An investigation of the functions of management in terms of operating and financing public assembly facilities. Includes public and private arenas, coliseums, and stadiums.

An investigation of the functions of management in terms of operating and financing public assembly facilities. Includes public and private arenas, coliseums, and stadiums.

A presentation of the basic legal system, its terminology, and principles as applied to professional and amateur sports. Emphasis on identifying and analyzing legal issues, the ramifications of those issues, and the means of limiting the liability of sport organizations.

An introduction to the management of college athletics, including a review of the organizational structure in regards to the intercollegiate athletic department, conferences, and the NCAA. Analysis of the prevailing issues in college athletics including financial trends, academic recruiting legislation, conference realignment, reform, and Title IX/gender equity.

An overview of the business of sport, including career opportunities. A study of the value of professional management to sport organizations.

Marketing research is a fundamental component of any sport business decision. In this class we will discuss the various uses of marketing research, how to identify and utilize appropriate qualitative and quantitative research techniques, how to recognize effective and ineffective research, and how to appropriately interpret and apply the results.

This course is an advanced class designed for students of Spanish. It seeks to improve the students' communicative skills through a variety of written and oral activities. The oral assignments and writing tasks required of the student are those that reflect what the hospitality managers, supervisors and food service workers and professionals will face when communicating with Spanish clients.

This course is designed to develop oral and written skills in order to increase fluency in Spanish. Exposure to different aspects of Spanish language structure through a variety of written and oral practices. Satisfies Junior Year Writing requirement.

Fourth in the sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics.

Second of a sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics.