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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the business of sport, including career opportunities. It will introduce the basic skills and competencies required to successfully manage in the sport management industry. The course will also utilize general management theory and principles which make direct application to the sport management field. Fundamental sport management principles and key skills as well as information on current issues are emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed to assist students in self evaluating, examining and developing a philosophy, values and moral reasoning skills. The development of a personal philosophy an understanding of social responsibility in the sport management setting are specific goals of this course. Topics covered involve aspects associated with professional ethics, rights and responsibilities, concepts of morality, developing a personal philosophy regarding social responsibility, theories of ethics, establishing a professional code of ethics, personal and management values.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a study of the sociological aspects of sport, athletics, and recreation in the American culture. It will include a survey of the history of modern sport, other forms of organized activity, and an examination of the social relations within the institution of sport and its role in the reproduction and transformation of society. Topics includes but not limited to socialization, stratification, gender relations, race and ethnicity and social change.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of sports marketing and promotion. The course will introduce the student to basic marketing concepts with application to sport organization, both amateur and professional. Topics will include promotions and public relations, sport consumer behavior, strategic marketing planning, marketing information management, marketing communications, sponsorship, media promotion, data collection and the economic feasibility study.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to identify and provide students with an understanding of the unique characteristics of sport related facilities, including planning, design, equipping and managing. One focus of this course is the many aspects of facility management: marketing, services and program day to day operations, documentation, fiscal management and trends. A second focus includes the planning for and design of these facilities. Other areas what will be discussed are event staging, security control and maintenance needs.
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3.00 Credits
Sport at all levels continue to grow in scope recognition and importance in the U.S. and abroad. As the growth continues, governance takes on increased importance at all levels of athletic competition. This course will deal with the growing spread and development of sport throughout the world, as well as how the governing bodies involved affect the structure, organization and delivery of sport. The students will become familiar with these agencies, their authority, organizational structure, and functions.
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2.00 Credits
The student, in consultation with the instructor, will select a topic or problem that he/she wishes to research in depth. The topic will include current issues in sport management and must be approved and sponsored by a faculty member.
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3.00 Credits
This course will enhance the student's knowledge about the legal system as it pertains to sport laws. A presentation of the basic legal system, its terminology, and principles as applied to professional and amateur sports. Emphasis is on identifying and analyzing legal issues, the ramifications of those issues, and the means of limiting the liability of sport organizations. Basic legal concepts concerning both contract and tort law in sport will provide the student a sound foundation so that the student will be better able to recognize legal liability and delivery of sport.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study how sport organizations develop financial strategies and utilize financial indicators in developing organizational strategic plans. There also will be an analysis of how economic models are used to measure the impact of sport on various economics. Students will learn there are established basic principles of behavior that characterize how people decide what to do. This course will introduce several basic principles of finance and economic behavior and show how they apply to the world of sports. Other issues that will be covered are industrial organization of sports, labor economics, public finance and the economics of amateurism and college sports.
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3.00 Credits
This course will be a study of the application of organizational theory to the understanding and management of sport organizations. Experience has shown the critical factor in promoting excellence in sport management programs has been the quality of the head administrator. The course will also deal with structure and design of sport organizations, sport organization effectiveness, management strategies, environmental influences, power and politics, decision making, organizing, motivation, planning staffing and supervising.
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