Year three in the Sport Major sees a subtle shift in requirements. Less focus on general education courses, and more courses in the major. If a student-athlete were to go pro after this academic year (for example, in football or baseball), then obviously the journey would end here, but the student would have enough credits accumulated that if they decided to return to school later it would be primarily for major field courses with only minimal general education left over.
Principles of Economics
Sports Finance
Sports Psychology
Sports and Media
Junior Year Seminar
Principles of Economics would be a general survey course that covers basic macroeconomics, microeconomics and international economics. A global perspective will be incorporated into the course so that students understand the big picture, even if it is just a survey course.
Sports Finance would allow students to build on their prior coursework in accounting and apply it to the study of financing in the sports realm. Understanding ownership issues, financing and taxation would be a part of the course.
Sport Psychology provides an introduction to the theories and research surrounding sport and exercise psychology and behavior of athletes.
Sports and Media would focus on the development and evolution of the coverage of sports from newspaper to radio to television and the digital age. Advertising dollars, rights fees and exploration of the partnerships between broadcast networks and the leagues/conferences they cover.
Junior Year seminar will focus on starting to prepare to exit college, whether that means going on to graduate school, entering the workforce on the business side or entering a professional league.
Semester 2:
Sociology of Sport
Sports Law
Economics of Sports
Natural Science
Sociology of Sport would be focused on the theories and research analyzing the relationship between sports and society. Organizational theory would be included in this course, or at least an introduction to org theory. Group dynamics would be part of the course as well.
Sports Law would serve to educate students on the basic laws, rules and regulations that apply to the sports industry. Basic labor relations law, antitrust law, and contract law.
Economics of Sports would dovetail with the Sports Law. Salary caps, ticket pricing strategies, labor market fluctuations, and how economic analysis can be used to examine these issues.
The Natural Science requirement is to satisfy general education requirements. It can be a lab or a non-lab science; another science course will be taken in the fourth year.
Year four and five. This is not necessarily the final year in the program, especially given that student athletes have five years to play four. This year has the final required courses for the major, or rather, the final electives. The courses listed here, outside of leftover general education requirements, are not a comprehensive list of classes that may be offered.
Instead of giving a semester by semester breakdown, here is the pool of courses that students could choose from. A senior year seminar would be taken the first semester of the fourth year, and a second general education course to satisfy a natural science requirement. Students would have free electives to utilize as well in order to get up to the minimum required for graduation by their parent institution.
Ethical Issues in Sports
Sports Agencies
Race and Sports
Violence in Sports
Sports and Gender
Contemporary Issues in Sports
Sports Event and Facility Management
Intercollegiate Athletics
Professional Sports Industry
Sports Analytics
The last course taken by students would make up the final semester of enrollment when all other required courses have been completed. That final course would be either participation in a capstone project designed in conjunction with a faculty mentor as part of the senior seminar or an internship. This would be the only class undertaken in the final semester.
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