ESP (0855) 638 - Contemporary Issues in Sport Management

Credits: 3.00

Students will examine the character and position of sport business administration within a global marketplace. Specifically, students analyze administrative strategies utilized to resolve prevalent issues in amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional athletics in diverse environments.

Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Identify current issues relevant to sport administrators within professional, intercollegiate, interscholastic and amateur organizations.

2. Utilize critical thinking and problem solving skills to dissect contemporary sport management topics.

3. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact globalization has on sport administrators as well as athletes.

4. Identify ways to initiate organizational change and effectively manage conflict to address various issues that influence the sport industry and society.

5. Understand the current role of intercollegiate athletics within higher education.

6. Analyze the financial implications of an intercollegiate athletic program on higher education institutions.

7. Demonstrate an understanding of economic development as it relates to amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional sport organizations.

8. Identify the implications of using public funds to support professional sport franchises.

9. Analyze the impact of sports gambling on intercollegiate and professional sport.

10. Explain the role of gender equity within professional and intercollegiate athletic programs.

11. Explore the prevalence and impact of race on sport organizations.

12. Understand how and why current administrative practices are implemented to address issues and concerns within amateur, youth, interscholastic, intercollegiate, and professional sport organizations.