16 courses with the subject SPM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SPM 230Introduction to Sport Management3.00
This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts and theories in sport management including management, marketing, finance and economics, sociology and psychology, professional, youth, high school, college and community sport. There will also be a focus on for-profit, non-profit, and international sport. Furthermore, career development in sport, sport legal issues, sport communication, facilities management and research methods will be explored.
The sport management practicum is designed to expose students to work within real sport management settings within intercollegiate athletics. Students will obtain practical experience working in a supervised-on campus sport setting prior to enrolling in the internship course. In conjunction, weekly course meetings offer an opportunity for students to learn, compare, contrast, analyze, and evaluate their experiences in various settings. Students will be required to acquire 60 clock hours of practicum experience. (FORMERLY PED 233).
This course will provide students with basic and fundamental principles, practices and procedures used in the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of sport marketing theory and techniques as they apply to the specific needs of the sport industry. (Formerly PED 331).
This course will discuss functions of management viewed in terms of types of facilities and the kinds of sports staged. Included are coliseums, municipal and college stadiums, country clubs and resorts, YMCAs, and athletic clubs. Detailed, practical background on the principles and practices of public assembly facility management and event promotion will be provided. (Formerly PED 333).
161 This course will provide students with the traditional and innovative revenue acquisition and generation methods and techniques available to the sports practitioners and sport organizations. Moreover, the course will provide the student with sport economic principles and theories necessary to make pragmatic and critical decisions. In addition to conventional income source, such as tax support, ticket sales, concessions and fund-raising strategies, tactics, and procedures, students will receive instruction in more recent innovations related to sport financing. (Formerly PED 334)
This course provides an overview of how sport is organized, managed, funded, and governed across the world. It also examines the economic, cultural, sociological, and political role that sport plays within the broad process of globalization.
3 Programs 3 PED 332 Kinesiology and Biomechanics 3 3 PED 237 Introduction to Athletic Training 3 3 SPM 436 Sports Psychology 3 3 SPM 434 Sport & Law 3 3 Total Hours 21 3 Sports Medicine Minor 3 A Sports Medicine minor is required to take 19 credit hours of courses, 3 of which BIO 143 Intro to Biology I may be used to satisfy General Education requirements. As a part of these course requirements, students are required to complete 100 hours of clinical observation with 3 a certified athletic trainer (50 hours in PED 237 Introduction to Athletic 3 Training and 50 hours in PED 437 Athletic Injury Care and Prevention). Other courses may be deemed appropriate (such as PSY 131 General 3 Psychology I) with the approval of the student’s advisor and Department 3 Chair. If students are placed into courses lower than the starting 54 courses indicated, they will have to take additional hours to meet these prerequisites. Course prerequisites are described in the course descriptions. Sports Medicine minors must also complete the following coursework and earn at least a grade of C in each course. Code Title Hours
The first of two formal courses that facilitate the writing of the Senior Investigative Paper for Sports Management students. Students complete a proposal for their paper as an outcome of the course. To accomplish this, students learn research methods and strategies necessary to complete an acceptable proposal.
This course is designed to provide the students with skills and competencies in sports information, including sports statistics, press releases, public relations, sport promotion, etc. in amateur and professional sports. (Formerly PED 339)
This course teaches theories concepts, principles and skills of leadership for managers in the sports industry who must influence others to get things done. Styles of successful sport coaches and managers will be examined and analyzed in the context of their times and their settings. It will introduce students to the constitutions and by- laws of various agencies governing sport at the high school, collegiate, amateur, and professional levels. Special emphasis is placed on how governmental agencies influence and sanction sport organizations and the route of appeal of a decision by a governing body.
This is the second of two formal courses that facilitate the writing of the Senior Investigative paper (SIP) for Sport Management students. The purpose of the course is to expose students to significant issues,
A supervised internship in a professional work environment which will provide the student with exposure to the job market in sport-related businesses and public health agencies. Each student will be responsible for 120 hours of work and be required to present detailed descriptions of work activities and experience.
Basic knowledge and understanding of the law as it applies to amateur and professional sports is the focus of this course. Students identify, analyze, understand legal issues, and discuss the ramifications of those issues. (Formerly PED 434)
This course offers an introduction to the sociological and ethical issues prevalent in the sport industry. The values of sport and the bases for ethical decision making and moral significance will be discussed. Students will also gain an understanding of the philosophical and ethical background of the sport context.
This course focuses on the study of the motivational phenomena that affect the performance of individual athletes and teams. Stress and leadership characteristics of coaches, athletes, and sport management professionals will also be studied.
SPM 490Special Topics in Sport Management1.00-3.00
An occasional or experimental course focusing on a specific topic designed to provide advanced study in an area of special interest in sport management. This course is an elective and is available to qualified students upon recommendations from the academic advisor and the instructor. This course may be repeated for additional credit.
