Students will learn and utilize best practices in the field to create safe, positive and effective coaching environments while teaching technical and tactical sport skills. Group management, motivation skill progression, evaluation and feedback will be explored. An emphasis will be placed on writing and implementing practice objectives, as well as effective practice design and execution. This course will include weekly practical coaching sessions.

Overviews the various segments that make up the sport industry, including governing bodies, the mass media, sporting goods firms, players' and coaches' associations, public regulatory agencies, and secondary and higher education. Readings and discussions consider the development and structure of each segment. interaction between segments, legal issues, and policy implications. While the course will focus on the United States, there is some comparison to other countries.

This course examines leadership theories and behavior as it relates to the sport industry. Students will study leadership behavior as it relates to coaching, administering athletic departments or programs, and directing sport-related businesses. Additionally, this course will explore the ethical issues dilemmas, and ethical decision-making process sport managers face in professional, collegiate and interscholastic sport.

Experiential learning in a setting appropriate to the major option and to student's objectives. An 8 credit internship requires a minimum of 600 hours experience; fewer credits will require proportionally fewer hours. May be on- or off-campus with an approved organization. Student must participate in securing the internship. A journal, bi-weekly reports and a final paper required. May be repeated, with no more than 8 credits taken in any given semester.