The minor in Sport Management is an interdisciplinary program that studies various aspects of administering a sports organization or program, including: legal issues, sociological concerns, and a variety of management functions. Students contemplating graduate school in Sport Management or a career in athletic management would be well suited for this program.
The requirement for the minor in Sports Management is the completion of 24 credit hours as follows (15 of which must be upper division):
I. Required courses:
Course ID | Course Title |
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MGMT-2301 | Management of Organizations |
SPMT-1312 | Sport in Society |
SPMT-3308 | Sport Management* |
SPMT-3309 | Legal Issues in Sport |
II. Community Service Experience:
Community Service combines volunteerism with pre-experience education and post experience reflection. An essential element of sport management is understanding the important role sport plays in society. As such, minors must complete a total of 50 community service hours. In order to successfully complete the requirement, students are expected to complete an average of 12.5 community service hours over four semesters.
Course ID | Course Title |
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SPMT-3000 | Community Service Experience* |
III. Six hours in elective Sport Management courses (to include no more than three hours in SPMT-3190, SPMT-3290, SPMT-3390, SPMT-3690, SPMT-3099, SPMT-3199, SPMT-3299, SPMT-3399, SPMT-3499, SPMT-3599 or SPMT-3699):
Course ID | Course Title |
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COMM-3357 | Sport Media (also listed as SPMT-3317)* |
PHED-1165 | Intramural Programming (also listed as SPMT-1165) |
SPMT-1165 | Intramural Programming (also listed as PHED-1165) |
SPMT-1306 | Sport Officiating |
SPMT-1314 | Athletic Facility and Event Management |
SPMT-2301 | Introduction to Sport Philanthropy* |
SPMT-3108 | Sport Sales Laboratory* |
SPMT-3314 | History of American Sport* |
SPMT-3316 | Leadership for Sport Professionals |
SPMT-3317 | Sport Media (also listed as COMM-3357)* |
SPMT-3319 | Sport and Sponsorship Marketing* |
SPMT-3320 | Strategic Management in the Sport Industry* |
SPMT-3321 | Tom Brown's School Days: Sport in London* |
SPMT-3190 | Directed Study in Sport Management* |
SPMT-3290 | Directed Study in Sport Management* |
SPMT-3390 | Directed Study in Sport Management* |
SPMT-3690 | Directed Study in Sport Management* |
SPMT-3099 | Sport Management Internship* |
SPMT-3199 | Sport Management Internship* |
SPMT-3299 | Sport Management Internship* |
SPMT-3399 | Sport Management Internship* |
SPMT-3499 | Sport Management Internship* |
SPMT-3599 | Sport Management Internship* |
SPMT-3699 | Sport Management Internship* |
SPMT-4301 | Organizational Theory in Sport Management* |
SPMT-4302 | Seminar in Contemporary American Sport* |
IV. Six elective hours from the following courses:
Communication and Marketing
Course ID | Course Title |
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COMM-3360 | Principles of Public Relations* |
COMM-3361 | Principles of Advertising* |
COMM-3364 | Ethics in Mass Media* |
HCOM-1333 | Public Speaking |
HCOM-3360 | Communicating in Small Groups and Teams |
HCOM-3362/BUSN-3311 | Organizational Communication |
MKTG-3381 | Consumer Behavior* |
MKTG-3382 |
Integrated Marketing Communications |
Business and Economics
Course ID | Course Title |
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BAT-3302 | Data Science* |
BAT-3303 | Business Analytics* |
BUSN-3314 | Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility |
ECON-3327 | Sports Economics |
ECON-3329/MGMT-3311 | Labor Economics and Labor Relations* |
FNCE-3301 | Corporate Finance* |
MGMT-3361 | International Management* |
MGMT-3371 | Human Resource Management* |
* This course has at least one prerequisite. See the course description for details.
Requirements
Students interested in the minor should contact the Director of the Sport Management minor.
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