Graduate Certificate in Athletic Administration

This course is an introduction to sports-related legal issues and concepts. Its focus is on providing an overview of the major legal issues associated with sports, sports management, and the sports industry. Students will conduct research, read, and write on issues associated with the sports legal industry. Topics include but are not limited to discrimination, legislation, regulation and rights, competition, contract, labor, tort and trademark law, and administrative, antitrust and constitutional law.

This course is a study of one of the most complex professions in higher education – college sports administration. The topics include leadership and management roles in sports administration, college sports finance and budgeting, student-athlete issues, association regulations and guidelines, and other issues focused on the array of sports disciplines, coaches, and programs at the collegiate level.

This course is a study of one of the most complex professions in secondary education – high school athletic administration. The topics include leadership and management roles in sports/athletic administration, high school sports finance and budgeting, student-athlete issues, association regulations and guidelines, and other issues focused on the array of sports disciplines, coaches, and programs at the high school level.

This course is a study of the leadership, management, finances, politics, human resources, legal, and other issues associated with community and other local level sports and recreation programs. The course includes discussion of societal, aesthetic, economic, and other aspects of local sports and recreation programs.

This course focuses on sports event management, to include legal, financial, promotions, public relations, leadership, and human resources associated with events management across a number of sports disciplines, to include professional and amateur events.

This course focuses on the entrepreneurial opportunities in the sports industry, to include sports management, sports franchise, sports agency, and small sports business management professions and programs. The course focuses heavily on the business plan, financial, and planning issues associated with entrepreneurial and small business ventures. Students will develop their own entrepreneurial sports plan as an independent research project for this course.