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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Senior standing and admission to the major or permission of department chair. Focuses on governance issues involved in the management of amateur (interscholastic, intercolle-giate, recreational, olympic, and paralympic) and professional sport. Regulatory powers, strategic management, policy development, organizational structure, and sanctioning within the varying na-tional governing bodies will highlight the course.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SPB 449 This internship involves actual work in a sport business setting in the senior year in which manage-ment practices are applied. Directed and evaluated by a qualified faculty member with appropriate supervision by an on-site professional. This is a pass/fail course. Number of credit hours (6, 9, 12) determines number of hours worked (20, 30, 40) per week. The duration of the internship is 13 weeks with prescribed start and end dates. Note: This course is taken only by students who entered the University prior to the Fall 2004 semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ACC 202, MAT 128, and MGT 325, senior standing, and admission to the major; or permission of department chair. Other School of Business majors may take with all of the stated prerequisites excluding admission to the major. This course focuses on the financial status of varying sport industry sectors and strategies that an organization might use in controlling organizational costs, including how to implement and handle salary caps in the varying leagues. Ticket, group, sponsorship, food service, and broadcast sales as well as fund development will be a major emphasis in this class.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SPB 350 and senior standing or permission of department chair. Pre-law minors with senior standing may take with permission of instructor. An in-depth look at certain constitutional amendments and statutory and administrative laws that apply to the sport industry and impact the work setting. Class discussion surrounding current issues will constitute a major portion of this class. A legal research paper is expected.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Senior standing, admission to the major, current enrollment in the last semester of coursework, and permission of department chair. The main purpose of the course is complete immersion into the sport business industry to prepare the student for the internship and entry-level job placement. Analysis of management issues, concepts, and strategies as applied to sport organizations, internship selection, and a comprehensive section on current issues in sport business constitute the bulk of this course. A paper and presentation are re-quired.
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisites: All required courses for the sport business major, 2.5 GPA, and permission of de-partment chair. Corequisite: SPB 496. This course is the culminating field experience, where a student works full-time for a minimum of 12 weeks with a site supervisor in an approved sport business organization. The field experience is in-tended as a culminating experience of the sport business curriculum. It will expose students to organ-izational structure and function, help them gain additional work experience, enhance their employ-ability skills, and expose them to other areas applicable to the specific area of sport business that they have selected. This course is a graded experience. The duration of the internship is 12 weeks, 40 hours per week.
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisites: All required courses for the sport business major, 2.5 GPA, and permission of de-partment chair. Corequisite: SPB 495. This course is the corequisite for SPM 495 and is designed as the portion of the internship for which all paperwork, Internship Portfolio, and the colloquium presentation at the completion of the intern-ship are graded.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission of faculty member and school dean/center director A variable-content course in social science that is designed for a specific class level: freshman (100) through senior (400). Topic to be covered is announced in advance of registration. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in mathematics (MAT 128 or above) Descriptive and inferential methods of statistical analysis emphasizing measures of central tendency, measures of variability, frequency distributions, correlation, and parametric and nonparametric tests of statistical significance. Inferential techniques include z and t-tests for single samples, t-tests for independent and correlated samples, confidence intervals, ANOVA, Pearson r, Spearman r, and Chi Square.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing A detailed examination of the techniques and methods of social research as they relate to sociologi-cal theory construction and to social work practice. The following themes are covered: hypothesis construction; formulating a research design; measurement; data collection methods; elementary and social statistical data analysis; and the ethics, politics, and uses of social research. Offered fall se-mester.
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