SPMT 200: Introduction to Sports Management

Course Description

This course will provide students with an overview of sport management and leadership concepts and practice. Course content will represent a variety of sport management concepts, segments, theories, and applications. Topics include the history of sport management, youth, community and scholastic sport and recreation, professional and international sport, the relevance, and practice of managerial and leadership concepts within sport, typical settings and opportunities for sport leaders, diversity and ethical issues in sport, sustainability practices in sport, as well as a discussion of sport management education and research. Topics will be presented, explored, and measured through a combination of lectures, discussions, readings, videos, guest speakers, individual and group activities, quizzes and exams. (F, W, S).