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. 

Requirements for the minor

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 IDCourse Title
MGMT-2301Management of Organizations
SPMT-1312Sport in Society
SPMT-3308Sport Management*
SPMT-3309Legal 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 IDCourse Title
SPMT-3000Community 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 IDCourse Title
COMM-3457 Sport Media (also listed as SPMT-3457)* 
PHED-1165 Intramural Programming (also listed as SPMT-1165) 
SPMT-1165Intramural 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-3314History of American Sport* 
SPMT-3316 Leadership for Sport Professionals 
SPMT-3457Sport Media (also listed as COMM-3457)* 
SPMT-3319 Sport and Sponsorship Marketing* 
SPMT-3320Strategic Management in the Sport Industry*
SPMT-3321Tom Brown's School Days: Sport in London*
SPMT-3190Directed Study in Sport Management*
SPMT-3290Directed Study in Sport Management*
SPMT-3390Directed Study in Sport Management*
SPMT-3690Directed Study in Sport Management*
SPMT-3099Sport Management Internship* 
SPMT-3199Sport Management Internship* 
SPMT-3299Sport Management Internship* 
SPMT-3399Sport Management Internship* 
SPMT-3499Sport Management Internship* 
SPMT-3599Sport Management Internship* 
SPMT-3699Sport 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 IDCourse Title
COMM-3460Principles of Public Relations*
COMM-3461Principles of Advertising*
COMM-3364Ethics in Mass Media*
HCOM-1433Public Speaking
HCOM-3360Communicating in Small Groups and Teams
HCOM-3362/BUSN-3311Organizational Communication
MKTG-3381Consumer Behavior*
MKTG-3382 Integrated Marketing Communications
PHIL-2450Philosophy of Games and Sports

Business and Economics

Course IDCourse Title
BAT-3302Data Science*
BAT-3303Business Analytics*
BUSN-3314Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility 
ECON-3427Sports Economics 
ECON-3429/MGMT-3411Labor Economics and Labor Relations*
FNCE-3301 Corporate Finance*
MGMT-3361International Management*
MGMT-3371Human 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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  Jacob Tingle, Ed.D. (Program Director)

 

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