Business Administration - Sport Management Concentration, B.S. (SPRT)
The Sport Management concentration is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge of evaluating the business impact of the sports industry. The concentration prepares students for careers in the sports industry, such as sports event manager, sports agent, athletic director/administrator, sports marketing manager, sports sales manager, and other related positions.
Upon completion of the concentration in Sports Management, students will be able to:
- Apply management, marketing, financial, sociological, and legal principles to the management of sport facilities, events, and organizations;
- Master the principles of leadership and management as applied in sport management settings;
- Understand the current status and various challenges to sport at the recreational, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional levels.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ACCT 224 | Financial Accounting | 3 |
| ACCT 225 | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BADM 110 | Information Technology for Business | 3 |
| BADM 160 | Management | 3 |
| BADM 170 | Marketing | 3 |
| BADM 201 | Business Law I | 3 |
| BADM 206 | Math Methods in Business and Economics | 3 |
| BADM 342 | Legal and Social Environment of Business | 3 |
| BADM 510 | Seminar in Business Policy | 3 |
| ECON 241 | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 242 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECON 316 | Statistics for Business and Economics | 4 |
| FINC 200 | Introduction to Finance | 3 |
| MATH 232 | Introduction to Statistics | 3-4 |
| or MATH 232E | Introduction to Statistics - Enhanced | |
| or MATH 232H | Honors: Introduction to Statistics | |
| or MATH 270 | Statistics and Data Analysis | |
| Required Support Course | ||
| COMM 306 | Business Writing and Presentation | 3 |
| Sport Management Required Coursework | ||
| BADM 240 | Issues in Sport Management | 3 |
| BADM 361 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
| BADM 386 | Sport Marketing | 3 |
| FINC 345 | Sport Finance and Economics | 3 |
| Select two of the following courses: | 6 | |
| Athletics Administration | ||
| Human Resource Management | ||
| Operations Management | ||
| Labor and Labor Law | ||
| Team Facilitation | ||
| Marketing Research | ||
| Marketing Communications | ||
| Managing Workplace Diversity | ||
| Special Topics in Business Administration | ||
| Independent Study in Business | ||
| Internship in Business | ||
| Managerial Finance | ||
| Fundamentals of Coaching | ||
| Sport Psychology | ||
| Sociology of Sport | ||
| Total Hours | 64-65 | |