Learning Outcomes
The mission of the Master of Science in Sport Management program is to maintain an academically rigorous curriculum that meets the common professional components of the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA). The curriculum is created and aligned with the ultimate goal of accreditation. While COSMA allows great flexibility in the learning outcomes of graduate programs in sport management, our goals and objectives are similar to those of the best programs in the country.
Graduates of Ohio Dominican’s Master of Science in Sport Management program are prepared to/for:
- Effectively apply sport management theory and best practices within a sport organization.
- Lead sport organizations ethically, based on an appreciation of Dominican values.
- Gainful employment in recreational, collegiate, professional, community, military or health-based sport organizations.
- Effectively ask questions and seek answers through the utilization of research methodology.
Graduates are able to:
- Analyze and critique the scope of sport in society, including how sport is shaped by culture, values, and psychosocial experiences, and how society can be influenced by sport.
- Critique decision-making in contemporary sport practices based on their personal ethical perspectives and Dominican values.
- Utilize fundamental concepts of consumer behavior in the sport industry to analyze how the sport product and market differ from a non-sport product or service.
- Synthesize and critique various management and leadership theories, and practices as applied to sport systems.
- Apply the concepts of liability and other tort and constitutional laws to address legal issues that impact the contemporary sport system.
- Apply financial management tools and principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics to the sport industry.
- Complete a research project by shaping a research question, reviewing the literature, gathering data and interpreting results.