This course provides students fundamental knowledge and skills in designing and managing sport and recreational events and facilities. The course examines facility requirements and enhancements for both indoor and outdoor areas, planning for events from routine athletic schedules to special events and tournaments, scheduling of facilities and events, and equipment management, with attention to issues of liability and risk management.
This course examines regulations governing the sport industry including sporting association regulations, collective bargaining and codes of industry conduct. In addition, royalties, rights and licensing issues will be covered. Students are introduced to the laws which are applicable to the sport industry, including risk management and liability issues; facility, coaching, and employment contracts; ADA; Title IX; understanding the judicial system and litigation; labor law; duty of care; product liability; spectator issues; antitrust laws; and constitutional legal issues.
This course focuses on the application of the principles of finance to the sport and leisure industries. Students will examine various revenue sources for financing sport, including fundraising, sponsorships, public-sector financing, ticket sales, merchandise and concession sales, and licensing. Other topics will include budgeting, facility leasing and construction, business plan development, and the economic impact sport events have on communities. Prerequisite: FINA-331 or concurrent.
Experiential Learning: Internship (12 Credits) Non-classroom experiences in the field of business. Placements are generally off-campus, and may be full-or part-time, and with or without pay. Credit for experiences must be sought prior to occurrence, and learning contracts must be submitted before the end of the first week of the semester. A maximum of 15 credits of 287/487 can be used to meet graduation requirements. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for details. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. Graded CR/NC.
Courses on topics of interest to sport management students offered on the basis of need, interest, or timeliness. Prerequisites as determined by instructor. Restricted to students with freshman or sophomore standing. May be repeated for credit. For specific section description, click on the Section Details in VitNet.
The course provides an introductory description and interpretation of the historical development of sport from ancient civilizations to the present. Sport and its many forms will be examined including historical forces, institutions, and personalities which have shaped sport. The focus ranges from sport in early civilizations of antiquity including Greece and Rome to the amateur ideal and Olympism of the 20th Century; and from the influence of religious forces on the mind-body dichotomy to developments in college athletics and elite sport of modern times.
This course introduces students to the various functional areas of the sport management profession. Current trends and issues in the sport management industry are explored as well as the concepts, models and techniques leaders in the sport and leisure industry use to deal with ethical issues. It is recommended that students enroll in this course the spring of their freshman year.
Enterprises of all sizes, as well as business units within enterprises, need to continually improve to be sustainable. This often entails leading and managing strategic projects within the organization. Incorporating process improvement techniques such as Lean and Six Sigma into the project management approach can assist in making projects less costly, timelier, and evidence-based. In this course, students will be introduced to strategic project management and process improvement by developing a Lean project and completing the White Belt Certification in Lean Six Sigma.
Individual and independent reading, research, and writing under the guidance of a School of Business faculty member. Refer to the academic policy section for independent study policy. A written learning contract must be on file in the Office of the Registrar by the end of the first week of classes in the semester in which the course is taken. The contract must provide details of the topic, learning objectives, methods to be used, works to be completed, completion dates, grading criteria, and a prospective bibliography.
Experiential Learning: Internship (12 Credits) Non-classroom experiences in the field of business. Placements are generally off-campus, and may be full-or part-time, and with or without pay. Credit for experiences must be sought prior to occurrence, and learning contracts must be submitted before the end of the first week of the semester. A maximum of 15 credits of 287/487 can be used to meet graduation requirements. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for details. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. May be repeated for credit. Graded CR/NC.