Cricket Management PG Cert

Program Overview

The Cricket Management PG Cert Program is an eight-month online program designed for professionals in the cricket industry. It focuses on the ethics, governance, diversity, and development of cricket, equipping students with the knowledge and skills to work at local, national, and international levels. The program includes modules on history, diversity, and ethics, as well as cricket development, and offers a top-up option to a Sport Management Postgraduate Diploma or MSc.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Focus: Cricket's ethics, governance, diversity, history, heritage, and its political, social, economic, and cultural contexts.
• Target Audience: Professionals already working or aspiring to work in cricket.
• Level: Postgraduate certificate
• Learning Mode: Online distance learning
• Duration: Eight months part-time
• Start Date: September 2024
• Objectives:
• Equip students with knowledge and expertise to work in cricket at local, national, and international levels.
• Develop a critical and analytical approach to critical issues in cricket management.
• Foster understanding and appreciation of cricket development from grassroots to elite level.
• Create a strong community of globally diverse students.
• Offer a top-up option to Sport Management Postgraduate Diploma (UK) or MSc (UK/international).

Outline:

• Modules (2):
• History, Diversity, and Ethics in Cricket
• Explores contemporary landscape in cricket, focusing on ethics and diversity.
• Addresses historical development and critical contemporary analysis of the sport.
• Encourages critical thinking on political, social, and cultural aspects of cricket.
• Assessed through a strategy proposal and an essay.
• Cricket Development
• Introduces principles of sports development with a focus on cricket.
• Explores how cricket engages with concepts like increasing participation, minimizing barriers, and coaching/support.
• Focuses on grassroots cricketing community and development partnerships.
• Examines the role of effective communication in cricket development programs.
• Assessed through the creation of a development plan.
• Structure:
• Online lectures, readings, assessments, and access to DMU Library resources.
• Weekly contact with module leaders via email or MS Teams.

Assessment:

• Strategy proposal and essay for "History, Diversity, and Ethics in Cricket" module.

Teaching:

• Flexible learning: 15 hours/week of study including online lectures, VLE engagement, reading, and writing.
• Access to learning technologies like VLE, MS Teams, and Digital Student Skills Hub.
• Support from library staff for academic writing, research, etc.
• Equitable and inclusive learning approach (Universal Design for Learning) for all students, including those with disabilities.

Careers:

• Potential careers:
• Sport development within governing bodies, federations, clubs, sponsors, etc.
• Marketing, media, public relations
• Local/central government, legacy/heritage organizations
• Guest speakers: Showcase diverse career opportunities in the sport industry.
• Employability skills embedded in curriculum.

Other:

• Fees:
• UK students: £3,160
• EU/International students: £5,260

• **Application guidance document provided.

• **DMU has been shortlisted for Postgraduate Award in 2024 Whatuni Student Choice Awards.