Program Overview

Sport Management - Bachelor of Science in Sport Leadership and Management

The sport industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the United States. The sport management major provides many diverse career opportunities and has a strong job placement rate, thanks in part to the well-rounded education and practical experience students receive with internship opportunities and a required capstone practicum experience. This program prepares students to succeed in leadership positions in the sport industry (recreational to professional, youth to adult) by providing them with knowledge and skills to critically analyze and innovatively engage in the business and culture of sport. Students will complete courses that focus on topics such as administration, economics, ethics, facilities and event management, marketing, and analytics in sport. Students major in sport management may not major in sport coaching or minor in sport management.

Program Requirements

• Course List Code | Title | Credit Hours
  • SLAM Capstone: | 3
    • SLM 495 | Practicum in Sport Leadership and Management
    • or SLM 402 | Reflections and Actions in Sport Leadership & Management
• Sport Leadership Core Courses | 18
  • SLM 225 | Ethics in Sport
  • SLM 272 | Contemporary Perspectives on Leadership in Sport Contexts
  • SLM 275 | Principles of Sport Analytics
  • SLM 375 | Psychological Perspectives in Sport and Exercise
  • SLM 378 | Sport, Power and Inequality
  • SLM 472 | Sport Administration
• Statistics Course - Select One of the Following: | 3 - 4
  • ISA 125 | Introduction to Business Statistics
  • MTH 119 | Quantitative Reasoning
  • STA 125 | Introduction to Business Statistics
  • STA 261 | Statistics
• Sport Management Courses | 15
  • SLM 212 | Introduction to Sport Management
  • SLM 273 | Sport Communication & Media
  • SLM 413 | Sport Economics
  • SLM 416 | Sport Marketing
  • MGT 111 | Introduction to Business
• Business Courses Select Three: | 9
  • ACC 211 | Accounting for the Non-Business Major
  • ECO 201 | Principles of Microeconomics
  • ECO 202 | Principles of Macroeconomics
  • ESP 201 | Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business Models
  • FIN 211 | Financial Capital
  • ISA 211 | Information Technology and Data Driven Decision Making in Business
  • MGT 211 | Introduction to Management for Non-business Majors
  • or MGT 291 | Introduction to Management & Leadership
  • MKT 211 | Business Concepts in Customer Engagement
  • Or Select Miami Prime (all three courses are required)
    • BUS 301 | Basics of Business I
    • BUS 302 | Basics of Business II
    • BUS 303 | Business Process Integration
• Context of Sport Courses Select Four: | 12
  • SLM 246 | Sport, Management, and Culture in the Global Marketplace
  • SLM 248 | Global Sport Perspectives
  • SLM 274 |
  • SLM 276 | Current Issues in Leisure and Sport
  • SLM 279 | Race, Nation, and Sport
  • SLM 338 | Psychosocial Aspects of Coaching
  • SLM 340 | Internship
  • SLM 414 | Facilities and Event Management in Sport
  • SLM 417 | Legal Issues in Sport Leadership and Management
  • SLM 418 | Applied Sport Analytics
  • SLM 453 | Seminar in Sport Leadership & Management
  • SLM 473 | Children and Youth in Sport
  • SLM 475 | Women, Gender Relations, and Sport
• Remaining Credits are Electives
• Total Credit Hours | 60-61