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• SPT 7800: Current Trends and Issues

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to identify, analyze, and evaluate current and future sport industry trends and issues that may affect a sport organizations ability to establish and maintain a competitive advantage.
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• SPT 7810: Sports Analytics

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The class will discuss the theory, development, and application of analytics in sports. Students will learn about the application of analytics in sports for purposes of personnel acquisition and management, marketing, finance, communications, and team management among many other topics. The class will consist of lectures, quizzes, threaded discussions, and practical applications.
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• SPT 7820: Economics in Sport

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course presents an application of economics concepts and issues relevant to the sports industry.Topics include: market structures and outcomes; barriers to entry; contraction and expansion; cooperative, competitive, and collusive behavior among participants; professional sports; collegiate and amateur sports: public policy, subsidies for new facilities, institutional rules, and tax policies, discrimination; and labor market imperfections.
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• SPT 7830: Strategic Sport Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to introduce the key concepts, tools, and principles of strategy formulation and competitive analysis. It is concerned with managerial decisions and actions that affect the performance and survival of sport industry organizations. It will focus on the theories of strategic management and their applicability to the sport industry, including strategic planning, decision making, implementation and controlling processes, understanding organizational effectiveness, and environmental analysis.
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• SPT 7900: Sport Governance

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide students with a knowledge and understanding of the power and politics of sport organizations that govern intercollegiate athletics. Students will learn and analyze how people involved in governance set the tone of an entire organization and how individual sport governance bodies fit into the greater industry. Emphasis will be placed upon the student's development of a working knowledge of what these organizations do and what their true purpose is in the administration of an intercollegiate athletic department.
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• SPT 7910: Sport Compliance

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide students with a knowledge and understanding of the necessary and mandatory compliance techniques of the major governing bodies of intercollegiate athletics to ensure institutional control. Emphasis will be placed upon an in-depth review and discussion of the various NCAA bylaw manuals, as well as NAIA rules and regulations.
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• SPT 7920: Legal Asp Equity Athletics

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide students with a knowledge and understanding of an in-depth of gender equity issues that are prevalent in an intercollegiate athletic setting. This course also covers the many legal issues dealing with equity in intercollegiate athletic. Emphasis is placed upon the development of an overall knowledge of Title IX and the various tests that have been implemented to ensure compliance.
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• SPT 7930: Dev Human Resource Str Athleti

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is designed to provide students with the latest human resource strategies to successfully address everyday problems that may arise with coaches, staff, and personnel of and intercollegiate athletic department. The student will develop a working knowledge of complex organizations and how this may affect the employees that he/she supervises.
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• SPT 7950: Mentorship

  0.00 - 12.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The sport mentorship allows the student to practice sport management theory in the practical setting while under the direct supervision of a recognized leader in the students chosen area of specialty in the sport industry. Course requirements dictate that students complete a minimum of 300 contact hours.
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• SPT 7990: Sport Management

  1.00 - 12.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is an analysis of leadership and managerial functions, concepts and practices used to foster interpersonal and small-group relations as found in sport organizations. Further, this course is intended to prepare students for the leadership decisions and actions that are inherent in Sports Management and as well as every-day life issues. Professional and personal growth is discussed at length and principles and applications of personal leadership practices will be explored. Techniques for managing change and empowering others also are included in this course. Topics related to effective leadership are issues of communication, motivation, delegation, team building, and quality improvement. Finally, students will have the opportunity to perform a Personal Leadership Development Plan. This culminating activity is designed to strengthen the students' leadership abilities and skills.
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