Graduate Business Core
BUAD 500 Managerial and Leadership Analysis
This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, whether a full company, department, division, or other strategic business unit within an existing organization by getting the right things done through teams of people. It addresses the common management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
BUAD 600 Organizational Behavior and Teamwork
This course responds to the increasing need for cooperative skills in concurrent design and engineering projects, interdepartmental committees, quality circles, self-managed work teams, and relationship selling. Self-awareness is the foundation of group dynamics. Areas to be covered include individual differences; personality; emotional intelligence; learning; ethics; decision making; and motivation. Group dynamics is understood to be a pillar of organizational success. Areas covered include communication; group dynamics; leadership; trust; power; and change. Both experiential and theoretical approaches are used to deepen understanding.
BUAD 650 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
A study of selected contributions in political theory and how they contribute to an analysis of public policy on the role of ethical implications of administrative activity and provides a theoretical framework within which responsible decisions can be made. It relates the ethical considerations and legal principles to the organization’s responsibility to society.
BUAD 665 Strategic Decisions
Effective organizations strategically design their mission, vision, structure, and operations to anticipate and respond to external threats, opportunities, and conditions. This course explains how organizations formulate, implement, and evaluate strategies that help ensure their sustainability and profitability. Students are required to present an oral and written case study relating to a pre- sent Fortune 500 company describing the past, present, and future organizational challenges and to recommend effective, productive actions along with an action plan for implementation.
MSAA Core
SPMT 500 Research Methods
This course in research methods prepares the student to understand issues associated with but not limited to the logic of the scientific method, research design, and qualitative and statistical analysis of data. Students will be afforded the opportunity to conduct research in the course on topics.
SPMT 510 Administration of Athletics
This course addresses leadership qualities, management styles, planning, policies, and problems of organization and administration of athletic programs and colleges. This course will discuss current issues and events in college athletics.
SPMT 520 Sports & Athletic Promotions
This course presents an overview of the various techniques and strategies used in meeting the wants and needs of consumers in the sport industry as well as understanding how sport can be used to assist in the marketing of other companies and products.
SPMT 530 Contemporary Issues in Sports
This course examines the relationship between sport, both professional and amateur, and society. Students apply critical thinking skills to analyze current sport-related controversies and gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between sports and global social issues such as gender, ethnicity, social class, economics, politics, and mass media.
SPMT 571 Fiscal Practices in Athletic Administration
An analysis of financial and economic aspects of professional and collegiate sports. This course will cover such issues as forms of ownership, formulation and development of operating budgets, financial forecasting, taxation, revenue production, risk, economic impact studies, financial planning for sports organizations and professional athletes and the economic impact of unions in professional sports.
SPMT 594 Special Topics in Sport & Athletic Administration
Course topics to include Sports Media and Communications; Sports and Athletic Promotions; Facility Design and Event Management; and Sports and Society.
SPMT 696 Athletic Administration Internship
Supervised sports management experience in a related setting. This course may be taken as a substitute for any one of the SPMT Core classes listed above.