Bachelor of Sport Development
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Sport Development |
| Deakin course code | M320 |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Online | Yes |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| Course Map - enrolment planning tool | This course map is for students commencing from Trimester 1 2025. Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| CRICOS course code | 058665B Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 7 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Professional recognition
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Mandatory student checks
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Work experience
- Fees and charges
Course overview
Think beyond the field with Deakin's Bachelor of Sport Development. Learn how to drive positive change through sport with our world-class facilities, academics and industry connections. With eight electives of your choice, design a degree that matches your focus and reflects the ever-expanding responsibilities of a profession which now sees graduates building the capacity of sport organisations in exciting new ways, including strategy, governance, policy and risk management.
Experience Australia's most innovative sport facilities including an AFL oval reminiscent of the MCG and a FIFA-grade soccer pitch. Study alongside established professionals while building hands-on experience and life-long contacts with over 150 industry connections, including Netball Victoria, the Melbourne Vixens and Geelong Football Club.
With the flexibility of both in-person and online study options, you can turn your love of sport into a rewarding career and graduate ready for Australia's golden decade of sport.
Want to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities through sport?
Become a leader in community sport by learning how to enhance a sport organisation's capacity to design and deliver sport. Develop the skills to facilitate the development and management of support personnel such as coaches, officials and volunteers. We will also teach you how to design funding applications and implement the programming that underpins community sport development covering topics such as inclusion, culture and diversity, integrity and safeguarding in sport.
Sport can have a positive impact on people and communities. If you want to work in a career that focuses on ensuring current and future generations experience these benefits, the Bachelor of Sport Development is for you. You will develop sport programs that improve health and social outcomes, and harness sport's capacity to bring people together in times of need. In particular, you will learn how sport can be used as a powerful tool to enhance and re-energise communities.
The study areas you will cover are relevant to the needs of the industry and give you a deep understanding of:
- sport systems and their management
- programs and pathways for participation and development
- contemporary health and community development approaches
- the organisation, management and governance of sport organisations.
Get practical experience developing all aspects of community sport management and leadership. Your studies will be enriched with real-world experience, and you will have plenty of opportunities to apply your skills inside and outside of the classroom.
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Indicative student workload
You can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include lectures, seminars, online interactions, or professional experiences for Work Integrated Learning (WIL) units. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Professional recognition
Deakin Business School holds the prestigious and globally recognised AACSB and EQUIS accreditations, which attest to quality, academic and professional excellence, ongoing improvement, innovation and graduate employability.
Career opportunities
This course will prepare you for roles in coaching, the leisure industry, and sports science and in the field of community sports development.
Career opportunities include:
- Community sports development officer
- community engagement officer
- club development officer
- participation coordinator/manager
- sport and recreation officer/manager
- sports coach
- sport development officer
- sport governance official
- sport policy officer
- sport program development officer.
Participation requirements
Units in this course may have participation requirements that include compulsory placements, work-based training, community-based learning or collaborative research training arrangements.
Placement can occur at any time, including during standard holiday breaks. Learn about key dates at Deakin.
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Mandatory student checks
Units which contain work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, working with children check or other check. These requirements will be detailed in unit guides upon enrolment.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities | Demonstrate core knowledge of the distinction between the development of and through sport by analysis and application of theory in sport development, coaching, and allied disciplines in order to provide effective management in the development and delivery of sport |
| Communication | Develop written, oral and visual communication skills around complex concepts for diverse stakeholders with interests in sport development and coaching including organisations in government and corporate sectors, and those involved in delivery of sport at community through to elite settings |
| Digital literacy | Select and use a range of digital technologies in appropriate ways to manage and disseminate relevant information to stakeholders engaged in sport development and coaching |
| Critical thinking | Demonstrate the ability to exercise reasoned judgement and reflection in relation to managing sport development and coaching |
| Problem solving | Identify and address issues, formulate solutions related to the development and design of sport policy, systems, pathways and practices to implement efficient strategic and operational outcomes for enhancing the development of and through sport |
| Self-management | Demonstrate skills to work independently and take responsibility for continuing professional development |
| Teamwork | Constructively engage in teams to contribute to collaborative outcomes and be able to take on roles towards demonstration of sound management of sport development and coaching |
| Global citizenship | Engage as a professional in the sport industry with the skills that are applicable to a variety of contexts (sport science, coaching, sport management) and issues (global, social, ethical, cultural) in the development of and through sport |
Course rules
To complete the Bachelor of Sport Development students must pass 24 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- HSE010 Exercise and Sport Laboratory Safety (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
- 16 credit points of core units
- 8 credit points of open elective units
- a maximum of 10 credit points at level 1
- a minimum of 6 credit points at level 3
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Compulsory 0-credit point units
To be completed in the first trimester of study:
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin |
| HSE010 | Exercise and Sport Laboratory Safety |
Core units
Foundation Units:
| MMS100 | Sport Organisation |
| MMS201 | Sport in Society |
| MMM240 | Organisational Behaviour |
| MMK101 | Marketing Fundamentals |
| MAA103 | Accounting for Decision Making |
| HSE111 | Physical Activity and Exercise for Health |
| HSE212 | Physical Activity Promotion and Evaluation |
Specialist Units:
| MMS102 | Introduction to Sport Development |
| HSE114 | Inclusive Coaching Practice |
| HSE305 | Issues in Sport Coaching |
| HSE214 | Developmental Approaches to Coaching and Officiating in Sport |
| MMS203 | Community Sport Leadership |
| MMS307 | Sport Facility and Event Management |
| MMS306 | Sport Industry Experience |
| MMS314 | Sport Policy and Development |
| MMS308 | Sport Marketing |
Open elective units
Completion of 8 credit points selected from undergraduate units offered by the University.
Recommended minors:
Subject to eligibility, the 8 credit points of electives may include one of the following minor sequences:
- MN-A000074 Indigenous Studies
- MN-M30008 Marketing
- MN-H000016 Exercise Science
- MN-H000014 Sport Coaching and Coaching Ecosystems
Work experience
This course provides students the opportunity to complete one or more work integrated learning units.
Explore Business and Law WIL opportunities.
International Students:
This course includes Work Integrated Learning (WIL) formally registered as part of the course on the CRICOS register. The total work integrated learning hours will differ depending on the WIL unit you choose. For more information about WIL hours, please check the unit information in the handbook or the unit guide.
For information about how WIL units may impact student visa holder work rights, please visit Home Affairs. See 8105 Work limitation.
Course duration
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as failing of units or accessing or completing placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.