Students are given the opportunity to undertake an in-depth research exercise through the 'sports dissertation'. The programme has close links with the MA degrees in Management Studies, Sociology and Psychology. Hence, depending upon their initial choice of courses in first year, students will be able to change to one of these degree programmes during or at the end of their first and second year, should they decide not to major in Sport and Leisure Management itself. In the foundation years, students will be taking courses that are highly popular with other MA and BSc students, hence the lecture numbers are rather large. However, the MA Sport and Leisure Management students do have their own course relating to sport and leisure to take in second year.
Students have a broad range of options to choose from, once they are in the honours years.
The dissertation in fourth year enables students to pursue in greater depth a specific topic or issue which interests them. Overall, assessment on the programme is through a combination of continuously assessed written work and examinations. In the early years, teaching centres on lectures and tutorials with possibly some practical research work, entailing around 9-12 hours of taught work per week. Full-time students are expected to spend at least twice that time on private study. The University is a participant in several Erasmus exchange schemes with educational institutions from other European countries.