School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Sport Leadership and Programming
  • Unit Code

    WCE1102
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Anthony KERR

Description

This unit focuses on program delivery and leadership in the Australian sport industry. Recreation programming concepts including the principles of program design, marketing and budgeting are examined. Major styles and theories of leadership are evaluated, and through practical application, the leadership skills of individuals in diverse sport and recreation contexts are appraised and developed. In this unit, the inclusion of diverse population groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and people with physical disabilities are emphasised and valued. Practical activities and workshops focused on inclusion further demonstrate and develop leadership attributes and diversity awareness.

Equivalent Rule

This unit is equivalent to SPM1102. SPM1102 was previously coded LSC1102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply programming design principles for diverse sport and recreation contexts.
  2. Use theories of leadership when organising and developing events for various sport and recreation contexts, including group settings.
  3. Explain why inclusive, safe and accessible environments are important across all diversity factors in sport and recreation programming.
  4. Apply reflective practice to evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses in varying leadership contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Program design and delivery considerations.
  2. Facilitation of group-based activities.
  3. Leadership theories and competencies.
  4. Strategic leadership, change management and culture.
  5. Communication, emotional intelligence and motivation.
  6. Diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias.
  7. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness.
  8. Accessibility, equity and inclusion of people with disabilities.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers from sport and recreation organisations are used to enhance the learning experiences of students by providing industry insights. Students are also required to undertake a professionally supervised, work-integrated learning experience of a minimum of 20 hours within a sport or recreation program for an industry organisation. The unit will be taught at Mineral Resources Park.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
PresentationLeadership Activity and Presentation
PracticumCareer Development Industry Critique and Reflection
ExerciseCase study exercise

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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