IDR214 Coaching in Sports (Autumn 2025)
- ECTS Credits:
- 10
- Responsible department:
- Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences
- Course Leader:
- Rune Høigaard
- Lecture Semester:
- Autumn
- Teaching language:
- Norwegian (but some of the lectures may be taught in English)
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is connected to the following study programs
Teaching language
Recommended previous knowledge
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course, the student will
- have broad knowledge related to the role as coach and mentor
- have basic practical coaching and mentoring skills at individual and group level
- have insight into their own behaviour/role in order to establish good coach and athlete relationships
- have the ethical competence to understand and handle challenges that may arise in the role as coach and mentor
- be able to apply coaching theories and principles in sports contexts with different focuses
Contents
The course will provide a theoretical and practical introduction to coaching and mentoring in sport. Students will work with topics related to the role as coach and mentor. Through the course, students will gain an increased understanding of the coaching and mentoring role from a leadership perspective, as well as how coaching behaviour is linked to sports psychology topics. Furthermore, the students will gain an increased understanding of the coaching role in relation to how groups function.
The coaching role in a psychological perspective
- The coaching role and sports psychology
- Mental skills coaching
- Coaching of female and male athletes
The coach and mentor
- The mentor role in theory and practice
- Ethics in the role of coach and mentor
Leadership in sport
- The coaching role in a management perspective
- Identity management
- Transformational leadership
The coaching role in a group perspective
- Team development
- The triade - Coaches, teams and parents
Teaching and learning methods
The working methods will vary between lectures, practical work, seminars, basic groups, case work, group work and individual work. All teaching related to seminars and base groups is mandatory. See further information on Canvas.
Estimated student workload is 270 hours.
Examination requirements
Approved active participation in compulsory teaching.
Individual reflection logs must be approved.
See further information on Canvas.
Examinations
Individual practical-methodical oral exam of approximately 30 minutes duration.
The student must demonstrate/document his/her coaching and mentoring skills through a conversation with another student. The student will then be examined in relation to the demonstration and the course syllabus.
Assessment expression: Graded assessment.