Course Category: Sport Administration
Students will be given an overview of the components involved in sports programming and athletic administration. These include, but are not limited to: the history of sport and sports administration, legal issues, ethics, marketing, facilities, and leadership skills.
This course will cover topics including the NCAA and other athletic organizations, their member divisions and conferences, athletic department administration and the responsibilities of the athletic directors, coaches and their staff, and management of student-athletes from multiple perspectives.
Prerequisites
BA 210
BA 210
The purpose of this course is to explore the basic concepts and principles of sports marketing as it relates to strategic planning, marketing analysis, legal considerations, and media concerns. This course will also focus on concepts as they relate to sports marketing such as licensing, sponsorship, advertising, public relations, and consumer behavior.
Prerequisites
MKT 208
MKT 208
This course will introduce legal concepts and how sports administrators will apply these concepts into their management of personnel, events, facilities, athletic programs, governance issues, and marketing as well as conducting basic legal research. Types of law discussed will include, but not be limited to, tort, contract, intellectual property, liability and negligence, and constitutional laws.
Prerequisites
BA 302
BA 302
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the knowledge and foundational principles pertinent to the planning techniques concerning indoor and outdoor facility development used for college Athletics, sport, recreation and physical education.
Prerequisites
BA 210
BA 210
This course will be an introduction to the principles and practices of the business and management of international sport. This emerging field deals with transnational and cross-cultural issues including but not limited to international politics, cultures, economics, law, marketing, ethics, monetary polices and foreign competition. It will create a greater awareness and appreciation for working in a multicultural, multinational setting.
Prerequisites
BA 210
BA 210
This course will identify the structure and function of sport organizations along with the issues that sport managers will have to address. Where the power lies and how individual sport organizations fit into the greater sport industry play a critical role in how successful a sport manager will be in an ever more global sport industry.
Prerequisites
BA 210
BA 210
This course provides an overview of the components involved in sports programming and athletic administration. Specifically the course will focus on planning, organzing, leading and controlling sport situations.
This course will outline how legal issues intertwine with sport leader duties and responsibilities, and how to best use that information to make sound operational decisions.
This course is designed to provide students with a conceptual blueprint for teaching sport and the fundamentals associated with sports coaching to include theory of coaching, principles of physical training, and principles of sports management.
This course is an examination of major psychological theories and research related to sport and exercise participation and performance. It will provide information on topics such as motivational theories, cognitive theories, attribution theories, mental conditioning, and the team dynamics, performance enhancing strategies, and gender and cultural issues.
This course develops an understanding of, and analyzes highly effective performance training programs for any level of athlete. Areas of focus include basic physiology, periodization, nutrition, professional standards, high performance models and leadership.
This course is designed to examine in-depth current developments in specific areas of interest to the student within the coaching field. Content will be developed between the academic advisor and the student as requested on an individual basis.
This course provides a foundation in the principles of sales and revenue generation in the business of sport through a combination of theoretical fundamentals and practical application. It covers key sales and revenue generation elements such as the sport sales process, relationship-building, rapport, business to business selling, business to consumer selling, and more. Completion of this course will provide students with the essential skills to become successful sales executives in the field of sport.
This course will analyze and evaluate the management of sport facilities at all levels. Risk management and security issues, the history of the industry and financing will be discussed.