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**Course summary**
- Build your academic skills, gaining confidence in independent and creative thinking.

- Work in diverse teams, learning about academic writing, critical analysis and data sources.

- Develop specialist interests and explore sector-specific modules ready for the full degree.

- Explore theory and practice, as well as ethical and cultural elements of your subject.

The Foundation Year is suitable if you don't meet the entry requirements for an honours degree, or want extra preparation before starting a degree course. It introduces you to a broad range of ideas and concepts from across the subject of business. It is designed to give you the foundational knowledge that is necessary to start your chosen degree course and provides a shared learning experience with students across the University.

**How you learn**
There are a range of learning methods in the course to prepare you for your full degree route in Sheffield Business School.

This foundation year is specifically focused on the development of the academic skills needed to study at University. This includes: effective reading and writing, development of academically informed arguments, and utilising a variety of sources to develop critical analysis and discussion.

To enable you to develop and practise these skills you will be introduced to broad concepts and knowledge relevant to a range of different courses.

The majority of the learning involves developing your interest in professional practice and academic skills. You'll receive face-to-face feedback regularly to help you complete tasks and assignments set in seminars and independent study time.

In addition, you will be guided in each module via week-by-week content on the e-learning portal. This will provide you with directed learning materials and online reading lists. You will also undertake some IT-based workshops.

There is a wide variety of assessments used on the course such as tests, report writing, essay writing, poster presentations, project planning and reflective writing.

You learn through:

- Lectures

- Seminars

- Problem-based activities

- Group and individual work

- Dedicated tutor support

- Independent learning

Upon successful completion of the Foundation Year, you will progress on to the main award of this course.

**Applied learning**
The modules learning outcomes have been designed to map against the course learning outcomes, the assessment packages test appropriately the module learning outcomes and contribute to the assessment of the course learning outcomes. The assessment packages are varied in nature to develop a range of skills relevant to Esport professionals and ensure that individual learners have the opportunity to showcase their diverse strengths.

**Future careers**
The Esports industry is going from strength to strength with viewership set to more than double from 2019’s data (Streamhachet, 2023) it's an exciting time to be entering the industry.

Graduates could go into careers in many sectors – including:

Esports Team Manager/Coach
Esports Event Manager
Esports Marketing Specialist
Esports Content Creator/Streamer
Esports Analyst/Caster
Esports Entrepreneur
Esports Project Manager
Esports Sales Representative
Esports Operations Coordinator
Esports Talent Agent
Esports Public Relations Specialist