Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
SASM 3120 - Sports Governance and Ethics
This course focuses on governance structures in sport (e.g., professional, collegiate, youth, and Olympic), policy issues (e.g., hiring policies, eligibility issues, rules compliance), as well as sportsmanship and ethical decision-making.
Requisites: SASM 1001 or SASM 1010
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Ethics and Reasoning
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to demonstrate leadership self-assessment practices and mastery of leadership theory in a sport context.
- Students will be able to describe foundational elements of governance within sport organizations.
- Students will be able to analyze the governance and leadership structures of sport organizations at the amateur, collegiate, and professional levels.
- Students will be able to recognize one’s own ethical core beliefs and how they shape ethical conduct and thinking.
- Students will be able to discuss ethical perspectives, theories, and concepts.
- Students will be able to evaluate ethical issues.
- Students will be able to apply ethical perspectives, theories, or concepts to decision-making situations within the sport governance contexts faced by sport managers.
- Students will be able to evaluate alternative ethical perspectives within a decision-making situation in sport.
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