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Sport Marketing, B.S.


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Sport Management and Sport Marketing Majors


Requirements for 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:


9 credit hours from the following:

  • One Quantitative Reasoning Course (Cannot double count as a core mathematics course)
  • One Statistics course:
    • MATH 116 - Elementary Statistics OR
    • MATH 156 - General Statistics
  • One elective core mathematics course

Major Requirements:


73 / 79 credit hours, distributed as follows:

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:

Area 6 Sport Marketing Majors ONLY


6 credit hours of Marketing Electives.

Note:


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

 

TOTAL Minimum Hours Required for Degree: 120 Semester Hours


B.S. Sport Management / B.S. Sport Marketing


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 - Microeconomic Principles
  • Historical Perspectives elective
  • Scientific Perspectives elective
  • Philosophical Perspectives (PHIL 200)

Total (15)

Spring Semester

  • ECON 201 Macroeconomic Principles 
  • Nat. Sci. elective 
  • Theological Perspectives elective
  • MGMT 200 - Organizational Management
  • MATH 116 - Elementary Statistics OR MATH 156 - General Statistics

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)
  • MKTG 300 - Principles of Marketing
  • BAIS 220 - Management of Information Technology

Total (15)

Spring Semester


  • SPMG 310 - Intro to Sport Marketing
  • Communication Arts Elective
  • Humanities elective
  • ACCT 200 - Intro Financial Accounting
  • ENGL 205 - Literature & Moral Imagination
  • Sport Marketing Elective (Sport Marketing Majors ONLY)

Total (15 OR 18)

Year 4


Fall Semester


  • SPMG 348 - Legal & Ethical Issues in Sport
  • BLAW 300 - Legal Environment (E/RS elec.)
  • Sport Management Elective
  • Creative Perspective Elective
  • Communication Arts Elective
  • Sport Marketing Elective (Sport Marketing Majors ONLY)

Total (15 OR 18)

Spring Semester


  • SPMG 495 - Internship in Sport Management (9 Credit Hours)
  • Sport Management Elective
  • Sport Management Elective
  • CORE 499 - Core Capstone (0 credit hour)

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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