketball in the background.

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We think it's really important that you get as many different experiences as possible and as many different transferable skills, whether it's marketing, whether it's managing staff, whether it's event organisation, finance, business - all within the sport and leisure world.

Course Leader of BA (Hons) Sport Management, Dr Lynsey Melhuish is stood at the side of a sport hall. There are some cutaways to the Spark Building at Solent University and close ups of students working at computers.

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Being a student here is really fun, really enjoyable, I love the city, love Southampton, there's a lot to do, the people here are all really nice, all the teachers, all the tutors, everything's just all round really great.

Student of BSC (Hons) Sport Management, Thomas Appleton is stood in the university sport hall with students playing basketball in the background.

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It brings alongside the sport aspect and the business aspect. You learn so many different life skills, lots of things to do with running businesses, managing coaching teams, it's really yeah, got lots of opportunities.

Student of BSC (Hons) Sport Management, Eloisa Morgan is stood in the university sport hall with students playing basketball in the background.

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Upbeat music plays, then fades out. Cuts to graphic that says, 'Get ready for university', www.solent.ac.uk, fades down, and fades up Solent University logo. [Video ends]