Required Courses for Sports Management

YEAR 1:

SPMA 1P91
Introduction to Sport Management
Micro aspects of management applied to sport, including human resources, sport marketing,
sponsorship, finance, event management, sport law, and related issues.

SPMA 1P92
Understanding Sport Industry Sectors
Macro aspects of the sport industry, including key actors, governance, funding, current research
and industry trends in public, commercial, and non-profit sectors.

SPMA 1P94
Professional Engagement for the Sport Industry
Introduction to communication competence and professionalism within the sport workplace.

SPMA 1P97
Research Design and Evaluation
Issues concerning the construction, administration and evaluation of data collection as well as the
processing and analysis of data.

BIOL 1F25
Biology: A Human Perspective
Contemporary issues of human concern, genetics and biology of cancer, learning, memory and
addiction, Parkinson’s Disease

ECON 1P91
Principles of Microeconomics
Introduction to microeconomics. Topics include nature of economics, price system, demand,
production and cost, markets and pricing, factor pricing and distribution of income.

FILM 1F94
Introduction to Film Studies
Critical and historical approaches to world cinema. Close analysis of selected films in relation to
their cultural contexts.

POLI 1P97
Politics and Sports
Examination of the place of sport in politics and society in a global context. Topics include
political economy, globalization, nationalism, militarism, gender, colonialism, race and ethnicity,
and transnational regulation.