How to Win: The Psychology of Sport and Performance (C8573)

15 credits, Level 6

Autumn teaching

Elite sport is a high-stakes and high-pressure environment where careers are often defined by success. Despite this, athletes and teams demonstrate sustained high-level performance.

On this module, you’ll examine modern sport psychology theory to explain how athletes and teams win in such extreme conditions.

You’ll explore:

• theory and research around individual performance, such as confidence, motivation and resilience
• group and team processes, including leadership, cohesion and identity.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 128 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Psychology (with a professional placement year) BSc
• Psychology BSc
• Psychology with Business and Management BSc
• Psychology with Clinical Approaches BSc
• Psychology with Criminology BSc
• Psychology with Neuroscience BSc