Special projects, studies, or research.

Special projects, studies, or research.

Special projects, studies, or research.

Special projects, studies, or research.

Special projects, studies, or research.

Special projects, studies, or research.

Special projects, studies, or research.

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the various segments within the sport industry. Students will assess their own personal and career interests and learn how to effectively research jobs, choose careers in line with those interests and market themselves to prospective employers.

Students in this course examine how analytics yields new insights across many facets of the sport industry, such as ticket pricing, facility management, player evaluation, and in-game decision making. The course emphasizes core skills needed to conduct basic analyses: data structuring, data shaping and manipulation, methods of statistical analysis, and data visualization.

Analysis of nature and scope of the sport enterprise; investigates organizational behavior within the management of sport organizations; explores the area of human resource management; examines contemporary social problems and the future of sport.