The use of economic analysis to analyze issues related to the sport industry. Topics include ticket pricing strategies, monopolization, players' labor markets, revenue-sharing, salary caps, competitive balance, and the subsidization of stadiums.

A study of basic marketing concepts with applications to sport organizations, both amateur and professional. Topics include promotions and public relations, sport consumer behavior, strategic market planning, marketing information management, marketing communications, and sponsorship. Prerequisite: MARKETNG 300 or 301.

In this course we search for the structure and enduring organization of college sports. We look for the development of college athletics that produced yesterday and today highly paid coaches, great fan enthusiasm, endless national media attention, and the opportunity for scandal and corruption. We search for the organic link that has bound intercollegiate sports to American higher education for over a century. This requires knowledge about what we were and what we have become. It is much easier to learn about what we have become than it is to learn about what we were.

Basic theory in finance and accounting applied to managerial control of sport organizations. Includes forms of ownership, taxation, financial analysis, feasibility studies, and economic impact studies.

This course builds upon Sport Marketing 321/623 through a more in-depth focus on the revenue-generation components of the sport marketing industry. The course is divided into two sections - retail-driven sales promotion and sport sales/sales management.

This course builds upon Sport Marketing 321 through a more in-depth focus on the revenue-generation components of the sport industry. This course is divided into two sections: 1) retail-driven sales promotion (with focus on the tactics that companies use to leverage sport sponsorship); and 2) sport sales and sales management (with focus on theory and practice of relationship selling). This course includes an experiential learning-based project in which students develop and present a sport-themed sales promotion to industry executives.

Course Topic- Sports Event Management

Taught by Mark McDonald

This course is designed to provide students with a foundational "road-map"
for starting a new business in the sports industry. The course will clearly and methodically outline the key issues, current thinking, problems, and solutions one will face over the course of an entrepreneurial venture or career. Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge base upon which to plan, launch, and grow an entrepreneurial venture; and/or be a contributing member of an entrepreneurial startup team.

Not available at this time.

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.