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BS - Sports Management
What is a Sports Management degree?
Whether you want to be a team manager, athletic program director, or a sports information specialist, you can get there with a sports management degree from Florida Tech. Here, you'll develop a strong background in leadership and get hands-on experience in modern management strategies and sports industry best practices.
Our program is dynamic yet focused. You'll get started right away, taking core courses like Intro to Sports Management and Sports Psychology as a freshman. Guided by highly qualified faculty who care about your success, you'll hone your strengths and begin specializing as early as sophomore year.
Beyond the classroom, sports management majors build leadership experience through exciting internships and participation in academic organizations like Delta Mu Delta (national business society), the Society for Advancement of Management, athletics, and over 100 other student organizations.
As a senior, you'll complete the practicum in business, a professional internship course in which you apply your sports management skills and savvy within a dynamic local company. As a result, you get practical experience, an expanded professional network, and perhaps even a pre-graduation job offer.
Employers that have recruited Florida Tech sports management degree students for internships and careers include Clear Channel Communications, Merrill Lynch, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the Boston Red Sox. Many business administration majors go onto graduate school (often at Florida Tech) to pursue their MBA.
Curriculum
Curriculum program plans shown reflect current degree requirements. Previous academic year requirements can be accessed from the catalog page by choosing the appropriate academic year.
Bachelor of Science in Sports Management
| Major Code: | 7569 | Degree Awarded: | Bachelor of Science |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery Mode(s): | Classroom | Location(s): | Main Campus - Melbourne |
| Admission Status: | Undergraduate | Age Restriction: | No |
The Bachelor of Science in Sports Management program is a four-year program that blends management practices with communication skills and the study of sports psychology and organizational behavior.
Students are required to complete a research project that analyzes an industry within sports, entertainment, recreation, leisure or communication, as well as 150 hours of field practica related to some aspect of the sports management curriculum.
Candidates for a Bachelor of Science in Sports Management must complete the minimum course requirements as outlined in the following curriculum.
Freshman Year
| FALL | CREDITS | |
| ASC 1000 | University Experience | 1 |
| BUS 1801 | Global Business Perspectives | 3 |
| BUS 2303 | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| COM 1101 | Composition and Rhetoric | 3 |
| MTH 1701 | College Algebra | 3 |
| Restricted Elective (Science) | 3 | |
| 16 | ||
| SPRING | CREDITS | |
| BUS 1601 | Computer Applications for Business (CL) | 3 |
| BUS 2304 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| COM 1102 | Writing About Literature | 3 |
| MTH 1702 | Applied Calculus | 3 |
| Restricted Elective (Science) | 3 | |
| 15 | ||
Sophomore Year
| FALL | CREDITS | |
| BUS 2211 | Introduction to Financial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 2703 | Statistics for Business | 3 |
| COM 2225 | Writing for the Media | 3 |
| HUM 2051 | Civilization 1 | 3 |
| PSY 1411 | Introduction to Psychology | 3 |
| 15 | ||
| SPRING | CREDITS | |
| BUS 2212 | Introduction to Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| BUS 2601 | Legal and Social Environments of Business | 3 |
| BUS 3501 | Management Principles | 3 |
| COM 3440 | Public Relations | 3 |
| Humanities Core Course* | 3 | |
| 15 | ||
Junior Year
| FALL | CREDITS | |
| BUS 3401 | Corporate Finance | 3 |
| BUS 3504 | Management Information Systems | 3 |
| BUS 3509 | Introduction to Sports Management | 3 |
| BUS 3601 | Marketing Principles | 3 |
| PSY 2446 | Sport Psychology | 3 |
| 15 | ||
| SPRING | CREDITS | |
| BUS 3503 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
| BUS 3611 | Entertainment and Sports Marketing | 3 |
| BUS 3999 | Research 1 (Q) | 1 |
| COM 3070 | Professional Communication for Executives | 3 |
| Restricted Elective (Sports Management**) | 3 | |
| 16 | ||
Senior Year
| FALL | CREDITS | |
| BUS 4000 | Research 2 (Q) | 1 |
| BUS 4702 | Business Strategy and Policy | 3 |
| BUS 4783 | Practicum Planning | 0 |
| Restricted Electives (Sports Management**) | 9 | |
| 13 | ||
| SPRING | CREDITS | |
| BUS 4001 | Research 3 (Q) | 1 |
| BUS 4502 | Organizational Behavior and Theory | 3 |
| BUS 4701 | International Business | 3 |
| BUS 4786 | Major Field Practicum | 3 |
| Restricted Elective (HUM) | 3 | |
| Restricted Elective (Sports Management**) | 3 | |
| 15 | ||
TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED 120
| *Humanities Core Courses | |
| HUM 2052 | Civilization 2: Renaissance Through Modern |
| HUM 2142 | World Art History 2: Early Modern to Post-Colonial |
| HUM 2212 | British and American Literature 1 |
| HUM 2213 | British and American Literature 2 |
| HUM 2331 | American History: Pre-Columbian to Civil War Era |
| HUM 2332 | American History: From Reconstruction to the Present |
Not all humanities core courses are offered online or every term; check the current schedule of classes for humanities core options.
**A list of approved sports management electives is available from the Nathan M. Bisk College of Business.