SOCIAL ISSUES IN SPORT ADMINISTRATION

Catalog description

This course examines the social significance of sport through a management and organizational lens, emphasizing its implications for sport business and administration. We will examine how historical shifts, legal frameworks, and governing bodies dictate the contemporary nature of play and competition. The curriculum moves through the core tensions of the industry, from commercialization and labor to the ethical complexities of performance enhancement and violence. By analyzing issues of racial and gender equity alongside institutional codes of ethics, students will develop a critical framework for understanding sport as a complex business enterprise that both reflects and influences broader societal values and principles.