The online MA in sport coaching (MASC) program educates and prepares coaches of all sports and levels—as well as strength and conditioning coaches—to enhance athlete, team, or client performance. The MASC program delivers a comprehensive, flexible, and progressive curriculum with challenging teaching and learning strategies to a community of diverse learners, alumni, and networks. We aim for our graduates to be well-prepared, curious, and ethical scholar-practitioners and leaders who integrate diverse ways of knowing to solve personal problems, address social issues, and live meaningful lives. We offer an ideal blend of coursework in sport sciences and the psychological, sociological, and ethical aspects of sport coaching. Our student-coaches engage in interactive, student-centered coursework to gain practical skills for real-world settings.
Students benefit from faculty experts in coaching education and online teaching, and continually engage with a vibrant network of peers, coaches, and faculty dedicated to their success. As innovators and continuous learners, students graduate as quality scholar-coaches prepared to enhance performance ethically. Students value our flexible, comprehensive, and personalized curriculum designed by internationally respected faculty experts in coach education. The MASC degree requires a minimum of 46 quarter hours, equivalent to 33 semester hours.
Students can expect:
• Carefully crafted courses delivered fully online
• Hands-on experience to enhance students' practical skills.
• An advisor who is also a full-time professor in the program.
• Smaller class sizes; often 10-15 students per course.