PSYCHOLOGY AND COACHING IN SPORTS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the basic aspects of sport psychology and its place in both the broader field of psychology and in the field of coaching. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify and critique several psychological constructs that are often addressed in sport settings. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the interrelation of psychological constructs in coaching. Audience: Graduate 4. Evaluate psychological constructs across diverse sports settings, including differences in developmental stages, sports, race, gender, culture, and geography. Audience: Graduate 5. Synthesize best practices relating to their own area of coaching interest. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop key strategies to be utilized in their own coaching settings, including identifying team members’ signs of risk, how to best coordinate with key collaborators, how to manage one’s own stress, etc. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the basic aspects of sport psychology and its place in both the broader field of psychology and in the field of coaching. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify and critique several psychological constructs that are often addressed in sport settings. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the interrelation of psychological constructs in coaching. Audience: Graduate 4. Evaluate psychological constructs across diverse sports settings, including differences in developmental stages, sports, race, gender, culture, and geography. Audience: Graduate 5. Synthesize best practices relating to their own area of coaching interest. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop key strategies to be utilized in their own coaching settings, including identifying team members’ signs of risk, how to best coordinate with key collaborators, how to manage one’s own stress, etc. Audience: Graduate