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Sport Management, B.S.


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Sport Management and Sport Marketing Majors


Requirements for the Sport Management and Sport Marketing Majors


Undergraduate Core Curriculum Requirements:


Students take 48 hours of core classes exclusive of those core courses required for the Sport Management or Sport Marketing major.  See Undergraduate Core Curriculum  .

Mathematics Requirement:


Major Requirements:


73 / 79 credit hours, distributed as follows:

Area 1 Sport Management / Sport Marketing Courses


21 to 27 hours from sport management/sport marketing curriculum.

Area 2 Sport Management Electives


Sport Management and Sport Marketing students take 9 hours of sport management electives. Choose from the following or select other classes to count toward a minor or double major.

Area 4 Communication Courses


12 hours from communication arts curriculum

Area 5 Sport Management Internship


9 hours of field experience required, including:

Note:


  • A 2.000 cumulative GPA must be attained in these major courses.

TOTAL Minimum Hours Required for Degree: 120 Semester Hours


B.S. Sport Management


Year 1


Fall Semester


  • SPMG 110 Intro to Sport Management                                               
  • Mathematical Perspectives elective                                                      
  • First Year Sem. (CORE100) OR Theology 111                                 
  • Introduction to Ethics (PHIL100)                                                          
  • Second language I                                                           
  • CORE 101

Total (15)

Spring Semester


  • SPMG 195 History of American Sport                                                    
  • COMM 101 Oral Communications                      
  • First Year Sem. (CORE100) OR Theology 111 
  • Composition or Rhetoric (ENGL101/115)   
  • Second Language II                                 
  • CORE 102            

Total (15)                                 

Year 2


Fall Semester


  • SPMG 132 Sociology of Sport                                    
  • ECON 200 (Soc. Sci elective)                                     
  • Historical Perspectives elective                                   
  • Scientific Perspectives elective                                  
  • Philosophical Perspectives (PHIL200)

Total (15)

Spring Semester


  • ECON 201 Macroeconomic Principles                                                     
  • Sport Management Elective                                
  • Nat. Sci. elective                                                       
  • Theological Perspectives elective                          
  • Creative Perspectives elective  

Total (15)

                        

Year 3


Fall Semester


  • SPMG 322 Facility and Event Management            
  • Choose from COMM 206 Writing for the Media, COMM 207 Interpersonal Communication, or COMM 211 Media Literacy               
  • SPMG 410 Sport Ethics (DCR elec)                         
  • Literature and Moral Imagination 205                       
  • MKTG 300 Principles of Marketing                        

Total (15)

Spring Semester


  • SPMG 310 Intro to Sport Marketing                                                      
  • Communication Arts Elective                               
  • BAIS 220, Managing Info Technology            
  • Humanities elective                                                
  • ACCT 200 Intro Financial Accounting           
  • SPMK Elective      

Total (18)                                       

Year 4


Fall Semester


  • SPMG 348 Legal & Ethical Issues in Sport  
  • BLAW 300  (E/RS elec.)                                    
  • Sport Management elective                                   
  • MGMT 200 Organizational Management                                           
  • General elective                                                                             
  • SPMK Elective 

Total (18)                                                   

Spring Semester


  • SPMG 495                                                                      
  • Sport Management Elective                          
  • General Elective  

Total (15)                                                  

Notes:


  • Some of these electives may double count with other core or major courses
  • All students must elect one each of oral communications, quantitative reasoning and writing-intensive flagged courses; many of these are available within the core or major.
  • A minimum of 120 credit hours is required for the degree.

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