| This course will focus on leadership, management, and organizational concepts in use in business today. It will expand the management principles of the last century, taking into consideration knowledge, behavioral, and technological changes that have recently occurred. The student will learn why and how quality improvements, visionary leadership, and customer-driven enterprises have caused change in business. This course also describes a new way to operate without control or compliance and thus improve service to the business organization, while maximizing corporation profit. |
| This course focuses on management and leadership of organizations and people in organizations. The course emphasizes the need to promote a shared vision, developing a collaborative work environment, fostering a learning organization, effective management/employee relationships, effective communications, interpersonal communications, win/win management, intrinsic motivation, effective work teams, and self- directed work teams. |
| This course describes the skills required as leaders encounter ethical dilemmas, process reasoned responses, confront daily and long-term ethical issues, and make a positive and progressive difference in their chosen field by relying on an ethical foundation. |
| Students will focus on self-assessment to determine their effectiveness as leaders and motivators in their environment. Emphasis will be placed on mentoring and development of subordinates and team building for maximum effectiveness. |
| This course will focus on how leaders effect change in their environments. They will also explore how to manage change. The chaos theory will also be covered at length. |
| Elements such as social change, ethics and value systems, attitudes, politics, perceptions, and personal agendas influence community leaders. This course will provide an overview and analysis of community development, structure, and management, and an examination of how leaders work to enhance their capacity to problem solve in their communities. |
| This course covers the elements of a non-profit organization that leaders must understand. The course will examine how non-profit leadership is influenced by factors such as funding, board governance, program development, evaluation and assessment, human resources, public and media relations, client services, government entities, politics, and partnerships and collaborations. |
| This course demonstrates the importance of leadership with regard to fiscal accountability and decision making. Emphasis will be placed on the leader’s responsibility for the planning, development, and oversight of financial resources within their control as well topics including, but not limited to, risk analysis, capital budgeting, financial statements, and deficit and surplus management. |
| This course will explore why the areas of conflict negotiation, management, and resolution skills are important for leaders. Minimization and management of conflict is important to the success of leaders to enable them to achieve their goals. In addition, this course will enable students to understand the nature of conflict and examine beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that are related to conflict. |
| The course stresses the importance of strategic planning as an important skill for leaders impacting organizational effectiveness and change. There are universally applicable models and theories for strategic planning. |
| This course will demonstrate the need for leaders to develop creative, visionary ideals that encompass a culturally diverse perspective in a global context. By looking at various cultures around the world, this course will give the student a perspective of what type of leadership models work in various cultures. |
| Independent Study. |
| Special Topics. |
Required classes in addition to the LDS core classes to obtain a concentration in Sport Management include (4 credit hours each):
| This course will explore, assess, and identify various organizational theories and structures and their application in sport environment. The course will examine the management process, including theoretical and philosophical aspects of management in a sport setting and review the role of character development in sport management. The course will also examine the importance of relationships within sport management, such as client, employee, and community relations, and analyze physical education, recreation, wellness, health promotion, sport and fitness as micro components in sport administrations as it relates to society as a whole. |
| This course will identify principles of finance specific to budgeting and operations in connection with business decision-making in various sport-related organizations. The course will expose students to various financial principles as they relate to professional, collegiate, and high school sport programs. In addition, this course will provide students with practical application of financial management, including principles and financial statements as they pertain to planning, administration, and reporting the financial performance of a sport-related organization. |
| This course provides an understanding of the American legal system with an emphasis on the resolution of sport business legal disputes by means of civil litigation, mediation, arbitration, and trial procedures. The course will examine the legal structure of the sport industry. This course provides an understanding of the laws affecting professional sports and provides a philosophical viewpoint of the ethics, professional codes of conduct, and ethical professional responsibilities of leaders in the sport environment. |
As part of course work in the major, every student will complete a culminating graduation requirement (CGR). The CGR requirement may be met by satisfactory completion of one of the following:
