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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of administrative problems in physical education, recreation and tourism or sport settings. Offered on demand. Grade only.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of professional literature and research in sport leadership and recognizing the fact that experience is a key ingredient in career success, this course includes an internship that provides students with an opportunity to link their academic preparation to professional practice. All Sports Management students are required to complete a minimum 50 hour internship experience. This experience is designed to provide our students with real world opportunities in a professional setting.
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3.00 Credits
Sport Sales Management focuses on a diverse set of operational and financial sales management issues that commonly present themselves to sport organizations. This course examines market fundamentals, operational processes and financial managerial principles that affect sport organization sales success. The student will gain operational and financial managerial knowledge and understanding of sales management issues relevant to advancement of the student's role in a sport industry organization. Grade only. Prerequisites: none. Graduate course. Offered yearly.
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3.00 Credits
This computer-assisted, self-mastery course teaches you how to employ good reasoning skills and how to avoid being fooled by bad reasoning and rhetorical tricks. Competencies acquired in the course include the following: Identifying, evaluating, and constructing arguments; identifying informal fallacies; testing syllogisms and propositional arguments for validity and overall cogency. Practice exercises and exams are done on computer. Offered each year.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to major areas in philosophy, considering some fundamental problems and concepts. Typical issues include some of the following: existence of God, what we can know, what reality is, how mind and body are related, whether we have free will. Traditional and intellectually chic theories on these or other topics are critically reviewed. Offered each year.
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3.00 Credits
A practical course in moral philosophy, involving concrete moral issues. Topics may include abortion, euthanasia, sexuality and sexual morality, feminism, discrimination and affirmative action, capital punishment, pornography and censorship, animal rights, world hunger, war and terrorism. Offered each year.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to inductive reasoning and how to avoid being tricked by faulty or pseudo scientific claims and arguments, and how to critically assess public policy in light of good scientific reasoning. Students study how to use experimentation and the scientific method to test theoretical, statistical, and causal hypotheses. Famous discoveries in the history of science are used as illustrations. Other topics include fundamental concepts of probability, sampling, causation, and correlation. Offered yearly.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to ethical theory and reasoning and their application to business decisions. Topics addressed are economic justice and the rights and obligations of employers, employees, and consumers. Issues include product liability, privacy, exploitation, and obligations to future generations and the environment.
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3.00 Credits
Examines basic issues in the philosophy of science such as the testing of hypotheses, the construction and confirmation of theories, the nature of scientific explanation and the concept of laws of nature. The course also investigates the distinction between science and pseudoscience, and asks to what extent each of these has driven recent policy on environment issues and school curricula. Offered each year.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory course, exploring issues concerning war, peace and terrorism from the perspectives of moral and political philosophy. Guest speakers provide further points of view. Topics normally include causes and justifications of war, conditions for peace, and whether terrorism is ever justified. Further topics may include issues concerning: conscientious objection, varieties of pacifism and nonviolent resistance, land mines, child soldiers, suicide terrorists, mercenaries, genocide, international arms sales. Offered yearly.
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