Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
SASM 4500 - Bobcat Sport Consulting
This course allows students to apply the principles and concepts of sport management and to demonstrate critical thinking, planning, research, and ethical decision-making skills required of sport managers. This course applies a variety of key business concepts towards effective decision-making in the sports and entertainment industry. This capstone features an industry project with a live client in the continental United States that is funded by each individual student. A local option (Athens-based) is offered for those who are unable to travel at no additional cost.
Requisites: Sport management major and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Ethics and Reasoning, Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to adapt and apply discipline-specific skills, abilities, theories, methodologies or experiences gained in one situation to a new situation in the sports and entertainment industry.
- Students will be able to create client deliverables using a format, language, or visual representation in ways that enhance meaning in the sports and entertainment industry.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts in the field of sport and entertainment.
- Students will be able to critically state, describe, and consider the issue associated with their assigned client project.
- Students will be able to use information from industry and academic related source(s) to develop a comprehensive analysis and/or synthesis for the assigned sport client.
- Students will be able to state a specific position (i.e., perspective, thesis, or hypothesis), conclusions and related outcomes throughout the sport industry client deliverables.
- Students will be able to identify one’s own ethical core beliefs and how they shape ethical conduct and thinking in sport and entertainment.
- Students will be able to recognize, evaluate and connect multiple ethical perspectives within decision-making situations related to the sports and entertainment industry.
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